Argumentos legales podrían retrasar avances hacia unión bancaria europea

Genevieve Signoret & Patrick Signoret

Una opinión legal del Consejo de la Unión Europea leída por Reuters (vía EurActiv) dice que la agencia única de resolución bancaria propuesta por la Comisión Europea violaría los tratados europeos por tener demasiado poder discrecional.

A proposed agency with sweeping powers to close failing banks in the European Union would violate the bloc’s founding treaties and must have its authority narrowed or shared with a core EU institution, according to a legal opinion from the EU Council of Ministers dated 7 October.

The so-called single resolution mechanism was proposed by the European Commission in July and is a central plank in efforts to stabilise the region’s banking system.

The aim is for an EU-level agency to have powers to wind down failing banks quickly, free of national vested interests which in the past have delayed intervention and helped to prolong the sector’s uncertainties for investors.

The EU proposal calls for setting up a new agency with a board but the legal advisers to the bloc’s member states say in a document seen by Reuters that the planned agency cannot have such wide discretion under EU treaties.

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