{"id":51940,"date":"2009-11-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporatejustice.org\/Press-conference-A-Captive,551.html"},"modified":"2009-11-05T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T09:00:00","slug":"press-conference-a-captive-commission-an-alter%e2%80%93eu-report-on-the-role-of-the-financial-industry-in-shaping-eu-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/51940","title":{"rendered":"Press conference: A Captive Commission An ALTER\u2013EU report on the role of the financial industry in shaping EU regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='rss_texte'>\n<p class=\"spip\">As the European Commission attempts to find ways out of the financial<br \/>\ncrisis, a new report from ALTER-EU analyses the composition of groups<br \/>\nwhich gave or still give advice to the Commission on financial issues<br \/>\nsuch as banking regulation, hedge funds, credit rating agencies,<br \/>\naccountancy rules and tax havens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">ALTER-EU will present the findings of its report \u2018A Captive Commission \u2013<br \/>\nthe role of the financial industry in shaping EU regulation&#8217; which<br \/>\nreveals an overwhelming dominance of representatives from the financial<br \/>\nindustry on advisory bodies, and highlight the need for the Commission<br \/>\nto reform the way it gathers expert advice if it is to achieve real<br \/>\nchange in the financial sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">Speakers at the press conference:<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">Paul de Clerck, member of ALTER-EU&#8217;s steering committee will present the<br \/>\nfindings of the report and make recommendations to policy makers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the Party of European Socialists, ex<br \/>\nDanish Prime minister and MEP and current leading campaigner for<br \/>\nfinancial reform in Europe<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">and<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">Sven Giegolds, MEP for the Greens, member of Economic and Monetary<br \/>\nAffairs Committee and member of the Parliament&#8217;s new Special Committee<br \/>\non the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">will comment on the report&#8217;s findings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">Yiorgos Vassalos, co-author of the report will respond to methodological<br \/>\nand technical questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">Language of the press conference: English<br \/>\nLanguages available for interviews: English, Dutch, French, Greek<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">For more information please contact:<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">Francesca Gater, communications officer for Friends of the Earth Europe:<br \/>\n+32 2 893 1010 or + 32 4 85 930 515, <a href=\"#\" title=\"francesca.gater..\u00e5t..foeeurope.org\" onclick=\"location.href=http:\/\/www.corporatejustice.org\/lancerlien('francesca.gater','foeeurope.org'); return false;\" class=\"spip_out\">francesca.gater<span class=\"spancrypt\"> <\/span>foeeurope.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">Please find venue access and location information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firsteuroflathotel.be\/situation.php\" class=\"spip_out\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the European Commission attempts to find ways out of the financial crisis, a new report from ALTER-EU analyses the composition of groups which gave or still give advice to the Commission on financial issues such as banking regulation, hedge funds, credit rating agencies, accountancy rules and tax havens. ALTER-EU will present the findings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}