Corporate Europe Observatory

Exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU

The financial lobby

Public debate: Economic governance in Europe - the case of the ECB and the Banking Union

May 16, 2013 - 11:11

 

The Transnational Institute (TNI) and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) are taking the initiative to organise this Public Debate in response to the unprecedented series of Directives and legislation which are fundamentally restructuring economic and political governance in the EU.

Deutsche Bank, the blindfolded regulator, and the 26 billion euro vanishing trick

May 8, 2013 - 10:46
The biggest banks in Europe have little to fear from the EU's new banking regulations. But the public does. Due to loopholes the new rules will not prevent costly bailouts in the future. The risks are made clear in a recent accounting sleight of hand by Deutsche Bank.

Tackling tax evasion: will the Commission listen to anyone but industry?

May 7, 2013 - 11:45
As the European Commission closes the application process for its new Tax Good Governance Platform in the midst of more scandalous news of offshore tax avoidance and evasion, it needs to learn from past mistakes and not allow the Platform to become a lobby tool of the financial industry.

The ECB on the loose

February 12, 2013 - 09:16
The decision of the EU Ombudsman on a complaint filed by Corporate Europe Observatory enables the European Central Bank to associate even more closely with the financial lobby. The timing couldn’t be worse.

The President and the private finance club

January 15, 2013 - 11:35

This month the EU Ombudsman is expected to reach a conclusion on Corporate Europe Observatory’s complaint about the European Central Bank and its President Mario Draghi. It centers on his continuing membership of the Group of Thirty (G30), which violates the Bank's own ethics rules.

Not about safer banks

September 27, 2012 - 08:36
The European banking union has been presented as a cure to the epidemic of bank collapses. Tougher supervision is to make sure we get the financial sector on track. But in the end, the ambitious new project looks more like a renewed push for a deeper single market. The banks themselves are happy.

What was discussed during Commissioner Rehn's meetings with Goldman Sachs? Euro Commissioner has a transparency problem.

September 18, 2012 - 10:51
Since the start of the eurocrisis, the European Commission has gained significant new powers to monitor and intervene in government budgets at a member-state level in the name of ‘economic governance’. But power must be accountable.

Draghi and the Group of Thirty - an intro

September 4, 2012 - 12:46
Corporate Europe Observatory has demanded that the President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi leaves the ‘Group of Thirty’, a club of central bankers and chief executives from private banks. What is the case about?

Time for Draghi to step down from G30

August 1, 2012 - 15:42
The EU Ombudsman has launched an inquiry into European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s membership of the Group of Thirty (G30), following a complaint made by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) last month. The Ombudsman case on Draghi's G30 membership has made headlines across Europe (and beyond). Will this make the ECB answer the questions that CEO has been asking since November 2011? And will Mr. Draghi now step down from the G30?

Draghi faces formal complaint over conflicts of interest

June 27, 2012 - 09:44
Corporate Europe Observatory has filed a formal complaint with the EU Ombudsman concerning European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s membership of a banking lobby groups. As the European Council prepares to give the European Central Bank considerable influence on more issues of direct interest to private banks, the complaint calls into question Mario Draghi’s independence and suggests his involvement in the corporate bankers group creates a conflict of interests

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