The UK’s EU Referendum: the 1975 Precedent and Today’s Vote (Bruegel Policy Contribution)
I’m publishing today a new Policy Contribution for Bruegel, on the forthcoming vote about the UK’s EU membership.
Diving into Hillary Clinton’s emails is not easy, and is in urgent need of improvement
The State Department has released about 300 of Hillary Clinton’s emails on 22 May 2015 under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This collection of emails reflects many of the issues and frustrations associated with research in digitalised archives.
European leaders want the UK to stay, but are best friends forever?
As it begins its EU renegotiation, the UK risks antagonising even close allies such as Germany.
What Hillary Clinton’s “emailgate” tells us about archival practices and the historian’s work
Hillary Clinton used her personal email while she was Secretary of State: this raises interesting questions in terms of archival practice and for the historian’s work.
Beyond HSBC and Swissleaks: tax havens and international banking
The HSBC tax evasion scandal and the so-called Swissleaks brought to the fore one of the most classic financial strategies of the past half century: the internationalisation of banking to offshore centres practicing lax regulatory and supervisory regime.
‘Trust is good, control is better’: The 1974 Herstatt Bank Crisis and its Implications for International Regulatory Reform
With its international supervisory and regulatory implications, the failure of Bankhaus Herstatt is one of the landmarks of post-war financial history. This article offers the first comprehensive historical account of the Herstatt crisis, and contributes to the wider discussions on international supervisory and regulatory reform since the mid-1970s.
Excitement and frustration: the publication of the first ECB “minutes”
The ECB has published its first “minutes” of the Governing Council, following up a promise made last year.
Beyond deus ex machina: Rethinking the EMS creation, 1974-1979
The traditional story of European monetary cooperation in the 1970s following the abandonment of the Werner Plan in 1974, most often told …
A Capital Markets Union for Europe, from Claudio Segré to Jean-Claude Juncker
What is particularly striking about this Capital Markets Union (CMU) discussion is that it is a rather old topic of debate within the EU – one that first emerged at a time when the European financial puzzle was set very differently.