A European Directive to break the glass ceiling? Gender imbalance in corporate boards undermines the optimal functioning of the labour market for top management functions and therefore affects the overall performance of companies. A new Directive must break the glass ceiling for non-executive directors. Tom Dijkhuizen • November 26, 2012
Top secret: Terrorist Finance Tracking Program agreement 2 years on While in 2010 the European Parliament gave a green light to the EU-US TFTP agreement, recently MEPs critically questioned the Commission on its implementation. What went wrong with the banking data sharing deal? Iryna Ievdokymova • November 13, 2012
Fifty shades of grey In a greying labour market, active ageing is necessary. We need to work to a higher age. A prohibition of age discrimination has too little effect, though. Barend Barentsen • October 30, 2012 • 2 comments
It is not about the economy The EU, and in particular the Eurozone, is facing a political, economic and monetary crisis. Many people are asking the question why some states were allowed to join the Union in the first place. Reijer Passchier • October 23, 2012 • 1 comment
The Golden Rule adopted in Dutch legislation? The Netherlands is required to introduce the golden rule – a balanced budget rule – in national law. In a recently tabled bill the Dutch government will comply with this European obligation. However, some critical remarks can be made about this new bill. • October 05, 2012
One supervisor to break the vicious link between sovereign debt and bank debt The financial crisis has, in the opinion of the European Commission, shown that mere coordination between domestic financial supervisors is not enough. A single supervisory mechanism is needed to break the vicious link between sovereign debt and bank debt. Tom Dijkhuizen • September 28, 2012
‘Please sir, I want some more’, Oliver Twist and denying rights on the basis of State aid law Can a subsidizing party, on the basis of State aid law, deny an undertaking its right under national law? Alke Metselaar • August 28, 2012
Expansion of the ESM powers: Treaty change or not? Eurozone leaders recently decided that the ESM should expand its powers and provide direct aid to banks. Is this allowed under the current ESM treaty or is a treaty change (and thus a new round of ratification of national parliaments) necessary? • July 05, 2012
Why don’t Dutch judges want to know about State aid law? Interest amongst judges for State aid law seems to be limited. This is unfortunate, because State aid law is arguably fundamental to EU law. On the other hand… who can really blame them? Alke Metselaar • June 26, 2012
