The Governor of the Bank of Lithuania, Vitas Vasiliauskas, called, on Friday 28 February in Brussels, for the creation of a "pan-European entity" to fight money laundering in the European Union.
"I am a big fan of a pan-European solution" to have a "centralised" entity active in this field and not just focused on banks, he told some journalists. He expressed his preference for a separate entity from the European Banking Authority, which brings together national banking supervisors and was...