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2020	Policy impacting Finance
2020-12-28	Goldschmidt: 2021 will be the making or the undoing of the European Union.
2020-12-21	PIIE's Veron: Memo to the European Commission on the European Union’s contribution to international financial regulation and oversight
2020-12-18	ECON: COVID-19: deal to give go-ahead to the new Recovery and Resilience Facility
2020-12-17	Rule of Law mechanism applies without further delay as of 1 January, MEPs stress
2020-12-16	G30 Report: REVIVING AND RESTRUCTURING THE CORPORATE SECTOR POST-COVID
2020-12-16	Remarks by Paschal Donohoe following the Eurogroup video conference of 16 December 2020
2020-12-16	Eurogroup Statement on the Draft Budgetary Plans for 2021
2020-12-16	IMF: Glaciers of Global Finance: The Currency Composition of Central Banks’ Reserve Holdings
2020-12-11	Politco: EU leaders back deal to end budget blockade by Hungary and Poland
2020-12-11	SUERF: Is NGEU a game changer for the ECB’s role in fighting the fall-out from COVID-19 in the euro area?
2020-12-11	ECON:The proposed amendments to the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism
2020-12-11	European Council, 10-11 December 2020
2020-12-09	Bruegel: Thinking big: debt management considerations for the EU’s pandemic borrowing plan
2020-12-09	Bloomberg: Poland, Hungary Say Deal Struck on $2.2 Trillion EU Stimulus
2020-12-09	Federal Trust: Reflections on the future of Europe - Can the EU function as a democracy without forming a state? Jaap Hoeksma
2020-12-09	Fondation Robert Schuman : Tribute to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - a great European
2020-12-08	Codogno/Galli: The reform of the ESM is not perfect, but for Italy, it can only have advantages
2020-12-02	POLITICO: How Europe can bypass Poland and Hungary’s vetoes
2020-12-01	Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis at the ECOFIN press conference
2020-11-30	Commissioner Gentiloni at the Eurogroup press conference
2020-11-30	Video conference of the Eurogroup
2020-11-30	Governors and Heads of Supervision commit to ongoing coordinated approach to mitigate Covid-19 risks to the global banking system and endors
2020-11-27	CER: Judy Asks: Can the EU solve the budget and rule-of-law crisis?
2020-11-25	IMF Blog: Time is Ripe for Innovation in the World of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
2020-11-25	EPRS: InvestEU programme: The EU's new investment support scheme
2020-11-25	EP: EU consumers will soon be able to defend their rights collectively
2020-11-25	MEPs call on EU leaders to end MFF deadlock without giving in on rule of law
2020-11-25	ECB review sees increased medium-term vulnerabilities for corporates and banks
2020-11-20	Project Syndicate - Soros: Europe Must Stand Up to Hungary and Poland
2020-11-18	European Parliament: Recovery and Resilience Facility: MEPs ready to start negotiations
2020-11-18	Statement by EP Conference of Presidents on long-term EU budget and Rule of Law
2020-11-18	Commissioner Dombrovskis: European Semester Autumn Package
2020-11-17	EURACTIV: Hungary and Poland veto stimulus against pandemic
2020-11-16	ECB: de Guindos - The euro area financial sector in the pandemic crisis
2020-11-16	EURACTIV: McGuiness - Finance: becoming green while in the red
2020-11-13	Bruegel: Next Generation EU payments across countries and years
2020-11-11	EP COVID-19: first go-ahead given to the new Recovery and Resilience Facility
2020-11-11	EP: Long-term EU budget deal: a “win-win” result to face the challenges ahead
2020-11-11	Project Syndicate: The Case for an EU Development Bank
2020-11-11	Next Generation EU: Europe needs pan-European investment
2020-11-09	EURACTIV: Hungary’s Orban threatens EU budget veto over rule-of-law
2020-11-06	Vox: Economic rebound interrupted: Key features of the Commission’s Autumn 2020 forecast
2020-11-04	2020 annual report of the European Fiscal Board
2020-11-04	InvestEU: Council agrees its position on revised Commission proposal
2020-11-04	Remarks by Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis at the ECOFIN press conference
2020-11-04	EURACTIV: Eurogroup excludes additional EU stimulus against second virus wave
2020-11-04	EURACTIV: Parliament pushes for easing recovery fund conditionality
2020-11-03	Remarks by Paschal Donohoe following the Eurogroup video conference of 3 November 2020
