Even though the financial crisis might have started in the US, CEPS Director Daniel Gros finds in a new CEPS Policy Brief that even more combustible material had accumulated in Europe, and that therefore that it likely that the cost will be higher here and the recovery slower than on the other...

Following the June 2012 European Council decision to place the ‘Single Supervisory Mechanism' (SSM) within the European Central Bank, the general presumption in the policy discussions has been that there should be ‘Chinese walls' between the supervisory and monetary policy arms of the ECB....

In the wake of the Irish no-vote on the Treaty of Lisbon, numerous scenarios are currently being debated. This paper critically assesses the legality and political feasibility of the principal proposals and then puts forward an alternative 'Plan B', which the authors believe would amply satisfy...