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NEW PUBLICATION in the “EBI eBook Series”:
LIBER AMICORUM in Memory of Cynthia Lichtenstein: “International, Regional and Comparative Financial and Monetary Law” (30 July 2026)
Christos V. Gortsos and Rosa María Lastra (editors)
NEW PUBLICATIONS in the “EBI WPS”:
  • WPS No. 212: “The ESMA and its Potential Transformation into a “genuine” EU capital markets supervisor under the Savings and Investments Union (SIU) project: Towards a Capital Markets Single Supervisory Mechanism (CM-SSM) (2026)” 
    by
    Christos Gortsos on 28 August 2026; and
  • WPS No. 211: “Freedom of Contract and Sustainability Considerations in the European Financial Sector”
    by
    Danny Busch on 14 July 2026.
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EBI Regulatory Report #268

EBI Report onEconomic Policy and Financial Regulation Measures:International, EU and Euro Area Levels(12 September 2026) Professor Dr. Christos V. Gortsos and Daphne Farmaki(Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)   Download Report #268   Key developments during the week 7-11

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EBI Regulatory Report #267

EBI Report onEconomic Policy and Financial Regulation Measures:International, EU and Euro Area Levels(5 September 2026) Professor Dr. Christos V. Gortsos and Daphne Farmaki(Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)   Download Report #267   All previous reports are kept in

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Archive: 14 July 2025 – 17 July 2026

EBI Report onEconomic Policy and Financial Regulation Measures:International, EU and Euro Area Levels(Archive: 14 July 2025 – 20 July 2026) Professor Dr. Christos V. Gortsos and Daphne Farmaki(Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Download Archive    

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Publication: Working Paper Series No. 212

“The ESMA and its Potential Transformation into a “genuine” EU capital markets supervisor under the Savings and Investments Union (SIU) project: Towards a Capital Markets Single Supervisory Mechanism (CM-SSM)” by Christos Gortsos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, was published

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Publication: Working Paper Series No. 211

“Freedom of Contract and Sustainability Considerations in the European Financial Sector” by Danny Busch, Radboud University Nijmegen, was published on 14 July 2026 in EBI Working Paper Series No. 211. In the European financial sector, sustainability considerations increasingly restrict the

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EBI Regulatory Report #266

This is the final issue of the EBI Regulatory Report for the current academic year.The publication of the RegReport will resume after the summer break. We wish you a pleasant summer!   EBI Report onEconomic Policy and Financial Regulation Measures:International, EU

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