Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, is a former French foreign minister and minister for Europe.
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Michel Barnier
Commentaries by Michel Barnier
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A New Year’s Banking Union
BRUSSELS – Five years after the outbreak of the financial crisis, Europe’s economic and political situation remains fragile. A mild recessio…
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Europe and the Global Food Crisis
PARIS – The world has been shaken by unprecedented spikes in food prices, by hunger riots, and by social tensions that demonstrate that food…
A New Year’s Banking Union
Rimvydas Mieliauskas: A global crisis - forecast... My letter is about the next stage of the current crisis. Now about my forecast accuracy - as I chose a job in Scotland in 2005, I have been thinking about this crisis;…
A New Year’s Banking Union
André Rebentisch: I had assumed that the supervision would be in the hands of the antitrust purvue, meaning "too big to fail" = "too big". How to batten down the hatches? How to limit the risk exposition of single inst…