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Member states approve deal, with MEPs to vote on package later this month. EU finance ministers today (7 September) gave their endorsement to a sweeping overhaul of...

Report on the single market gets a lukewarm reception. What was European Commission President José Manuel Barroso up to when he commissioned Mario Monti to prepare a...

Eurozone leaders must work harder if they are to prevent the Greek crisis from spreading to other countries weakened by debt problems. When finance ministers and central...

Corporate governance failings have been highlighted. Now action needs to be taken. The financial crisis exposed serious failings in banks' corporate-governance arrangements,...

The European Commission is increasingly at odds with the demands of the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament over how to implement better supervision of the...

Money well spent by the Commission. It is a cliché of the business world that a company will pay external consultants to come in and say what the company thinks, but...

Regulators want changes to financial system plans. Banking regulators are urging the European Parliament to amend plans for a new system of financial supervision in the EU,...

Parliament committee sets out timetable for its scrutiny of financial services proposals. The European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee has set out an...

The European Commission wants a quick deal on financial supervision reform, but MEPs may not give them what they want. Since Jacques de Larosière published his...

This scientist may prove a formidable chairwoman of the European Parliament's economic and financial committee. At a conference in Gothenburg last month, Sharon Bowles found...

Presidency plans to hold meetings every week as UK leads call for changes to supervision proposals. The Swedish government is to hold a series of meetings in the coming...

EU presidency is hopeful of a full agreement on creation of systemic risk board this year. The Swedish presidency claimed today to have secured a “broad political...

Quality of Commission's work on regulation questioned. MEPs have criticised the quality of the European Commission's work on a proposal to regulate the activities of...

Plans would allow large, insolvent banks to be wound down without damaging the economy. The European Commission will later this month present proposals on how to ensure that...

Lack of clear political leadership is making it harder for the EU to help eastern European member states escape their economic problems and could threaten political...

Like the US's, Europe's regulatory plans for the financial sector are not radical enough. On both sides of the Atlantic, the financial crisis has generated a common...

Proposal could marginalise small EU member states and new authority could get binding powers. Some of the EU's smaller member states are concerned that upcoming proposals...

An approach that held sway for decades may have been blown away, but its supporters are fighting a rearguard action. Over time, as the financial crisis has deepened, it has...

France, Germany and the UK agree to limit powers of EU-wide regulators. The EU's leaders are expected later today to agree on reforms to financial supervision, following a...

EU committees to get new powers; European Systemic Risk Board to be created. The EU's leaders agreed today on reforms to financial supervision, following a deal between the...