Podcast
04 July 2019
Director's Cut: Priorities for the new ECB president
In this Director's Cut of 'The Sound of Economics', Guntram Wolff talks to two of the authors of Bruegel's memo to the new ECB president, Maria Demert
Podcast
04 July 2019
In this Director's Cut of 'The Sound of Economics', Guntram Wolff talks to two of the authors of Bruegel's memo to the new ECB president, Maria Demert
Policy brief
03 July 2019
Memo to the president of the European Central Bank. Grégory Claeys, Maria Demertzis and Francesco Papadia present the challenges that the next ECB pre
Blog post
01 July 2019
A textbook condition of international finance breaks down. Economic research identifies the interplay between divergent monetary policies and new fina
Event
20 June 2019
What has changed since the financial crisis of 2008 that makes the financial system sound at last? Is regulatory reform going in the right direction?
Blog post
27 May 2019
On May 28th, EU heads of state and government will start the nomination process for the next ECB president. Leaving names of possible candidates aside
Blog post
15 May 2019
The discussions of the now-aborted merger of Germany’s two largest banks underlined supervisors’ concerns over creating banks that are too big or too
Blog post
29 April 2019
Europe’s largest banks have made progress in issuing bail-inable securities that shelter taxpayers from bank failures. But the now-finalised revision
External publication
18 April 2019
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) has had a somewhat difficult start but has been able to learn and adapt, and has gained stature following its first
Blog post
26 February 2019
Money laundering scandals at EU banks have become pervasive. The authors here detail the weaknesses the current AML architecture's fundamental weaknes
Blog post
07 December 2018
The recent Eurogroup agreement on euro-area reform foresees a greater role for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) as a backstop to the banking uni
External publication
22 November 2018
Banks deemed to be failing or likely to fail in the banking union are either put into insolvency/liquidation or enter a resolution scheme to protect t
Event
20 November 2018
This event will look back at the first five years of the Single Supervisory Mechanism.
External publication
05 November 2018
A year ago, a group of 14 French and German economists joined forces with the aim of forging common proposals for euro area reforms. Their report gave
Podcast
30 October 2018
In this episode, Bruegel senior fellow Nicolas Véron joins Sean Gibson to discuss the recent Policy Contribution on how to better the European Union a
Policy brief
25 October 2018
A series of banking scandals in multiple EU countries has underlined the shortcomings of Europe's anti-money laundering regime. The impact of these sh
Opinion piece
11 October 2018
China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was greeted with great fanfare. But near silence has greeted the recent removal by the China