Bernard Connolly

Bernard Connolly is a British financial analyst , author and former EU official.

Connolly joined the European Commission in 1978 . This was the time when Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing agreed on a European Monetary System (EMS, ERM, today ERM II ). From 1986 he was responsible for analysis and recommendations on the British money market in connection with the European Economic and Monetary Union in the “General Directorate for Economy and Finance” . Since 1990 Connolly has been Head of Unit 3 (EMS, national and Community monetary policy) in Directorate D (Monetary Affairs) of this Directorate-General:

"Mr Connolly's duties included preparing the work of the Monetary Committee, the Monetary Policy Subcommittee and the Board of Governors, as well as participating in these bodies, monitoring monetary policy in the Member States and investigating the monetary consequences of the introduction of the economic and monetary union. "

Since 1991 Connolly has submitted several draft essays on the future of Europe in the European Monetary Union, the publication of which, however, was denied to him under the Statute of Officials. In 1995 he published a book that took the agency to discipline the whistleblower Connolly. In January 1996 he was removed from the service, which was understood , especially in the Eurosceptic British press, as "punishment for blasphemy " and was widely commented on. In 2001 the European Court of Justice upheld Connolly's dismissal as legal, after which Connolly considered referring to the European Court of Human Rights.

After working for the American financial services provider AIG Financial Products Corp. for eleven years . (AIG-FP), a subsidiary of the American International Group , Connolly now works as a consultant.

Works

• Bernard Connolly: The Rotten Heart of Europe: The Dirty War for Europe's Money . Faber & Faber, London 1996, ISBN 0-571-17521-X (not published in German).
• Bernard Connolly: Europe's Italy problem: and, as a result, are monetary union and the euro in serious trouble? from The International Economy. Thomson Gale . 2005.

Web links

• Bernard Connolly's Dark Vision for the World Economy USAGOLD, 2002
• http://www.connollyinsight.com/
• Case files Connolly Commission European Court of Justice , search form Az. C-274/99 P

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Case C-274/99 P.
2. ↑ Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU
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