•  Second, common supervision is likely to make national banking systems less likely to become swept up in the fiscal problems of their respective domestic governments. This is because it is easier for a supranational supervisory authority than national supervisors to intervene when domestic banks are co-opted to provide overly cheap loans to the government or to households.
Some 83% of individuals responding to a Eurobarometer survey regard “fake news” and online disinformation as a threat to democracy. 6 On the other hand, public trust in science remains high. According to a survey conducted in the United States by the Pew Research Center, public confidence in the scientific community has remained unchanged at its high level since the 1970s (Funk 2017).