person:kenneth haar

Leaked document shows EU is going for a trade deal that will weaken #financial_regulation
▻http://www.corporateeurope.org/financial-lobby/2014/07/leaked-document-shows-eu-going-trade-deal-will-weaken-financial-reg

According to a leaked document, the EU is bent on using the #TTIP negotiations with the US to get an agreement on financial regulation that, according to this analysis by Kenneth Haar of Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and Myriam Vander Stichele of The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) will weaken reform and control of the financial sector.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ismB8IKsqmk

Comment les Européens poussent les Américains à déréguler la finance
►http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2014/07/01/comment-les-europeens-poussent-les-americains-a-dereguler-la-finance_4448798

Dans le cadre des négociations sur l’accord commercial transatlantique, les Européens s’apprêteraient à faire une proposition demandant moins de règles pour les banques et les marchés financiers et remettant en cause le travail d’encadrement de ce secteur réalisé depuis la crise.

Stop listening to banks (Corporate Europe Observatory)
►http://www.corporateeurope.org/EU-in-crisis-conf/essays/stop-listening-banks

The financial and economic crises have revealed the entrenched power of the banks in the European Union. In this EU in Crisis essay, Corporate Europe Observatory’s Kenneth Haar describes how a wave of financial regulation was set in motion by the crisis in 2008. By now most of this regulation has been passed, and there’s plenty of evidence to show that the banks are being let off the hook. Looking back, banking lobbyists can conclude that decision makers have practically fallen over themselves to serve the banking industry’s interests. The dream of a European Union that would curb the power of finance has become a joke, and instead we’ve seen a bankers’ Europe emerge that may make even Wall Street envious. (...) Source: Corporate Europe Observatory