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Eurozone crisis: Higher inflation is part of the answer

Insight by Simon Tilford
03 October 2011

The ECB’s inflation target is too low for a currency union. It risks depressing economic growth and makes it hard for countries like Spain and Italy to regain competitiveness.
Issue 80 October/November 2011

23 September 2011
Sticking to the rules will not rescue the eurozone
By Philip Whyte
Has Europe given up on fighting climate change?
By Stephen Tindale
Merkel's euro shackles
By Katinka Barysch
The euro: Reaching the endgame?

Insight by Simon Tilford
19 September 2011

Eurozone policy-makers have dug in their feet, preferring to deepen the crisis than admit their mistakes. Unless reason trumps moral posturing soon, dissolution of the eurozone is inevitable.
Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy?

Report by Christof van Agt, Václav Bartuška, Katinka Barysch, Jonathan Gaventa, Connie Hedegaard, Dieter Helm, Maïté Jauréguy-Naudin, Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Nick Mabey, Günther Oettinger, Pernille Schiellerup, Stephen Tindale, Frank Umbach, Georg Zachmann, Katinka Barysch, Stephen Tindale
09 September 2011

Is the EU's policy on renewables damaging the single market? Why do Europeans not use energy more efficiently? Is the EU's gas policy too obsessed with Russia?
What Libya says about future NATO operations

Insight by Tomas Valasek
26 August 2011

In Libya, the Europeans have for the first time responded to Washington's calls to assume responsibility for their neighbourhood. This should be cause for cautious optimism about NATO.
The US and the EU should support the Palestinian bid for UN membership

Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell
25 August 2011

The US and the EU should support the Palestinian request for UN recognition. If framed constructively, the Palestinian initiative can strengthen the prospects for peace.
Race to the bottom

Insight by Tomas Valasek
24 August 2011

For decades, European countries cut defence budgets with little worry. The United States kept enough troops on the continent to deter all potential enemies, almost irrespective of how small European militaries became.
Eurozone crisis: Can contagion to Italy be arrested?

Insight by Philip Whyte
05 August 2011

The eurozone's debt crisis has spread to Italy. It is becoming increasingly doubtful that much-needed domestic economic reforms will be sufficient to restore market confidence in the country.