PARLIAMENTARY TESTIMONIES

Parliamentary Testimony

EU priorities and the recovery during Covid19

Testimony at the Committee on EU Policies of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

By: Guntram B. Wolff and alihan Topic: Italian Parliament, Macroeconomic policy, Testimonies Date: June 18, 2020

External Publication

Cash outflows in crisis scenarios: do liquidity requirements and reporting obligations give the SRB sufficient time to react?

Bank failures have multiple causes though they are typically precipitated by a rapidly unfolding funding crisis. The European Union’s new prudential liquidity requirements offer some safeguards against risky funding models, but will not prevent such scenarios. The speed of events seen in the 2017 resolution of a Spanish bank offers a number of lessons for the further strengthening of the resolution framework within the euro area, in particular in terms of inter-agency coordination, the use of payments moratoria and funding of the resolution process.

By: Alexander Lehmann and Bruegel Topic: Banking and capital markets, European Parliament, Testimonies Date: March 28, 2018

Parliamentary Testimony

Future of EMU

On 8 March 2018, Guntram B. Wolff discussed the opportunity and options to upgrade the European Monetary Union in his Testimony at the Swedish Parliament’s – Committee on Finance. The author is analysing the current situation of the EMU and make recommendations on how and why stability mechanism should be implemented.

By: Guntram B. Wolff and Bruegel Topic: Riksdag - Swedish Parliament, Testimonies Date: March 9, 2018

Parliamentary Testimony

Could revising the posted workers directive improve social conditions?

This presentation was delivered in Brussels on 31 January 2017 at a hearing of think-tanks, to advise the European Parliament on the revision of the Posting of Workers Directive.

By: Zsolt Darvas and Bruegel Topic: European Parliament, Macroeconomic policy, Testimonies Date: August 29, 2017

Policy Contribution

The impact of the legal and operational structures of euro-area banks on their resolvability

Following the financial crisis, the question of how to handle a big bank’s collapse has come to the fore. This Policy Contribution evaluates the obstacles to resolvability that the legal and operational structures of the large euro-area banks could pose to the European Union’s new resolution regime.

By: Dirk Schoenmaker and Bruegel Topic: Banking and capital markets, European Parliament, Testimonies Date: December 6, 2016

Parliamentary Testimony

Energy policies in Eastern European partners

Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, 1 December 2016.

By: Georg Zachmann and Bruegel Topic: Testimonies Date: December 2, 2016

Parliamentary Testimony

Collaborative economy

Georgios Petropoulos was invited to speak at a workshop on collaborative economy organised by the Internal Market Committee (IMCO) of the European Parliament on November 8.

By: Georgios Petropoulos and Bruegel Topic: European Parliament, Testimonies Date: November 18, 2016

Parliamentary Testimony

Geo-blocking and non audiovisual copyrighted content services

Georgios Petropoulos attended a meeting of IMCO Working Group on the Digital Single Market on November 14.

By: Georgios Petropoulos and Bruegel Topic: European Parliament, Testimonies Date: November 18, 2016

Parliamentary Testimony

EFTA Parliamentary committee on Brexit

Guntram Wolff attended a panel debate on Brexit, organised by the EFTA Parliamentary Committee.

By: Guntram B. Wolff and Bruegel Topic: Testimonies Date: November 18, 2016

Parliamentary Testimony

Rethinking the security of the European Union's gas supply

Presentation at the EPP hearing on the “Winter Energy Package” on 29 June 2016.

By: Simone Tagliapietra, Georg Zachmann and Bruegel Topic: European Parliament, Green economy, Testimonies Date: June 29, 2016