- Italy, Lithuania, Austria and Spain risk breaking European Union rules with their 2016 budget plans, the European Commission declared today, stating that France might also come short of its fiscal targets.
- The Commission checks draft budget plans of eurozone countries every year to see if they are in line with the Stability and Growth Pact, which sets rules for EU budgets.
- Costs associated with Europe's migrant and refugee crisis are being treated as a special case.
- ETFs: EWP, EWI, EWQ, EWO, QESP, HEWI, HEWP