September 2013 – Page 4 – Open Europe Blog

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Third EU legal opinion of the week, this time on banking union: bad news for Germany?

September 12, 2013

It seems to be a week for big legal opinions in the EU. We’ve had opinions on the FTT, the EU’s short selling regulation and now on the European Commission’s plan for a Single Bank Resolution Mechanism (SRM) – a key component of the banking union…

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banking union, European Commission, eurozone, eurozone crisis, germany, Merkel, single resolution mechanism, single supervisor

ECJ legal opinion marks important preliminary victory for UK in short selling dispute

The UK has this morning been set on the path to an important victory at the European Court of Justice, after the Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen supported the UK’s claim that the EU’s short selling Regulation transfers too much power to the E…

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ECJ, financial regulation, Financial Services, financial supervision, shortselling, UK-EU relations

State of the (same old) European Union

September 11, 2013

It’s that time of year again, when European Commission President José Manuel Barroso delivers his ‘State of the European Union’ speech, laying out all his hopes and dreams for the coming year – few of which make it through the decision making …

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banking union, barroso, eu, eurozone, political union, soteu, speech, state of the union

No fundamental change in eurozone policy after the German elections

Today we released an in-depth briefing on the German elections, and their implications on the eurozone. The top line: don’t expect any fundamental change in Germany’s eurozone policy after the elections.Of the nine proposals being floated to pull t…

Posted by Valeriy Kucheruk

AFD, angela merkel, austerity, Bundestagswahl, CDU/CSU, competiveness pact., debt-pooling, Die Linke, FDP, German 2013 federal election, Greens, SPD

The FTT is dying a death of a thousand cuts – this could be the final one

September 10, 2013

The EU’s Financial Transaction Tax has taken another big blow today – possibly a fatal one. A leaked legal opinion by the European Council’s legal service has warned that the current set up of the FTT pursued by 11 member states “infringes…

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eu treaty, European Commission, financial markets, financial regulation, financial transaction tax, FTT, legal service

Berlusconi’s swan song may not be easy listening for Letta

September has come, and summer is (almost) over – but the heat won’t leave Italy for a bit. The Italian Senate’s Immunities Committee has begun debating whether to strip Silvio Berlusconi of his seat as a result of his recent tax fraud conviction. As w…

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Beppe Grillo, berlusconi, eurozone, eurozone crisis, germany, italy, Letta, Mediaset trial, Merkel

The Dutch coalition is facing stormy waters

According to prominent pollster Dutch Maurice de Hond, just one year on from last year’s elections, the Dutch government coalition of the centre-right VVD and centre-left PvdA would lose more than half of its parliamentary seats if elections were …

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dutch elections, dutch politics, dutch subsidiarity review, eurozone, mark rutte, wilders

Some ratings still matter in the eurozone

September 9, 2013

A general view seems to have come to pass (and not without good reason), that ratings actions in the eurozone have much less significance these days. This is mostly because the ratings agencies tend to ‘lag’ the market – meaning that a downgrade only…

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credit rating, dbrs, downgrade, eurozone, Spain, Spanish bank bailout, spanish banks

Ireland prepares to exit financial assistance…with further assistance…

September 6, 2013

Talk surrounding the Irish exit from its bailout programme has been picking up in recent days and weeks given that it is supposed to get off its current bailout programme at the end of this year (the final disbursement of funds is expected sometim…

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banking sector, Dijsselbloem, esm, ireland, irish bailout, OMT

What could reform of EU free movement rules and access to benefits look like?

September 5, 2013

Tomorrow’s front page of the Times features an interview with David Cameron in which he drops a strong hint that one of his first priorities for EU renegotiation/reform will be tightening up EU free movement rules and EU migrants’ access…

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access to benefits, britain in europe, EU free movement, EU reform

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