Issues for the Budget Countdown

I have written an article on the debate about the upcoming budget for Business and Finance. It’s hidden behind a paywall, so I’ve attached the full text below the fold.

European Parliament Briefing Papers: June 2010

The latest Monetary Dialogue briefing papers for the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs are available here (click on 21.6.10). These papers are provided to help the MEPs on the committee prepare for their June 21 meeting with President Trichet, which promises to be an interesting one. My paper is titled “The Euro, the ECB and the Sovereign Debt Crisis”.  All the papers focus on different aspects of the European sovereign debt issue.

‘Regulation in the Age of Crisis’

An international and interdisciplinary conference on regulatory governance is being held at UCD next week, 17-19 June, under the auspices of the European Consortium of Political Research Standing Group on Regulatory Governance. There will be more than 200 papers presented. Streams include 8 panels on regulation and the financial crisis, and also streams on regulating for sustainability, the politics of regulation, the governance of risk and technology regulation, non-state regulation and regulating network industries. A variety of disciplines are represented, including political science, socio-legal studies, business and economics. The programme, including details of registration, is available on the conference website. The conference papers are being uploaded to this site also and are freely available.

The Regling-Watson Report

This report is available here.

The Honohan Report

You can download the report here.