GUE/NGL MEPs have voiced their concerns about the EU's future banking union architecture in a plenary debate on the issue.

GUE/NGL MEP Jürgen Klute said: "An internal market must go hand in hand with banking supervision rules but these must apply across the board, not just in eurozone countries."

He continued: "There is a concentration of power that is difficult to accept in the ECB. It is not acceptable that the ECB refuses any kind of democratic accountability, particularly on the banking supervision part of its work."

„European Public Health 20 years after the Maastricht Treaty -- Turning past experiences into visions” is the motto of a conference which will be held by the Department of International Health, Maastricht University, on May 22 – 23, 2013, in Maastricht (Netherlands). Partners supporting the event are the European Health Forum Gastein, the Maastricht Centre for European Governance, the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission as well as the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).

“Europe will now get modern legislation on the management of a bank in crisis and of banking crises”, says Gunnar Hökmark MEP and the Parliament's rapporteur for the Bank Recovery and Resolution directive following Monday's vote in the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.

“I am very happy that the Committee has given its broad support in clarifying the responsibility of shareholders and investors as well as for the tools which will provide stability to the financial markets in times of systemic crises," continues Gunnar Hökmark.