Progress towards Capital Markets Union will be slow

Capital Markets Union (CMU) is regarded by many European policymakers as one of the key reforms needed to close the gap between EU and US productivity. But a full CMU is a long way off, and in any case fragmented capital markets are just one source of Europe’s underperformance relative to the US.

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