Target2 is the Eurozone's cross-border payment system and is mandatory for the settlement of euro transactions involving Eurozone central banks. It is being used to save the Eurozone from imploding. A key underlying problem is that the Eurozone does not satisfy the economic conditions for being...

The UK Pensions Act 2004 has turned the defined benefit pension promise into a pension guarantee and has established the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) in order to secure this guarantee where a company becomes insolvent and the scheme is underfunded. The Act has greatly upset corporate pension...

The European Union is dumping its goods on world markets, especially in the UK, because the euro is a structurally undervalued currency. First, the euro is an ‘incomplete' currency. Unlike every other currency, there is no single sovereign standing behind it. Each member state of the Eurozone...

The European Union is dumping its goods on world markets, especially in the UK, because the euro is a structurally undervalued currency. First, the euro is an ‘incomplete’ currency. Unlike every other currency, there is no single sovereign standing behind it. Each member state of the...

Many people can now see that the EU project has lost touch with the normal arrangements that govern successful western economies. But less obvious is that the EU’s financial system and its legal underpinnings are weak. As this analysis shows, EU law sidesteps the Basel standards – the...