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Law of the EMU and euro

This site provides news, legislation and legal (scholarly) publications on the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). By Atilla Arda LL.M., legal counsel for De Nederlandsche Bank and Ph.D. candidate at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

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The legal duty to consult the European Central Bank

Posted on December 02, 2009
The ECB has published a Legal Working Paper on the duty to consult the European Central Bank on draft legislation within its fields of competence. This duty applies to both European and national authorities. The legal duty to consult the...

IMF Seminar: "Restoring Financial Stability?the Legal Response"

Posted on November 30, 2009
The 10th Seminar on Monetary and Financial Law will be held at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on November 30-December 3, 2009. The theme of the 2009 seminar will be "Restoring Financial Stability?the Legal Response." In the wake of the...

Financial reforms: what are the common lessons for prudential supervisors?

Posted on November 26, 2009
Speech given by Mr Jaime Caruana, General Manager of the BIS, at the IAIS Annual Conference on ?Insurance as a means of socio economic development: financial crisis and the future of insurance markets?, Rio de Janeiro, 22 October 2009

Supervising and resolving large financial institutions

Posted on November 26, 2009
Speech by Mr Daniel K Tarullo, Member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System, at the Institute of International Bankers Conference on Cross-Border Insolvency Issues, New York, 10 November 2009.

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Monetary Law Group on Facebook

Posted on July 09, 2009
Recently I started a Monetary Law group on Facebook targeting professionals interested in the legal aspects of central banking, currency, payment systems, and monetary unions. Ideally, this group should develop into a meeting place for the community of 'monetary lawyers'...

How will the Treaty of Lisbon affect EMU?

Posted on October 01, 2008
On the 10th birthday of the European Union?s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) the Lisbon Treaty was rejected by the Irish voters. Most politicians in favor of the Lisbon Treaty concluded that rejecting this Treaty put a break on the...

The Top 100 Law and Lawyer Blogs

Posted on July 02, 2008
The Criminal Justice Degrees Guide has included 'Law of the EMU and Euro' in its 'Top 100 Law and Lawyer Blogs' list under 'Foreign Law'.

ECB: "unilateral euroization by Iceland comes with real costs and serious risks"

Posted on February 15, 2008
This week the European Central Bank (ECB) objected to possible euroization by Iceland. In a speech at the Iceland Chamber of Commerce, Mr. J�rgen Stark, member of the ECB?s Executive Board, said that he is ?aware that unilateral euroisation is...

Commemorating 10 years of Economic and Monetary Union

Posted on February 01, 2008
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the launch of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the creation of the euro, all euro-area countries will issue a commemorative 2-euro coin with a common design. It will be available at the beginning...

Turkish Language Enters Euro Area

Posted on January 24, 2008
When, at the beginning of this year, Cyprus adopted the euro and joined the euro area, the Turkish language joined the European language community. As a consequence of Cyprus? EU membership al citizens of the Republic of Cyprus are also...

ECB Governors Close to Loosing Their Voting Rights

Posted on January 01, 2008
On January 1, this year, Malta and Cyprus joined the euro area. Now there are 15 countries that use the single European currency, the euro. When one more country joins this group of countries, the new voting rules for the...

Recent ECB Legal Working Papers

Posted on November 12, 2007
THe European Central Bank has published two more legal working papers. Both are available in the Reading Room of this blog. Legal and institutional aspects of the currency changeover following the restoration of the independence of the Baltic States by...

Cross-border euro payments: the Latvian case

Posted on October 15, 2007
The European internal market needed a single currency. So, the EU introduced the euro: as of January 1, 2008, the currency of 15 EU Member States. But what about the internal market for euro payments? Or in EU speak: is...

Public Security Exceptions under Economic and Monetary Union

Posted on October 08, 2007
A short while ago the European Banking and Financial Law Journal published my paper on EU Member State?s power to invoke ? or not ? Article 297 of the EC Treaty to derogate from EC Treaty provisions regarding European Economic...

ECB independence still unresolved under EU Reform Treaty

Posted on October 05, 2007
The legal experts preparing a EU Reform Treaty have finalized their work. However, several political issues remain unresolved. One of these issues is the European Central Bank?s independence and institutional position. After the French and Dutch ?No?, Mr...

Malta: the 14th star of the euro area

Posted on October 02, 2007
Malta is going to adopt the euro on 1 January 2008. As final preparations get under way for the transition, the National Euro Changeover Committee and the Central Bank of Malta, in co-operation with the European Commission and the European...

Recent Developments in the Law of the European Central Bank

Posted on September 25, 2007
Over a decade ago, in 1994 to be more precise, the European Monetary Institute (EMI) was established to strengthen central bank co-operation and monetary policy co-ordination in the European Union. Four years later, in 1998, the EMI was replaced by...

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