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This conference explores how Luxembourg has developed into a major European financial centre despite its small size, examining the roles of financial markets, regulation, lobbying, taxation, and offshore strategies in shaping the European institutional and financial landscape. It brings together academics and practitioners to discuss Luxembourg’s influence on EU financial governance, banking resilience, tax policy, and the evolution of European financial integration.

The event is part of the research activities of the Robert Schuman Initiative – Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.

Programme

• 10.00 – 12.00

  Building Europe’s Financial Centre: Markets, Lobbying, and Offshore Strategies

  President of the session: Simon Watteyne (����Vlog)

  • EU-FUND”: Regulation, Cross-Border Competition, and Offshore Practices in the Making of Europe’s Mutual Fund Market (1945–Present) – Matteo Calabrese (����Vlog)
  • The ABBL on the European Front: Lobbying and Representation of Luxembourg’s Financial Centre in the EU Policy-Making Process (1939-2005) – Aurore Treutens (����Vlog)
  • An offshore financial center inside Europe. Luxembourg, taxation and EEC (1960s-1980s) – Benoît Majerus (����Vlog)
  • Mapping European Monetary Innovation through the Luxembourg Financial Centre: strategies, actors, networks – Elena Danescu (����Vlog)

• 13.00 – 15.00

  European Financial Governance: Borrowing, Banking Resilience, and Institutional Opportunities

  President of the session: Marta Morena (����Vlog)

  • The Rise and Rise of European Borrowing: EU Solidarity meets Luxembourg’s National Interest – David Howarth and Lukas Spielberger (����Vlog, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  • Measuring the Resilience of European Banks: Lessons from Stress Tests and Systemic Risk Indicators – Diane Pierret (����Vlog)
  • EU financial institutions in Luxembourg: a windfall for the Luxembourg Stock Exchange –
    Michel Maquil (Luxembourg Stock Exchange)

• 15.30 – 17.00

  Taxation, Transparency, and Financial Services in the EU Legal Landscape

  President of the session: Tanguy José (Sciences Po)

  • EU tax harmonization and its impact on Luxembourg as a financial center – Aikaterini Pantazatou (����Vlog)
  • Quelles influences dans la consécration et la transparence du mécanisme des décisions anticipées en droit luxembourgeois (rulings)? – Fatima Chaouche (Cour administrative – Luxembourg)
  • VAT and Financial Services: Luxembourg’s Role in the EU Tax Landscape –
    Julie Kaprielian (Chambre des Députés)

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