Der Westen muss Putins Finanzreserven stilllegen
Interview im Spiegel (online und druck): Here...
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Toughening Financial Sanctions on Russia
Enforcing Energy Sanctions and Reducing Shadow Reserves Effectively Financial sanctions are key in enforcing restrictions on Russian energy exports – in particular the G7/EU oil price cap regime –, due to financial insti...
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Environmental, societal and governance criteria: hit or miss?
Sustainable investing is gaining in popularity as socially conscious clients consider environmental, societal and governance (ESG) criteria when deciding on potential investment. As a result, the financial world is offer...
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The UK’s sovereignty myth
Those who argue that Brexit would let the UK “take back sovereignty” overlook the impact of trade on domestic law-making. This op-ed has also been published on Bruegel, in Kathimerini, Público, Die Zeit, Finans, Nikkei V...
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A European approach to climate finance will make a deal at COP21 more likely
Europe needs to convince poor countries that it is serious about a climate deal. To do this it must act jointly and decisively to shape global climate finance. This op-ed was published in MNI, Kamara Online, Kathemerini,...
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European climate finance: securing the best return
The issue Combating climate change is perhaps the most formidable public policy challenge of our times. Unmitigated climate change will be irreversible. It will place significant costs on future generations, and expose t...
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Capital Markets Union: A vision for the long term
• Capital Markets Union (CMU) is a welcome initiative. It could augment economic risk sharing, set the right conditions for more dynamic development of risk capital for high-growth firms and improve choices and returns f...
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EU to DO 2015-2019: Memos to the new EU leadership
‘There is now a distinct possibility that this crisis will be remembered as the occasion when Europe irretrievably lost ground, both economically and politically’. This was the starting sentence of our memos to the new E...
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