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Lehman Brothers, BP and now the financial markets! Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Andrew Gowers, sometime editor of the Financial Times, has become interim strategic...

Five essential features of a comprehensive package of measures to help the eurozone in good times and bad. The EU's thinking about how to manage the eurozone's sovereign-debt...

A proper system for managing eurozone crises is emerging. Is the eurozone stepping back from the brink? This might just be possible, because the emerging outlines of a...

Copyright protection for performers and producers to go up from 50 to 70 years. The European Union has adopted new rules to extend copyright protection for music...

The central bankers' bank is worried about the state of global finance. It is right be concerned. The American academic Adam Posen last month (27 June) told a committee of...

The US could learn some lessons about labour markets from Europe. Add another casualty to the list of victims of the Great Recession: the US conceit that its labour market...

The European Commission's plans for the financial sector must be robust to prevent the EU relapsing into well-established and damaging routines. Before his summer holidays,...

Systemic risk board to make quarterly analysis. Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, said today a body set up to watch for macro-economic...

EU Communications Consultant Today's Communications Directors want better, more effective ways of communicating than the tired formulas offered by big groups and patchy...

Commission wants to restrict risky practices and officials hope to prevent cross-border bank failures. The European Commission is about to announce plans to give national...

Why, and how, the EU must upgrade Europeans' computing skills. The ‘European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion' is drawing to a close. This should make us...

Exercise covered 91 of Europe's major banks, but investors have expressed concern that the tests may not have been sufficiently rigorous. The Committee of European Banking...

Policymakers and the financial sector sought the nirvana of a complete market – and instead brought on a crisis. John Maynard Keynes famously wrote that “the ideas of...

EU member states struggle to convince markets about control over problems in the banking sector. The governments of the European Union are struggling to convince financial...

Divisions remain over global financial levies and how quickly to withdraw economic stimulus. Leaders from G20 group of developing and developed nations agreed to halve their...

Wolf Klinz didn't start his political career until he was in his sixties, but he is making up for lost time. At a stage in life when others focus on their grandchildren or...

European Council president announces emergency summit amid fears that Greece's economic problems could spread to other eurozone countries. The European Union's leadership is...

Jarle Hetland gets to grips with a book that takes a Marxist perspective on the financial crisis. Alex Callinicos is not the only one to have noticed that something dramatic...

Leaders of Germany and the UK want special fund to guard against future financial crises. Germany and the UK have promised to push for a global agreement to make banks pay...

A financial transaction tax would that help alleviate a range of our current crises. As economists from across the world, we call on the EU to implement a financial...