There’s a bit of a debate going on at the moment over whether splitting up the internal market portfolio in the next European Commission is a good or bad thing for UK interests. The idea is to separate financial services from the wider internal marke…
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britain in europe, EU financial regulation, European Commission, Financial Services, Michel Barnier |
Has the Liikanen report become the Barnier plan?Update 30/01/14 11:45:Some eagle eyed HM Treasury officials have flagged up that the recitals of the proposal (the preamble points before the articles of the regulation) do allow for the derogation to app…
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banking regulation, banking sector, banking supervision, Liikanen report, Michel Barnier, structural reform, Vickers, Volcker |
January 22, 2010
Michel Barnier – the man who was handed the crucial Internal Market portfolio in the Commission following a complete miscalculation by Gordon Brown – is definitely on the move. The job as the entire Single Market’s (and the City’s) Chief Regulator does…
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catherine ashton, eu foreign minister, EU foreign policy, Michel Barnier |
November 30, 2009
Further to Friday’s piece on the new EU Commission posts (described by Nicolas Sarkozy as a “victory” for France, who said the British were the ‘big losers’) it emerges that Jonathan Faull has been appointed as Michel Barnier’s right-hand man as Direct…
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November 23, 2009
Number 10 is facing growing accusations that Gordon Brown had ‘sold Britain down the river’ once again by giving up the influential EU trade portfolio currently held by the UK’s Cathy Ashton in return for the arguably less important external relations …
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