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Towards a new system of financial regulation

Insight by Philip Whyte
23 April 2009

The financial crisis is often portrayed as the product of weak regulation in the Anglosphere. But it is more accurate to think of it as the result of flawed thinking (and policy) across the global financial system as a whole. One reason is that countries outside the Anglosphere have also experienced unsustainable credit and housing market booms.
Towards a better EU migration policy

Insight by Hugo Brady
08 April 2009

Over the last decade, EU countries have experienced a rapid rise in both legal and illegal migration, mostly from Turkey, Morocco, Albania, Algeria and Serbia. Each spring and summer, Mediterranean member-states struggle to cope as migrants perish attempting to reach Europe from North Africa in unseaworthy and over-crowded boats.
The G20 summit – a distraction?

Insight by Simon Tilford
03 April 2009

The good news first. The summit delivered more than expected. The trebling of the funds available to the IMF goes well beyond anything expected and is very welcome.
The Europeans at the London summit

Insight by Katinka Barysch
01 April 2009

Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, threatens to walk out of the London G20 summit unless France gets its way on tougher financial regulation. The toppled Czech Prime Minister, Mirek Topolanek, who happens to hold the EU presidency, describes the US fiscal stimulus as “the road to hell”.
What the economic crisis means for the EU's eastern policy

Policy brief by Tomas Valasek
01 April 2009

The EU's new 'eastern partnership' risks being undermined by the economic crisis. The initiative offers countries like Armenia and Ukraine fresh incentives, such as free-trade agreements and easier visa regimes, to adopt European norms of democracy and open markets.
Issue 65 April/May 2009

27 March 2009
Europe's flagging response to the financial crisis
By Philip Whyte
Carbon price collapse threatens the EU's climate agenda
By Simon Tilford
In the name of EU solidarity
By Katinka Barysch
What if the eurozone broke up?

Insight by Tomas Valasek
23 March 2009

The future of the euro may not be secure, warned the CER’s Simon Tilford in a January 2009 essay. The current economic crisis threatens to exacerbate the tensions within the eurozone, and an insolvent member-state... could default and leave the eurozone.
How serious is the threat to the single market?

Insight by Simon Tilford
19 March 2009

There has been a lot of anguished talk about how the EU’s single market is under threat. Much of this alarm has focused on government support for struggling car firms and public bail-outs of crisis-ridden banks.