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
Report
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.
Report
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
Comment
10 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
Policy brief
26 September 2018
In this Policy Contribution prepared for the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) as an input to the Monetary Dialo
Blog post
10 September 2018
Ten years after the bankruptcy that shook the world, we review economists’ take on the lessons learned from the global financial crisis.
Podcast
03 September 2018
Bruegel senior fellow Nicolas Véron talks with Jörg Kukies, state secretary at the German finance ministry, about the next steps to the banking union
Blog post
29 August 2018
In its bid to join the single currency Bulgaria has made commitments on financial supervision but also wider structural reform which set a precedent f
Blog post
18 July 2018
German savings banks, known as Sparkassen, form an important feature of the country's banking assets. Unlike in other European countries, German Spark
Blog post
21 June 2018
As the European economy recovers from the global financial crisis, bank mergers are back on the agenda. While cross-border mergers have been predicted
Working paper
21 June 2018
This paper presents a holistic overview and assessment of the European Union (EU)’s financial services policy since the start of its financial crisis
Event
19 June 2018
This event will feature the presentation of the Economic Survey of the European Union 2018 and Economic Survey of the Euro Area 2018.