2020-11-03	Remarks by Commissioner Gentiloni at the Eurogroup press conference
2020-11-03	BusinessEurope: Rapid implementation of EU recovery instrument is key in enduring COVID crisis
2020-10-30	EP: InvestEU Fund - boost for sustainable, innovative and social investment
2020-10-29	Bruegel: European Union recovery funds: strings attached, but not tied up in knots
2020-10-28	EP 2021 EU budget must focus on supporting a sustainable recovery from the pandemic
2020-10-26	Vox: Reforming the EU fiscal framework: Now is the time
2020-10-23	Bank of Italy Visco:conference on "Financial Stability and Regulation" Banca d'Italia and the Baffi Centre for Applied Research
2020-10-23	IPE: Pension funds and the EU’s inaugural SURE bonds
2020-10-23	City of London/Oliver Wyman: London Recharged: Our Vision For London In 2025
2020-10-23	SUERF Villeroy de Galhau: Central banks’ response to the “tragedy on the horizon”
2020-10-22	Bloomberg: Half of Europe’s Smaller Businesses Risk Bankruptcy Within Year
2020-10-21	Vox - Micossi: Managing post-Covid sovereign debts in the euro area
2020-10-21	Press speakings by Commissioner Hahn at the press conference on the first issuance of EU social bonds under SURE
2020-10-21	European Commission issues first emission of EU SURE social bonds
2020-10-20	POLITICO: Parliament set to climb down in EU budget fight
2020-10-19	ECB's Lagarde: Interview with Le Monde
2020-10-16	CEPS: Sovereign debt management in the euro area as a common action problem
2020-10-13	IMF: A Bridge to Economic Recovery: Be Aware of Financial Stability Risks
2020-10-09	EURACTIV: EU governments, parliament edge closer to deal on recovery plan
2020-10-07	EPC: The end of the level playing field?
2020-10-07	POLITICO: EU lawmakers confirm McGuinness and Dombrovskis as finance, trade commissioners
2020-10-06	Remarks by Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis at the ECOFIN press conference
2020-10-06	Video conference of economics and finance ministers
2020-10-05	Remarks by Commissioner Gentiloni at the Eurogroup press conference
2020-10-05	Eurogroup Work programme until June 2021
2020-10-02	ECON: Hearing of Mairead McGuinness
2020-10-01	Project Syndicate: Capitalists and Socialists of the World, Unite!
2020-10-01	CEPS: A proposal for a public infrastructure leasing entity for Europe
2020-09-30	SSM's Enria: Interview with RTE Morning Ireland -- Covid, payment breaks, Brexit
2020-09-30	Projetc Syndicate: Europe’s Recovery Gamble - Pisani-Ferry
2020-09-25	Bruegel: Will European Union countries be able to absorb and spend well the bloc’s recovery funding?
2020-09-25	Eurogroup: Statement by President Donohoe on the candidates for the post of ECB executive board member
2020-09-22	FT Brexit and the City: Brussels’ new battle to rival London in finance
2020-09-22	EU financial regulators assess risks to the financial sector after the outbreak of COVID-19 and call for enhanced cooperation
2020-09-21	ECB's Lagarde: Speech at the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly "Jointly shaping Europe’s tomorrow"
2020-09-18	OECD: Building confidence crucial amid an uncertain economic recovery
2020-09-17	Bruegel:Financing the European Union: New Context, New Responses
2020-09-16	SUERF: After Coronavirus: Deflation or Inflation? Goodhart
2020-09-16	State of the Union: Commission President von der Leyen "Charting the course for the year ahead" - key extracts
2020-09-15	Bruegel: Without good governance, the EU borrowing mechanism to boost the recovery could fail
2020-09-15	CEPS: Another tough year ahead for the von der Leyen Commission
2020-09-14	BIS: Cross-border links between banks and non-bank financial institutions
2020-09-14	OECD: More can be done to ensure a green recovery from COVID-19 crisis
2020-09-12	Informal Ecofin: Remarks by Commissoner Dombrovskis
2020-09-11	Remarks by Commissioner Gentiloni at the Eurogroup press conference
2020-09-11	Remarks by Paschal Donohoe following the Eurogroup meeting of 11 September 2020
2020-09-09	EURACTIV: Parliament wants to top up EU budget with €110 billion
2020-09-08	EURACTIV: Finance ministers to discuss fiscal dumping inside the EU at Berlin meeting
2020-09-08	EURACTIV: Von der Leyen proposes McGuinness as financial services Commissioner
2020-09-05	Goldschmid: The “Euro” is worth a Mass!
