Her experience as finance minister and at private financial institutions such as the investment bank Morgan Stanley enabled Portugal’s Maria Luís Casanova Morgado Dias de Albuquerque, European Commissioner-designate for Financial Services, to demonstrate to MEPs, on Wednesday 6 November, that she has mastered the issues she will have to work on within the ‘von der Leyen II’ Commission. However, she did not put forward any major legislative initiatives for the future, focusing...