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• In Contrast: Responsibility for Environment and Regulation in Finance

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  Ildikó Bartha

  Péter Bordás

  Tamás Horváth M.

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  The more environmental policy comes into the focus of fiscal policies of governments, the more prevailing are the interests in it influencing the governance as a whole. In the context of the European Union, the governmental role of the Member States’ increased less for initiating the (often invoked) environmental protection but such an increase is rather an end in itself. The responsibility for environment seems to represent the bright side, while the reality of financial regulations shows the dark side of government priorities.