Reforming EU audit services to restore investors’ confidence
by Richard Stahl A draft agreement between Parliament and Council on legislation to open up the EU audit services market beyond the dominant “Big…
Occupy Deutsche Bank
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…
yet another Smoke-Screen
The European Central Bank in December 2013 “Banking Union” once more provides loopholes bigger than in any Swiss cheese A Comment by Ralph…
Keep trade talks multilateral, MEPs and MPs urge WTO
The multilateral approach of world trade talks must “maintain its focal role”, and not give way to bilateral or regional deals, said European Parliament…
Candidate for boss of EU bank supervisor quizzed by MEPs
Danièle Nouy, the ECB’s nominee for the new post of EU bank supervisor, was vetted by MEPs on Wednesday at a hearing in which…
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…
Standard Poor, Granny Poorer…
by Ralph T. Niemeyer When the Polish EU Presidency and the European Parliament in October 2011 clinched a deal that beefed up standards for…
Why not hand over taxpayer’s funds directly to private banks?
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Whatever has been said about Euro-bonds, being rejected by the German government, has been proven illusory by the fact that…
Sachs, Deutsche, Rothschild, HSBC, UBS ruined Greece
by Ralph T. Niemeyer One thing becomes clearer every day: the debts won’t be paid back. nor those of debts Goldman Sachs, Deutsche…
The Great Depression – this time in technicolor
by Ralph T. Niemeyer American banks prepare for the state bankruptcy of the United States of America, the Financial Times writes and suggests…