Niamh Saunders, Author at Shaping Europe

German elections 2021: foreseeable trend reversal after sixteen years?

Posted on 28 September 2021
by Sandra Zwick and Niamh Saunders
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The votes are in On Sunday 26th of September 2021, the German federal elections took place. The race had been enticing, but also surprising. Angela Merkel’s party, the CDU (Christian Democratic Union of Germany – conservative/right center) is facing after sixteen years of leading the…

Financial and Monetary Affairs

Exposing the mystery of shadow banking

Posted on 1 April 2021
by Niamh Saunders
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Shedding a light on the significance of the shadow banking sector in the EU. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) exposed a number of crucial fault lines in the global financial and banking systems, of which shadow banking was at the very centre. The period following…

Social Policy

Towards a European minimum wage

Posted on 3 March 2021
by Niamh Saunders
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The challenges of creating a European standard on wages. “I want to ensure that work pays. In a Social Market Economy, every person that is working full time should earn a minimum wage that pays for a decent living. Therefore, we will develop a framework,…