Rushed proposal for banking union

NFU News 2012-09-24NFU News The European Central Bank should be responsible for a single supervisor for all the 6000 banks in the Eurozone – that is the key message in the European Commission’s new proposal for setting up a Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). The...

NFU-seminar on Return on Equity

NFU News 2012-09-18NFU News Return on equity is not one of the traditional trade union issues. Yet it affects us more and more – in a world where the ‘market’ always seems to have the last say. Jobs are cut, companies restructured and employees are expected to fulfil...

Fewer Nordic seats in European Parliament

NFU News NFU News 2014, at the next elections to the European Parliament, the Nordic region will loose four seats in total. Denmark and Finland will both loose one seat, while Sweden will have two fewer MEP’s – Members of the European Parliament. The number of seats...

Libor scandal erodes confidence

NFU News 2012-09-10NFU News Finance employees are often the first to be negatively affected by financial scandals, being confronted by threats and accusations from angry customers as well as layoffs and bad working environments. Now they have to face another ordeal as...