The EU Parliament endorses tax on financial transactions
The European Parliament yesterday gave its final go ahead for the introduction of the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) to be applied in the 11 Eurozone member states, which had initially accepted this...
View ArticleWhy capital markets have no more reservetions about Eurozone
Borrowing on international markets is not at all a straightforward activity. Things are even more complicated when it comes to long-term debt paper with maturities spanning to decades. This little...
View ArticleIs it impossible to place the banks under control?
Within the next few weeks the European Commission is expected to announce a proposal for a structural reform in the banking sector. The declared target is to make sure “that banks do not remain or...
View ArticleGreece returns to markets at a high cost to taxpayers, after four years out...
The time that Greece has been waiting for, for quite a long time (4 years) is about to come. Athens is now floating in the capital markets a sovereign bond issue of about €2.5 billion and already...
View ArticleWill ECB win against low inflation by not following Quantitave Easing?
On the 5th of June, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided not to fully deploy all the tools of Quantitative Easing (QE) programme, which showed that the ECB is not yet ready to risk everything in...
View ArticleECB’s billions fortify south Eurozone except Greece; everybody rushes to...
Even without having spent yet a single euro the European Central Bank’s program of sovereign bond buying of €60 billion a month has had an enormous impact on world financial markets. It suppressed the...
View ArticleHow Germany strives to mold ECB’s monetary policy to her interests
Sabine Lautenschläger, a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and at the same time Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism is in itself a living...
View ArticleEuropean Court rules that ECB’s OMT program of 2012 is OK; not a word from...
Last Tuesday 16 June the European Court of Justice issued a historic decision ruling that Mario Draghi was legally correct when on 26 July 2012 speaking at the Global Investment Conference in London...
View ArticleGreece’s Tsipras: Risking country and Eurozone or securing an extra argument...
The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his governing left wing SYRIZA party, cornered between its populist rhetoric for greener grass and the realities of the dragging on negotiations with the...
View ArticleThe London City-EU connection holds despite of Brexit and the ban of...
European Commission’s decision to ban the Deutsche Börse – London Stock Exchange merger, on the one hand solved a long list of problems it could have triggered, in view of and after the Brexit. On the...
View ArticleDraghi to lay his print on long term ECB policies prior to exiting next year
Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank, was criticized by major global financial media for insisting to end the easy money policy this December. The argument is that, after ECB’s...
View ArticleDraghi’s negative interest rates help Eurozone’s cohesion
Super Mario did it again. Only months before leaving the helm of the European Central Bank he made sure his accommodative monetary policy will hold well, even after he leaves Frankfurt am Main. Last...
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