2020-09-05	BIS: New correspondent banking data - the decline continues at a slower pace
2020-08-24	EURACTIV: Germany’s Scholz sees ‘no way back’ from EU joint debt
2020-08-16	Vox: Fiscal austerity and the rise of the Nazis
2020-08-11	SUERF: Eurozone in times of Covid-19: Debt monetisation by stealth - Peter Vanden Houte
2020-08-11	SUERF: European Recovery Fund: Sceptics Q&A
2020-07-31	CEPS: Reading between the lines of Council agreement on the MFF and Next Generation EU
2020-07-30	Oliver Wyman: Insights Lessons In Financial Regulation What we’ve learned from the Coronavirus Recession
2020-07-30	FT: UBS Axel Weber - European banking needs a Big Bang
2020-07-27	Vox: Euroepan Commission - Strengthening the Institutional Architecture of the Economic and Monetary Union
2020-07-25	Federal Trust: Is the European Union finally moving to an economic – not just a monetary – Union?
2020-07-24	POLITICO: Commission weighs Wirecard fixes for EU financial rules
2020-07-24	EURACTIV: Parliament insists on revisiting budget cuts despite Michel, von der Leyen charm offensive
2020-07-23	Speech by President von der Leyen at the European Parliament Plenary on the conclusions of the Special European Council meeting of 17-21 Jul
2020-07-21	FT: Two cheers for Europe’s €750bn recovery fund
2020-07-21	Euractiv: Council brokers historic stimulus pact as budget cuts, rule of law retreat plague deal
2020-07-20	EUCO: Michel on Special European Council, 17-21 July 2020
2020-07-16	Federal Trust: The German Presidency is a time of hope for the EU
2020-07-15	POLITICO: The coronavirus recovery plan that von der Leyen built
2020-07-15	Coronavirus Response: Commission welcomes ‘Best Practices' to provide relief for consumers and businesses
2020-07-15	Dombrovskis at the ECOFIN press conference
2020-07-15	Michel:"A deal is essential. Now is the time" - Invitation letter by President Charles Michel to the members of the European Council
2020-07-14	ECA: REACT-EU recovery funding: tension between swift support and value for money
2020-07-14	EBF STATEMENT ON EC INITIATIVE ON COVID-19 RELIEF MEASURES
2020-07-14	AFME: Impact of COVID-19 on European Capital Markets: Market Update
2020-07-10	EURACTIV: Donohoe wins Eurogroup presidency
2020-07-09	EURACTIV: Election day: Calviño and Donohoe neck and neck in Eurogroup race
2020-07-09	The role (and accountability) of the President of the Eurogroup
2020-07-08	POLITICO: Parliament confirms EU banking nominee despite gender concerns
2020-07-08	Read-out of the meeting between Presidents of the EU institutions von der Leyen, Michel and Sassoli and Chancellor Merkel on the recovery pa
2020-07-08	POLITICO: Luxembourg’s Gramegna banks on credentials, recovery pitch in Eurogroup race
2020-07-06	Robert Schuman Fondation: Dinner at Jefferson's (or how the USA created the federal public debt)
2020-07-04	Equity: the key to unlocking a sustainable economic recovery
2020-07-02	EURACTIV: ECB stimulus plan meets court requirements, says German finance minister
2020-07-02	EURACTIV: Merkel kicks off EU presidency with Brexit warning
2020-07-01	SSM: Public consultation on the ECB Guide on the supervisory approach to consolidation in the banking sector
2020-07-01	FCA: Building a financial regulatory system suitable for the UK in the new era
2020-07-01	POLITICO: Nadia Calviño’s daunting Eurogroup bid
2020-07-01	Programme for Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union: together for Europe’s recovery.
2020-06-26	Eurogroup presidency: three ministers put forward their candidacies
2020-06-25	ECB: New Eurosystem repo facility to provide euro liquidity to non-euro area central banks
2020-06-24	Conference on the Future of Europe - Council agrees its position
2020-06-24	Politico: Conference on EU future edges closer — but with clear limits
2020-06-22	FT: Berlin and ECB signal end to legal impasse over bond-buying
2020-06-22	POLITICO: EU launches in-depth probe into London Stock Exchange-Refinitiv
2020-06-19	Remarks by President Charles Michel following the video conference of the European Council
2020-06-19	EURACTIV: Leaders pledge to agree on recovery package next month
2020-06-17	Bruegel: The EU’s recovery fund proposals: crisis relief with massive redistribution
2020-06-17	Oliver Wyman - Doug Elliot: Euro Crisis 2.0
2020-06-17	European Commission adopted Report on the Impact of Demographic Change in Europe
2020-06-16	European Council President Charles Michel: invitation letter ahead of video conference on 19 June 2020
2020-06-15	Citizens’ attitudes towards the ECB, the euro and Economic and Monetary Union
2020-06-13	EURACTIV: Visegrad leaders call for ‘fair’ EU recovery fund
2020-06-12	Remarks by Mário Centeno following the Eurogroup videoconference of 11 June 2020
2020-06-12	The Economist: Why are bank bosses sounding more optimistic about loan losses?
