Section I: The Broad Picture1 Is the European Union going to help us overcome the COVID-19 crisis (Danny Busch)2 COVID-19 and European banks: no time for lawyers (Wolf-Georg Ringe)3 The COVID-19 crisis and financial regulation (Eddy Wymeersch)4 Culutral reforms in Irish banks. Walking the walk...

The pandemic crisis, which broke out in early 2020, is still affecting human lives and economic activity around the globe, causing unprecedented transformations which were not foreseen just before its onset. The European Union, its citizens and the financial and non-financial firms active...

Articles 37(10) and 56-58 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 15 May 2014, “establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms (...)” (hereinafter the ‘BRRD') govern the provision of ‘extraordinary...