Europe's economy Single market EU & US recovery
  • The future of Europe's economy: Disaster or deliverance?
    Report by Paul De Grauwe, George Magnus, Thomas Mayer, Holger Schmieding, 18 September 2013
    The future of Europe's economy: Disaster or deliverance?
  • The CER commission on the UK and the single market
    Insight by John Springford, 07 June 2013
    The CER commission on the UK and the single market
  • Why has the eurozone's recovery been weaker than the US's?
    Bulletin article by Philip Whyte, 24 May 2013
    Why the has eurozone's recovery been weaker than the US's?
  • A 'smart growth' strategy for sustainable development
    Briefing note by Iain Begg, 01 November 2005

    Amid the insults and recriminations which followed the collapse of the EU budget negotiations last June, few people noticed that EU leaders succeeded in reaching agreement on a new sustainable development strategy.
  • Consumers and EU competition policy
    Policy brief by Alasdair Murray, 01 September 2005

    An effective competition policy is vital to the long-term health of the European economy. Competition increases the incentives for firms to reduce costs, cut prices and improve the quality of their products.
  • Liberal versus social Europe
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 01 August 2005

    Europe is in the grip of a fundamental debate about its economic future, or at least that is what some politicians and many journalists would have us believe.
  • Unshackling services is the key to Europe's economic future
    Bulletin article by Digby Jones , 03 June 2005

    In the last edition of the CER Bulletin, John Monks, secretary-general of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), wrote an interesting and engaging - but in my view incorrect - article on the Commission's draft directive for opening up EU services markets.
  • The UK should see enlargement as an opportunity to revive the Lisbon process
    Opinion piece by Alasdair Murray
    Progress online, 01 June 2005

    At the Lisbon summit in 2000, EU leaders signed up to an ambitious economic reform programme: the Lisbon agenda, designed to close the economic gap with the US.
  • Clumsy politics on services
    Bulletin article by John Monks , 01 April 2005

    It may be too early to read the last rites for the EU's proposed services directive. But even the strongest supporters of the directive, which seeks to liberalise services ranging from estate agents to employment firms, must now see that the prospects for its introduction are bleak.
  • 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.