Opinion pieces

  • Interview: La ricetta anticrisi della Germania è illogica, by Simon Tilford
    La Repubblica, 20 October 2011

    Per l'economista del Centre for European Reform l'idea di Berlino che i paesi dell'Europa meridionale debbano "vivere con i propri mezzi" è moralistica e controproducente. Le politiche restrittive peggiorano la situazione. L’aiuto cinese non serve.

  • Eurozone 'outs' must stick up for the single market, by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 12 October 2011

    One of the European Union’s greatest achievements has been to scrap non-tariff barriers to trade in goods and services. But the “single market” remains incomplete and faces new threats. The European commissioner responsible for it is blocking further liberalisation of services – even though the Commission as a whole is economically liberal.

  • Resuscitating the euro, by Charles Grant
    The National Interest, 07 October 2011

    For almost two years, the eurozone has been stricken with a potentially fatal malaise. Three crises have intermingled and reinforced each other: Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain face crises of excessive debt (public and private); those same countries suffer from anemic economic growth; and much of the European Union is afflicted with a banking crisis.

  • Europe doesn’t lack funds, just political will, by Simon Tilford
    Financial Times, 26 September 2011

    The following article was written in response to 'Only the IMF can solve eurozone crisis' by Ragharam Rajan, published in the Financial Times, 26 September 2011.

  • Het einde van de euro, by Simon Tilford
    NRC Weekend, 25 September 2011

    De beleidsmakers van de eurozone, en vooral de Duitsers en de Nederlanders, zijn niet in staat gebleken uit te stijgen boven hun overmoed en morele betweterij, zodat de eurozone maar heel weinig munitie heeft om de komende financiële storm te trotseren.

  • Book review - Innovation in Europe lacks 'creative destruction': CER report states, by EurActiv
    EurActiv, 08 September 2011

    European innovation policies lack the "creative destruction" widely accepted in the US, raising barriers for businesses seeking to find new ideas and applications, according to a report compiled by the Centre for European Reform, a British think-tank.

  • Why the EU and Turkey need to co-ordinate their foreign policies, by Katinka Barysch
    Carnegie, 31 August 2011

    The idea of an EU-Turkey foreign policy dialogue has been catching on in European and Turkish policy circles over the last couple of years.

  • La via maestra degli eurobond, by Simon Tilford
    Il sole 24 Ore, 10 August 2011

    Le debolezze istituzionali dell'eurozona sono state messe a nudo. Il tentativo di attuare una politica monetaria comune senza un Tesoro comune è fallito.