2020-06-10	EPC: Eurogroup: Centeno’s successor should be a Commissioner
2020-06-10	Projetc Syndicate: Europe’s New Deal Moment
2020-06-10	Reuters: Spain says would be 'good news' if Economy Minister Calvino became Eurogroup chief
2020-06-09	ECOFIN: 9 June - Ministers boost investment for the EU's recovery.
2020-06-09	POLITICO: Three saddle up for Eurogroup horse race
2020-06-09	POLITICO: Dutch government doubles down on opposition to EU recovery fund proposal
2020-06-08	ECON: COVID-19 and German constitutional court decision top meeting with ECB’s Lagarde
2020-06-08	Christine Lagarde: Hearing at the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament
2020-06-05	CEPS: CEPS In Brief Next Generation EU bonds might face a credit-rating challenge
2020-06-05	Politico: Lagarde rebuffs German court but hints at some answers
2020-06-05	POLITICO: Finland rejects EU recovery fund, arguing it’s too large
2020-06-04	Bruegel: The Independence of the Central Bank at Risk
2020-06-03	EURACTIV: Commission vows to break with troika-type conditions in recovery phase
2020-06-01	EURACTIV: Austria opposes current EU rescue, wants changes
2020-05-29	BusinessEueope: Determined financial and non-financial European response essential to overcome corona crisis
2020-05-29	EU’s public health and economic response to COVID-19 to be reviewed by European Court of Auditors
2020-05-29	CEPS: The MFF recovery plan breaks with a fundamental taboo
2020-05-29	Commissioner Gentiloni - on the Recovery and Resilience Facility
2020-05-29	Reuters: We're still a long way off concluding EU recovery fund talks: Germany
2020-05-29	Commission Vice-President Dombrovskis remarks on the Recovery and Resilience Facility
2020-05-28	EU future at stake: MEPs broadly welcome Commission’s recovery package proposals
2020-05-28	EURACTIV: How EU member states reacted to the Commission’s Recovery Fund proposal
2020-05-28	WWF: EU Recovery Package: "repair & prepare" not yet fully green and fair
2020-05-28	COVID-19: Single market must emerge stronger from the crisis, say MEPs
2020-05-27	Politco: EU green finance plans may be pushed back three months
2020-05-27	POLITICO: Sebastian Kurz cautious on Commission’s €750B recovery blueprint
2020-05-27	IAIS: Financial policymakers discuss responses to COVID-19 with the private sector
2020-05-27	Business Europe: EU recovery fund should restore business confidence
2020-05-27	President von der Leyen at the European Parliament Plenary on the EU Recovery package
2020-05-27	2020 Commission Work Programme - adjusted for Covid
2020-05-27	MEPs: Focus on crisis response when coordinating economic and budgetary policies
2020-05-27	Bruegel: An equity fund for a zombie-free and EU-wide recovery
2020-05-27	Fondation Robert Schuman: The European Commission’s Recovery Plan Key points for a full picture
2020-05-26	ECB: Pandemic increases risks to financial stability
2020-05-26	Vox: Europe in the time of Covid-19: A new crash test and a new opportunity
2020-05-26	Projetc Syndicate: One Giant Leap for Europe?
