Dear friends, dear interested, Lately, rents and residential real estate prices in most areas have known only one direction: steeply upwards. But while citizens groan under the exploding costs, officials at the ECB have paradoxically been complaining about too low rates of inflation for a long time. This is in part because housing costs have […]
Greens call on the European Commission to not put the credibility of the Sustainable Finance rules at risk
Yesterday, 24 March 2021, Bas Eickhout, co-rapporteur of the Taxonomy Regulation and Sven Giegold, financial and economic policy spokesperson of the Greens/EFA group have sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President Frans Timmermanns and Finance Commissioner Mairead McGuinness. They call on the Commission to refrain from any […]
Hearing at the European Parliament: Lessons from the Wirecard case – Tue, 23 March, 13h45 – 15h45
Dear friends, dear interested, On my initiative, the European Parliament’s Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs, jointly with the Committee for Legal Affairs, will hold a hearing on lessons from the Wirecard case tomorrow, 23 March. I am particularly happy that our invitation was accepted by journalist Dan McCrum of the Financial Times whose stubborn […]
Invitation: “European Green Deal: Setting the Course” High-level online conference of the Green Europe Group – Thursday & Friday
Dear friends, The European Green Deal is the most comprehensive and ambitious climate and environmental protection programme ever launched by the European Union. The Green Deal has what it takes to make Europe a climate-neutral continent and at the same time transform the economy in a socially and ecologically just way. But does the Green […]
Italian-English-German Webinar “The new women’s movement for economic justice”, Tue, 16.03.2021, 21:00 CET
Register for the webinar here! Dear friends, dear interested, Women are affected most by the Covid-19-Crisis. They took on the work of the childcare centres and schools – but are not paid for it. They work overtime in hospitals and care homes. They lose their jobs because of the economic crisis, which followed […]
Time to take stock: ESMA celebrates its 10th Anniversary
Dear friends, dear interested, The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is celebrating its birthday. 10 years have passed since its establishment on 1 January 2011. Time to take stock. On the occasion of its anniversary, ESMA is organising a public online conference on 23 March 2021. At the conference, I will join a high-profile […]