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Showing posts with label European Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European Union. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2009

Nieuwe Europese bankenregels schieten tekort

'Nieuwe Europese bankenregels schieten tekort'

(Bron De Telegraaf, DFT)
BRUSSEL (AFN) - De Europese regeringsleiders trekken de teugels voor de financiële sector aan. Om een herhaling van de financiële crisis te voorkomen, moeten banken en verzekeraars zich vanaf volgend jaar onderwerpen aan strengere regels en strikter toezicht. Hoogleraar economie Sylvester Eijffinger is echter niet onder de indruk.
“Dit kan niet werken”, waarschuwde Eijffinger vrijdag vanaf een congres in Milaan, waar hij de nieuwe regels bediscussieerde met kopstukken uit de Europese financiële sector. “Men heeft de oren teveel laten hangen naar de politiek. Maar monetair toezicht is heel complex. Het is een vak apart, daar hebben politici maar weinig verstand van.”

Na lang onderhandelen werden de regeringsleiders van de EU het vrijdag eens over de nieuwe toezichtsstructuren voor de Europese financiële sector. Die zijn voor een groot deel gebaseerd op de aanbevelingen van de commissie van wijzen onder leiding van de Fransman Jacques de Larosière, waarin ook de Nederlandse ex-minister Onno Ruding zitting had.

Wensen
“Die commissie heeft teveel geluisterd naar de wensen van de Duitsers en de Britten, die waren tegen het overhevelen van verantwoordelijkheden naar Europees niveau. Er is te weinig lef getoond”, aldus Eijffinger. Eerder gaf Ruding zelf al toe dat de aanbeveling om een echte Europese toezichthouder in te stellen in politiek opzicht nog een brug te ver was.

Nationale toezichthouders moeten volgens de nieuwe regels in een aparte commissie gaan samenwerken bij het toezicht op banken en verzekeraars die in verschillende landen actief zijn. Daarnaast moeten twee andere commissies ervoor gaan zorgen dat het toezicht in de EU-lidstaten beter wordt en dat de regels in heel Europa worden gestandaardiseerd. Zie artikel...
http://www.telegraaf.nl/dft/nieuws_dft/4206802/___Nieuwe_Europese_bankenregels_schieten_tekort___.html?p=14,1
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

ECB Official Faults New EU Regulation

ECB Official Faults New EU Regulation

(Source Wall Street Journal)The European Union approved a compromise plan Friday to create new financial regulators for the bloc, but a senior official at the European Central Bank that would head the new effort said the plan allowed too little power for the regulators to act.

The EU would set up a European Systemic Risk Council for the bloc, headed up by the president of the ECB. But, largely due to pressure from the United Kingdom, the body would only be advisory. Final decisions on financial-sector rescues would rest with the national governments called on to fund them.
The ECB should have "the possibility to act," Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, a member of the ECB's Executive Council, said Friday, addressing a conference in Milan.

Under the plan approved Friday by the bloc's 27 leaders at a summit in Brussels, the Risk Council would have "the powers to make recommendations but not to implement policies directly," he said.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has pushed hard for greater regulation in response to the financial crisis, told reporters at the summit that he expected the proposed council to acquire greater powers over time.

"We've created a new EU institution from scratch. ... We could have gone further, but I believe that it will widen [its powers] through experience and practice, the way it's always happened," said Mr. Sarkozy. EU institutions and policies have often begun small and gathered powers over time. Read Article...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124541961471231443.html
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Friday, June 12, 2009

European stocks fall after grim industrial data

European stocks fall after grim industrial data
European markets fall after grim industrial data, ahead of expected subdued US open


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/European-stocks-fall-after-apf-15509211.html?sec=topStories&pos=3&asset=&ccode=

Germany's DAX fell 23.89 points, or 0.5 percent, to 5,083.37 and the CAC-40 in France was 2.65 points, or 0.1 percent, lower at 3,332.29.

The European Union's statistics office Eurostat revealed that industrial production in the 16 countries that use the euro slumped by 1.9 percent in April from the previous month. That was way more than the 1 percent decline expected in the markets and stoked worries that the recession in the euro zone may not yet have bottomed out, as some had hoped.

"April's euro-zone industrial production figures provide few signs that the negative effects from destocking and the collapse in global trade are waning," said Ben May, European economist at Capital Economics.

Industrial production plays a particularly important role in the European economy and its recovery, whenever it comes, will provide a clear indication that the worst of the recession is over.

Sharply lower industrial output was blamed for the massive 2.5 percent quarterly fall in the euro zone's first quarter gross domestic product. The recession in Germany, the euro zone's biggest economy, was even greater as demand for its high-value exports, such as cars and heavy machinery, slumped amid the collapse in global trade.

Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 12.57 points, or 0.3 percent, at 4,449.30 with Barclays PLC down around 3 percent after it confirmed the sale of its global investment unit to U.S. fund manager BlackRock Inc. for $13.5 billion.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Global crisis spending lacks direction: poll

EXCLUSIVE: Global crisis spending lacks direction: poll

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two-thirds of people believe "massive government spending" to combat the financial crisis shows a lack of clear direction, according to a poll of nations representing 75 percent of the global economy issued on Wednesday.
The Ipsos/Reuters survey also found that 60 percent of the people in the 23 countries polled say increased government regulation will stifle economic growth, an opinion particularly strong in the United States and emerging market giants India and China.

Clifford Young of Ipsos Global Public Affairs, the international market research and polling company that carried out the online poll, said the survey showed opinions were mixed with a majority still wanting more government action on the economic downturn despite their concerns.
"There's worry and some degree of uncertainty about government actions," Young said. "The general message is we want governments to do something, but not too much, and we don't want to go back to the dark ages."
The survey of 23,000 people, conducted from April 14 to May 7, showed 58 percent don't think the United States has done enough to reinvigorate the global economy, 53 percent believe the European Union needs to do more, and more than two-thirds think China has not done enough. Read more...
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE55211E20090603
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Europese topconcerns slaan massaal alarm

Topondernemers slaan alarm.(Telegraaf.nl)
AMSTERDAM - Grote multinationals waaronder Shell, Philips en Akzo Nobel maken zich grote zorgen over de in snel tempo om zich heen grijpende economische crisis. ,,We hebben de bedrijvigheid in Europa nog nooit zo snel zien verslechteren als in de afgelopen maanden. De situatie is ronduit gevaarlijk en de Europese landen moeten nu echt ingrijpen”
Dat stellen de bestuursvoorzitters van 47 grote Europese concerns in een gezamenlijke brandbrief richting politiek en Europese Unie, met handtekeningen van bestuurders als Van der Veer (Shell), Kleisterlee (Philips), Wijers (Akzo Nobel), Van Boxmeer (Heineken) en Cescau (Unilever).
Volgens voorzitter Jorma Ollila, ook president-commissaris van Shell en Nokia, is in Europa sprake van een scherpe daling van het aantal nieuwe orders en bestaat er een groot gebrek aan betaalbare kredieten.