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By Antoine KREMER, ABBL ALFI Head of European Affairs
After a recent series of money-laundering scandals in a number of Mediterranean and Baltic Member States, it was just a matter of time for the Commission to react with a legislative initiative. The European executive did so on 12 September via a proposal for a regulation announced by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker himself in his 2018 State of the European Union (SotEU) speech in front of the European Parliament’s assembled members.
In the legislative proposal the Commission refrains from creating from scratch a new European agency or authority specialized in the fight against money-laundering and terrorist financing. With the end of the mandate of the European Parliament...
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