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  • What a banking union means for Europe
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 05 December 2012
    What a banking union means for Europe
  • Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
    Policy brief by Simon Tilford, 05 November 2012
    Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
  • Britain, Europe and the City of London: Can the triangle be managed?
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 20 July 2012
    Britain, Europe and the City of London
  • Financial headache
    Opinion piece by Alasdair Murray
    E!Sharp, 01 April 2005

    Significant progress has been made in liberalising financial services. But Alasdair Murray argues that the EU risks losing sight of the potential economic gains to be made by going further.
  • A fair referee? The European Commission and EU competition policy
    Report by Alasdair Murray, 01 October 2004

    The EU's policies for enforcing competition and restricting state subsidies are among its biggest success stories. But the way the European Commission conducts these policies is coming under attack.
  • Over but far from finished - The EU's financial services action plan
    Policy brief by Alasdair Murray, 01 September 2004

    The EU has now all but completed the legislative phase of its financial services action plan (FSAP). The action plan is an attempt to reduce the legal obstacles which prevent businesses – whether banks, insurance companies or stock exchanges – from selling their services seamlessly across the EU.
  • Is tax competition bad?
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 02 August 2004

    EU enlargement was meant to be a cause for celebration. But one seemingly esoteric issue is threatening to spoil the fun: taxation. West Europeans fear that low tax rates in the new member-states will lure companies eastward, taking jobs and investment with them.
  • EU enlargement: How to reap the benefits
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Economic Trends, 04 June 2004

    The overall economic impact of EU enlargement is likely to remain small. The newcomers are tiny compared with the existing EU countries and most economic integration has already taken place.

  • Manufacturing first: A new way forward for global trade
    Working paper by Bruce Stokes, 07 May 2004

    Global trade negotiations inside the WTO remain stalled. Recently, negotiators have talked up the prospects for progress in the 'Doha development round' – but no one is expecting an imminent breakthrough.
  • Arrival delayed
    Opinion piece by Alasdair Murray
    The Parliament Magazine, 22 March 2004

    The fact that the EU is not going to meet all its targets should not lead commentators to condemn the whole Lisbon programme, writes Alasdair Murray. At the Lisbon summit in the spring of 2000, EU leaders signed up to an ambitious economic reform programme that is designed to close the economic gap with the United States.

  • From strength to strength
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Parliament Magazine, 23 February 2004

    Will the strong euro strangle Europe's economic recovery asks Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform. Every year since 2000, economists have predicted a recovery in the eurozone. Every year, they have been disappointed. Will 2004 be any different?