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Date 26/04/2021 On 22 April at the BETTER FINANCE’s international conference, high-level speakers and over 350 registered participants debated “How to make the EU Capital Markets Union (‘CMU’) work for people?”.     For the CMU to succeed, putting equities back at the heart of the EU economy funding and reducing the reliance on bank funding, European citizens and households as long-term savers and individual investors need to be at its heart. As the main source of long-term capital, EU households have a key role to play. But inviting EU savers to participate more directly in ...

Who's paying for Europe's COVID-related debts? Germany and the EU are taking on record levels of new debt to help stave off the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. But despite the risk, the current situation can't be compared with the last EU financial crisis. EU member states have been racking up massive debts to counter the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic Germany's Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, has presented a supplementary budget for 2021 which will push new borrowing this year to a record high of €240 billion ($287 billion). This "bold step," said Finance Mi...

Lagarde's attempt to stave off global bond contagion is going badly wrong European Central Bank is effectively forced to keep buying bonds on a mass scale to stop markets repricing the "Club Med" debt risk 12 March 2021 • 2:38pm It was just a matter of time before Germany’s eurosceptic professors filed a fresh lawsuit against quantitative easing at the Verfassungsgericht, Europe’s most powerful and temperamental court. A group of 16 economists and businessmen have finally pulled the trigger. They accuse the European Central Bank of “blatant monetary financing of states” in breach of...

Brexit-Free Budget Drops EU Access for Finance Down the Agenda Bloomberg 3/4/2021 Harry Wilson and Silla Brush © Bloomberg The One Canada Water skyscraper office building, center, stands in the Canary Wharf business, financial and shopping district of London, U.K., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Londoners are steadily increasing their use of public transport after schools reopened, freeing parents to go back to the workplace. (Bloomberg) -- A widening gap between Britain and the European Union over finance regulation is starting to emerge, with a post-Brexit alignment droppin...

Markus Ferber, a member of Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, takes aim at Member States over their implementation of the EU’s €750...