Hints and tips:
...“It is not clear what catalyst could unlock [the Banking Union], short of a new crisis,” said Nicolas Véron of the Bruegel think-tank....
...Although it will float the idea of a network of national asset management companies, a proposal for a Europe-wide bad bank set out by Andrea Enria, chair of the ECB’s supervisory arm, has not won traction...
...particularly commissioners Paolo Gentiloni and Didier Reynders, to pursue the EU commitment to closely monitor Greek judicial reform and the defamation lawsuit against Greece’s former chief statistician, Andreas...
...Italy’s Andrea Enria is set to become the eurozone’s chief banking supervisor, after the European Central Bank backed his appointment in a secret ballot on Wednesday despite opposition from Berlin....
...“Making the SSM popular should not be the primary driver here,” said Mr Véron....
...It’s not the level of watertight professionalism you’d expect from the SSM,” said Nicolas Véron, a senior fellow at Bruegel, a think-tank. “You could ask why did the ECB bother with the [proposals]....
...Meanwhile, on May 29, Andreas Georgiou again went on trial for violation of duty while he was president of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (Elstat) from August 2010 to August 2015 (The Big Read, December...
...“The biggest test [facing the SSM] is clearly Italy,” said Nicolas Véron, a senior fellow at Bruegel, a think-tank in Brussels....
...They should send a strong message of commitment to change by calling for an end to the unjust prosecution of Andreas Georgiou....
...Nicolas Véron, a fellow at Brussels think-tank Bruegel, says: “There is a high level of anxiety that reforming the system may imply changing fundamentally an Italian community involving bankers, journalists...
...“If there is a failure in the Greek case this to me will have a big impact on the credibility of the IMF,” says Andrea Montanino, a former IMF board member who now is at the Atlantic Council in Washington...
...Nicolas Véron of the Bruegel think-tank said: “What is coming out of this compromise is unlikely to work....
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