The quadrupling of oil prices since the end of 1973 was accompanied by a rapid increase in the borrowings of developing countries. A global view of their external debt situation reveals some alarming realities.

Although harmonization of EC banking laws has only just started, it does already have some practical significance, because in adjustments of national laws account is taken to some extent of the ideas developed on the level of the Community. Nevertheless, a number of problems make it doubtful...

This paper assesses the effectiveness of the Meroni doctrine in the light of the recent judgment in the ESMA case. The first part explains in detail the problem of delegation of powers in the EU from the perspective of the principal-agent theory and complements it with the analysis of the...