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Basel 4 and European banks, are we safer now?1
- Financial Policy and International Markets, Op-ed
- 22/01/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has recently agreed on a new set of rules with more restrictive requirements for the banking sector. These provisions will force European banks to converge to standardised risk-weighting of their assets by 2027 and should create better harmonisation of international capital requirements.
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Beware: Nobody wants to be lonely0
- Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
- 15/01/2018
Ageing in Europe comes with more profound side effects than uncertain budgets and welfare state spending do. One of them is old age loneliness that exacerbates one’s health and social integration. Parallel to designing a policy framework on a communal level to combat loneliness, one should rightfully consider approaching the issue from an every-day, personal angle.
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PESCO – One “Giant Leap” Towards European Defence?0
PESCO, a dormant Lisbon Treaty provision to deepen defence integration among EU Member States, finally saw the light of day. While broad questions remain about the future of European defence, the initiative surely promises to be the biggest leap forward for the bloc’s defence policy in decades.
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The truth behind the BitCoin media hype2
- Digital Policy and Internet Governance, Op-ed
- 13/12/2017
Imagine if every time you read about breast cancer in the newspaper there was an image of a crab holding onto a breast next to the article.
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Does faster legislation come at the cost of transparency?0
- EU Governance and Politics, Op-ed
- 10/12/2017
One of the main goals of the post-Lisbon Institutional reforms was to make EU decision-making more efficient. Following many claims that EU legislative processes are overly bureaucratized, the main goal of such efforts was to make the EU law-making more fit for the many ongoing challenges requiring great institutional re-activeness. The result of such fitness operation is quite striking.
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Japan-EU trade deal: an uneven road ahead for EU car manufacturers?1
- International Trade, Op-ed
- 07/12/2017
The Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (JEEPA) is especially beneficial for the Japanese car industry as it reduces tariff barriers on car imports from Japan. This new deal reinforces Japan’s trade strength in the car industry and asserts their growing dominance in the sector. The flip side of the deal ‘coining’ reveals two interesting aspects. One, in exchange of tariff reduction for Japanese cars, the EU will obtain tariff reductions mainly on its agricultural exports to Japan; more significantly on cheese. Two, the EU automobile market is offering a larger latitude to a country which is already a daunting competitor in the sector. Is the deal sending the EU on an uneven road?
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