2020-05-22	Paul Goldschmid: Disappointments
2020-05-22	Der Spiegel: Half a Trillion Euros - Merkel and Macron Find the Strength for Europe
2020-05-20	POLITICO: Franco-German recovery deal meets resistance
2020-05-20	Bruegel: The European Central Bank in the COVID-19 crisis: whatever it takes, within its mandate
2020-05-18	Berlin buckles on bonds in €500B Franco-German recovery plan
2020-05-18	Chancellor Merkel and President Macron:Overcoming the crisis united and emerging from it stronger
2020-05-15	The General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board takes first set of actions to address the coronavirus emergency at its extraordinary m
2020-05-15	Bruegel: Rebooting Europe: a framework for a post COVID-19 economic recovery
2020-05-14	Perpetual bonds are not the best way to finance the European Recovery Fund
2020-05-14	German judges take ECB fight to court of public opinion
2020-05-13	FT's Wolf: German court decides to take back control with ECB ruling
2020-05-13	Bloomberg: ECB Officials Defend Bond-Buying Program After German Court Blow
2020-05-13	Breugel's Veron: Banking regulation in the euro area: Germany is different
2020-05-12	Reuters: European rescue fund head implores Italy, others to use its credit, dpa reports
2020-05-12	POLITICO: German ECB board member rebukes national court over verdict
2020-05-12	POLITICO: Europe’s financial regulators prepare for life after lockdown
2020-05-12	BIS: US dollar funding markets during the Covid-19 crisis - the money market fund turmoil
2020-05-11	ISDA: Seismic Shift – IQ May 2020
2020-05-09	Robert Schuman: The Declaration of 9 May 1950
2020-05-09	EPC Duff: The Schuman Declaration turns 70.
2020-05-08	Commissioner Gentiloni at the Eurogroup press conference
2020-05-08	EURACTIV: ESM corona-loans expected to be available from 15 May
2020-05-07	FT: ECB to resist German court order to justify bond purchases
2020-05-06	Buiter: Germany’s Judges Declare War on the ECB
2020-05-06	Bruegel podcast: An analysis of the German Constitutional Court ruling on the ECB QE programme
2020-05-06	POLITICO: France criticizes German court ruling on European Central Bank
2020-05-06	POLITICO: German court lays down EU law
2020-05-05	ECB takes note of German Federal Constitutional Court ruling and remains fully committed to its mandate
2020-05-05	Bloomberg: EU Court Faces ‘Declaration of War’ From German Top Judges
2020-05-05	FT: German court calls on ECB to justify bond-buying programme
2020-05-05	Bundesverfassungsgericht: official translation of decision of 5th May re ECB
2020-05-01	ACCA - Kattar: Covid-19 will have implications for investors now and in the future
2020-04-30	Politico: Next Council presidency trio plans agenda for post-coronavirus Europe
2020-04-28	BIS: Covid-19 and corporate sector liquidity
2020-04-28	ECON: MEPs call for concrete details and novel tools to address the economic crisis
2020-04-28	Coronavirus Response: Commission adopts banking package to facilitate lending to households and businesses in the EU
2020-04-27	IA outlines shareholder expectations on executive pay in light of COVID-19
2020-04-22	VOX: Daniel Gros - A corona financial solidarity levy
2020-04-20	ISDA: Impetus for Automation
2020-04-17	COVID-19: Lessons from the 'euro crisis': EPC's Emmanouilidis and Zuleeg
2020-04-16	FT: Neel Kashkari: Big US banks should raise $200bn in capital now
2020-04-16	Veron: Risks for the US Dollar as the World's Reserve Currency
2020-04-09	Eurogroup report on the comprehensive economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic
2020-04-06	Preventing a Euro Crisis on Top of the Coronavirus Ordeal - Lorenzo Codogno
2020-04-06	FT: Coronavirus crisis prompts German rethink on eurobonds
2020-04-06	Eurogroup President Centeno interview on fiscal response and coronabonds
2020-03-23	Joint statement on the need of keeping European markets open
2020-03-20	Joint market trade associations statement: Keeping financial markets open amid coronavirus
2020-03-20	FSB coordinates financial sector work to buttress the economy in response to COVID-19
2020-03-19	ECGI: Why financial regulation keeps falling short
2020-03-12	ESMA recommends action by financial market participants for COVID-19 impact
2020-03-04	ECMI: A complex European financial architecture - 10 years on
2020-03-03	Insurance Europe: EC must prioritise global competitiveness of EU financial services
2020-02-27	ECB: Major European financial infrastructures join forces against cyber threats
2020-02-18	FCA highlights its areas of concern in financial services markets
2020-02-06	Bruegel: From climate change to cyber attacks: Incipient financial-stability risks for the euro area
2020-02-06	ECB's De Guindos: The euro area financial sector: opportunities and challenges
2020-02-04	ESMA amends guidelines to further harmonise the enforcement of financial information by national regulators
2020-01-16	AFME and Linklaters publish report on financial services conduct supervision
2020-01-10	ESMA report values EU Alternative Investment Funds at €5.8 trillion

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