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Time to stop the EIB's carbon subsidies

Insight by Stephen Tindale
20 December 2012

The European Investment Bank (EIB) lends half its annual energy pot to efficiency and renewables. But it is still lending to coal. This is inconsistent with climate policies.
Europe's future in an age of austerity

Briefing note by John Springford, Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford
18 December 2012

The CER invited leading economists and policy-makers to debate the implications of fiscal austerity for economic, political and monetary stability.
A multi-tier Europe? The political consequences of the euro crisis

Briefing note by Katinka Barysch
07 December 2012

Euro members must integrate more to save the single currency. But will a two-tier EU destroy the single market and lose the support of the people?
How to expand renewable energy after 2020

Policy brief by Stephen Tindale
07 December 2012

The EU should set targets for renewable energy for 2030 and the end of each subsequent decade, to reach full reliance on renewables by 2060.
What a banking union means for Europe

Essay by Philip Whyte
05 December 2012

A full banking union is needed to stabilise the eurozone. However, even an embryonic union could drive a wedge between the eurozone and the EU-27.
Europe's youth job crisis

Insight by Katinka Barysch
30 November 2012

Some 14 million young people in the EU are not in work or education. German-style apprenticeships and flexible labour markets could help them get jobs.
Issue 87 December/January 2012

26 November 2012
How Britain could leave the EU
By Charles Grant
Germany's opposition and the euro crisis
External author(s): Katinka Barysch
Eurozone: Trouble in the core?
By Simon Tilford
How to confront the carbon crunch

Insight by Stephen Tindale
15 November 2012

To protect the global climate and European industry, the EU needs a stronger Emissions Trading System and border tax adjustments - as Dieter Helm proposes.