27/5/19: LSE Business Review: Capital Markets Union: An Assessment

Our article for the LSE Business Review blog on the research paper covering the European Capital Markets Union reforms is available here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2019/05/23/the-unfinished-business-of-the-eus-capital-markets-union/.

Link to the full paper here: https://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2019/04/2419-capital-markets-union-action-plan.html. 

2/4/19: Capital Markets Union: An Action Plan of Unfinished Reforms

Our paper on the progress of the EU Capital Markets Union reforms is now available on SSRN:

Capital Markets Union: An Action Plan of Unfinished Reforms (March 21, 2019). with Tracy Lee Lyon, Alexandra Cohen, Margaret Poda and Matthew Salyer (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS); GUE/NGL Group, European Parliament, Policy Analysis Paper, March 2019. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3357380.

13/9/2013: EU Leader Asks for Self-Censorship from the EU Auditors

If anyone needs a proof that EU elites are intrinsically incapable of accepting open, transparent & properly structured democratic governance, here it is: an EU President who seemingly explicitly advocates suppression or manipulation of facts to serve ideological purpose. This goes beyond simply paying for propaganda news channels and advertorial 'museums' or carrying out a calendar full of questionable in value activities at the expense of taxpayers. Europe's President now demands suppression of disclosure and spinning of reports by EU auditors. In effect we have a man who confuses executive power for absolute power and has a blurred notion of the role of audit in any society or institution.

Stunning admission by a senior EU leader of his innate disdain for checks and balances in the system he allegedly serves.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10306461/EU-auditors-must-tone-down-criticism-of-Brussels-spending-says-Herman-Van-Rompuy.html