
Your search for "Howard Davies" produced 12 items.
| 1. High finance, high (and low) politics | June 10, 2010 |
Examining the role of politics in central banking. These are uncertain times for the world's central banks, those (usually) government-owned institutions that, in recent... |
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| 2. Failure after failure erodes Europeans' confidence | January 29, 2009 |
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But boosting German manufacturing power is not the answer for the rest of Europe. The UK media are being asked, and are asking themselves, whether they are making an awful... | |
| 3. Medical schools are no longer immune to the Bologna process | October 2, 2008 |
Cutting medical education into two degree cycles might not be such a bad idea after all. Medical education has traditionally had a difficult relationship with the... |
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| 4. Why central banks must take the lead | May 8, 2008 |
Central banks must step up to the plate and take a bigger role in financial regulation, however uncomfortable that may be for some. Last Thursday we saw the first... |
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| 5. Europe must unite or be irrelevant | April 4, 2007 |
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Europe, according to a column in the Financial Times last week, “is irrelevant in Asia, except as a market and producer of luxury goods”. Thus was the European ‘model'... | |
| 6. Universities to spell out their vision at Liège | April 22, 2004 |
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WHAT role for the universities in the Europe of knowledge? This was the question posed by the European Commission in 2002. Prompted – or so it seemed to universities –... | |
| 7. Bologna: converging from all directions | October 23, 2003 |
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IT IS five years since Claude Allègre, France's former education minister, invited his British, German and Italian colleagues to mark out the lines along which their... | |
| 8. Finance stability forum touted to prevent Enron-style collapse | July 11, 2002 |
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EUROPE should set up its own forum to keep watch on financial stability across the continent in the aftermath of the Enron crisis, top regulators and bankers agreed yesterday... | |
| 9. NEWS IN BRIEF | March 28, 2002 |
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It's a bit quieter at Alcan HQ these days after Mario Monti blocked its merger with Pechiney two years ago. But in case DG Competition wants to raid its offices, be informed... | |
| 10. Deadline for single financial market 'tight', says regulator | March 21, 2002 |
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THE European Union will struggle to meet its timetable for completing the single market for financial services, one of Europe's most influential regulators warned this week.... | |
| 11. Commission attacks forum for global accounting rules | January 20, 2000 |
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ATTEMPTS to launch a world-wide set of accounting standards for firms listed on stock exchanges across the globe are under fire from European Commission experts, who claim... | |
| 12. Europe struggles to agree over creation of financial police force | May 12, 1999 |
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FOR many, a single market can never work without a single policeman. Even those sceptical of the need to strengthen the EU's institutions were persuaded of this logic back... | |