Winding up ailing banks: timewasting
by Linda Sommerschütt Parliament’s negotiators on the proposed single resolution mechanism for ailing banks won its support on Thursday for the line…
Deutsche Bank AG
Spanish finance minister pitches a “country on the mend” scenario to MEPs
by Linda Sommerschütt Spain’s finance minister Luis De Guindos painted a bright picture of Spain’s economic progress in the Economic and…
Underlying the economic model is a deeper rooted contradiction
by Ralph T. Niemeyer In 2011 ECONFIN decided to have the Euro-zone taxpayers continue to “rescue” Greece, although the majority of citizens…
Pest or Cholera? Crash or Hyper-Inflation?
EU Economic & Currency Affairs Commissioner Rehn by Ralph T. Niemeyer The Eurogroup finance ministers are evidently completely in the hands of private…
Germany looses momentum
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) with President José Manuel Barroso by Ralph T. Niemeyer For quite a while Germany appeared to stand tall…
Economic governance: pressing need for legitimacy and social dimension
by Raulano Nagao MEPs and national parliamentarians concluded their conference on economic governance on Wednesday by calling for much better dialogue, ownership and…
Goldman Sucks
Greek Prime Minister Samaras and European Parliament President Schulz Samaras: no pressure by banks to privatise. Schulz: shadow banks can’t be regulated, only the…
Germany’s Euro-Apartheid
Will “Occupy Deutsche Bank” celebrate an even bigger comeback?! by Ralph T. Niemeyer During the crisis, Deutsche Bank AG has once again reported…
Women on company boards: go for 40% of non-executive posts by 2020, urge MEPs
By Martha Devon EU-listed companies should aim to ensure, by 2020, that at least 40% of their non-executive board members are women, so…
Landesbanken under attack
A Comment by Ralph T. Niemeyer For many years, German public Sparkassen and Landesbanken had a bad reputation, as they were branded…