Defending the UK’s most successful industry
by David Steven | Oct 15, 2009
You have to love the Bruges Group, whose response to the financial crisis seems to be to pretend it never happened. I’ve just been invited to one of their events where:
Professor Tim Congdon will warn of the dangers posed by the EU’s unwarranted interference in the City of London, Britain’s most successful industry; which is under threat from the EU. He will discuss the EU’s latest power grab where Brussels is aiming to complete its project to take full control over financial services.
Congdon, whose loathing of David Cameron prompted him to jump ship to UKIP, must be using a different definition of success to most of the rest of us…
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David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
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