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A study suggests that the influence of lobbyists on financial legislation in the US is staggering. In the three years since the global financial crisis erupted, two dominant...

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Lithuania's foreign minister enjoys a scrap. One would think that, for a small country integrated into the heavyweight machinery of alliances such as the EU and NATO, foreign...

Austerity is a word they do not know. Santa Claus came early this year for four former executives of Washington Mutual (WaMu), a large US bank that failed in fall 2008....

City of London's role as a financial centre could be usefully fed into EU thinking. Could I make a suggestion? In the interest of Europe's financial markets, the European...

The EU and the US need a deeper and broader dialogue to improve economic management on both sides of the Atlantic. The 8-9 December summit of EU leaders exposed a portentous...

Any last-ditch plan that EU leaders devise to save the eurozone must involve a greater role for the European Central Bank. At least three times since May 2010, the European...

What is going on at the European Court of Auditors? Is this the European Court of Auditors, or is it a soap opera? On 23 November, the budgetary control committee of the...

World's biggest central banks move to boost bank liquidity. The European Central Bank has taken action with five other central banks to boost liquidity to the banking system.

Group will look at whether banks' retail and investment banking activities should be separated. Michel Barnier, the European commissioner for the internal market, has pledged...

The British prime minister fears that a two-tier EU could damage the single market. As the eurozone debt crisis rumbles on, there has been much talk about the possibility of...

Mario Draghi has made a positive impact as head of the European Central Bank, but it may not be enough to save the eurozone. Mario Draghi has scored two – related –...

The eurozone has to address its democratic deficit as well as its sovereign debt. Not since 1979, when the courageous Paul Volcker, then the chairman of the US Federal...

China needs to replace its dollar-denominated assets, writes a leading Chinese economist. In theory, the difference between capital inflows and outflows in developing...

Economic models and projections are incapable of capturing the scale of the threat to Europe's and the world's economy. Economic forecasts are sophisticated, computer-...

Estonia's finance minister is not afraid to throw his weight around. Diminutive and still developing, Estonia is ever conscious of its place in the European family, which in...

The EU is still looking to the Caspian to secure its security of gas supplies. Nord Stream launch gives Russia the upper hand Looking for energy in the...

Pro-Russia party eyes government role, with corruption scandals set to hurt traditional parties. If a pro-Russia party in Latvia is ever to grab the reins of power, or at...

ECB board member Jürgen Stark is a straight-talking fiscal and monetary hardliner. These must be trying times for Jürgen Stark. A champion of economic discipline,...

Economic conditions might have to become a lot worse in order to focus policymakers' minds. I don't know about you, but whenever I am in an airplane experiencing turbulence,...