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This policy portal provides a public interest perspective on the issues at stake and ongoing legislative debates in the field of financial regulation.

As major rules for financial institutions are set at the EU rather than national level, EU legislators play the key role. Adequate rules are of crucial importance, as the size, complexity and influence of the financial system have reached unprecedented levels. Challenges like digitalisation or accelerating climate change need to be addressed too. There is a long way to go to make finance truly serve the economy and society.

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Policy brief

16/02/2022

Public Finance

Policy brief – “Breaking The Stalemate: Upgrading EU economic governance for the challenges ahead”

Thirty years after Maastricht and faced with serious economic, environmental, and social challenges, the time has come for Europe to upgrade its economic governance framework and views of the role played by...

Consultation response

23/12/2021

Public Finance

Maastricht 2.0: Updating EU economic governance for the challenges ahead

Report

12/07/2021

Public Finance

Fiscal Mythology Unmasked

Debunking eight tales about European public debt and fiscal rules. Europe faces serious environmental, economic and social challenges that require a rethink on public intervention. Not free to do as they wish,...

Policy brief

19/03/2021

Public Finance

One Framework to Rule Them All

The European fiscal framework in five questions. A helpful primer that explores the set of rules within the European fiscal framework that constrain EU Member States’ fiscal policy.

Factsheet

19/03/2021

Public Finance

Navigating the Maze

A Finance Watch primer on how to reform European economic governance. European Member States remain constrained by European economic governance – a maze of rules impacting their fiscal and socio-economic policies. Highly...

Open letter

17/02/2021

Public Finance

Reshaping the European Fiscal Framework – English language letter

An open letter sent in February to European Union leaders asking them to review EU economic governance.

Report

02/10/2020

Public Finance

10 Principles for a Sustainable Recovery

On 2 October 2020, Finance Watch published a briefing paper to help legislators strengthen the proposed Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which makes up the core of the EU’s EUR 750bn Next...

Policy brief

13/07/2020

Public Finance

Policy brief: Debt sustainability and a sustainable Covid recovery

Overcoming the dilemma between debt and environmental sustainability in the discussions over a post Covid-19 recovery package. As EU heads of state and government discuss a Covid recovery package, Finance Watch publishes...

Position paper

16/09/2019

Sustainable Finance

Game-changer: Financing the European Green Deal

A civil society briefing on financing a fair ecological transition

Report

22/05/2019

Sustainable Finance

Making Finance Serve Nature – Report

Finance Watch publishes landscape paper on natural capital and ecosystem services

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