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10 Most Recent Speeches
On Supervision and Crisis Management
Speech by Sharon Bowles MEP delivered to European Parliament Plenary session on Tue 6th Jul 2010
Despite good things in Solvency 2 which have already been mentioned, we shelved the group support regime due to concerns over its practicality in periods of economic stress, its interplay with national insolvency laws and mistrust of other countries' supervisors.
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On the review of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD 3)
Speech by Sharon Bowles MEP delivered to European Parliament Plenary session on Tue 6th Jul 2010
Reform of Bank Capital is Europe's most important legislative response to the Crisis so far, and deserves big billing alongside supervision.
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European Financial Stability Facility & European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism
Speech by Sharon Bowles MEP on Tue 6th Jul 2010
In so many matters nowadays, the expression 'the devil is in the detail' is quoted. At times this is becoming too much of an excuse for pronouncing conclusions aimed at markets, without realising that a less than fulsome follow-up negates the conclusions, or even does more harm than good. I said this again about Bank stress tests, where we need transparent and credible assumptions as well as results, I said it earlier when it was taking too long to come up with detail on the Greek rescue, and the Committee has in fact been demanding more detail for months. We are the devils that look at the detail, and we want it.
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Market Abuse
Speech by Sharon Bowles MEP delivered to Commission Consultation on Market Abuse on Fri 2nd Jul 2010
Thank you for inviting me to speak here today. I am as ever happy to share my thoughts and those of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee with you.
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Council Conclusions
Speech by Sharon Bowles MEP delivered to President Herman van Rompuy on Wed 23rd Jun 2010
President van Rompuy, I am pleased to see you but as chair of ECON, I would rather like to see more of you, in committee, in your Task Force role because when you come up with ideas, any multi-lateral surveillance will come to us under co- decision and the longer we are out of the loop, the longer it will take us to understand and agree the decisions you make. We have some ideas too.
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Quality of Statistical Data
Speech by Sharon Bowles MEP on Tue 15th Jun 2010
The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee is consistent and united in its view that Eurostat has to be strengthened and we have, for a long time, been in pursuit of establishing higher-quality statistical data.
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Credit Rating Agencies
Speech by Sharon Bowles MEP on Tue 15th Jun 2010
Not so long ago, voices were raised to say that rating agencies should not have downgraded Greek and other bonds. "Look what it has done to the Euro?" they said.
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The work of ECON in the face of financial crisis
Speech by Sharon Bowles MEP delivered to International Capital Market Association on Thu 27th May 2010
Thank you for inviting me, I am pleased to be here and I will try and give you a flavour of where we have got to in the Parliament on a range of legislative issues, and also some forward looking thoughts on topical issues.
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