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…
Taxpayers and Banks
too big to jail?!
Judges imposing their countries’ maximum penalties for serious offences such as manipulating the LIBOR benchmark interest rate would have to stipulate at least four…
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…
Link between Taxpayers & Banks
Launch of tough negotiations on final step to banking union by Richard Stahl Negotiators for Parliament and the Greek Presidency of the Council start…
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…
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…
Investment Protection becomes “Human Right”
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Just when Greece is expecting to be handed the next lifeline of €30 billion from the European Union and International…