Pedro Gustavo Teixeira, "The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market" (Hart, 2020)
Today I talked to\xa0Pedro Gustavo Teixeira about his new book\xa0The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market\xa0(Hart, 2020)\nSince 1950, the political and economic integration of Europe has tended to accelerate through functional mini-unions: coal and steel, nuclear power, and \u2013 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic - it could well be healthcare next. The most recent of these mini-federations is the European Banking Union; born out of necessity at the height of the sovereign-debt crisis in 2012-13 but, as this new history emphasises, built on foundations laid in the 1970s.\nWithin three years of its political green light, the EBU's core agencies - the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) under the authority of the European Central Bank and the Single Resolution Mechanism - were in place yet, while huge changes have taken place, critical business has been left unfinished. "A regime geared towards ever more integration with distributive consequences, but without stabilisation capacity in the form of risk-sharing among member states and largely insulated from democratic politics will likely not be sustainable", writes Pedro Gustavo Teixeira.\nPedro Gustavo Teixeira is director-general of governance and operations of the Single Supervisory Mechanism of the European Central Bank, secretary of its Supervisory Board, and a lecturer at the institute for law and finance at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.\xa0(Any views\xa0expressed are personal and not necessarily those of the ECB).\n*The author's own book recommendation is\xa0Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century\xa0by Mark Mazower (Penguin, 1999 - latest edition 2018).\nTim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law