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 mandate for convergence
    Bulletin article by Kitty Ussher, 01 June 1999

    The government is missing a trick by failing to encourage the Bank of England to play an active part in ensuring Britain's economic convergence with the euro-zone.
  • Will EMU lead to a European economic government?
    Report by David Currie, Alan Donnelly, Heiner Flassbeck, Ben Hall, Jean Lemierre, Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, Nigel Wicks, 07 May 1999

    Both proponents and opponents of economic and monetary union (EMU) have always viewed it as an engine of further European integration and as another milestone on the road to an ill-defined 'political union'.
  • Name the day: The business case for joining the euro
    Essay by Colin Sharman, 02 April 1999

    Tony Blair's presentation to the House of Commons of a national changeover plan for the adoption of the euro, last February, will come to be seen as a defining moment in Britain's path towards economic and monetary union (EMU).
  • The danger of centralisation
    Bulletin article by Ben Hall, 01 April 1999

    During Oskar Lafontaine's brief reign as German finance minister, Europe seemed to veer towards much greater centralisation of economic policy-making. He argued that governments needed to forge a more centralised system of economic policy-making.
  • Europe's wake up call
    Bulletin article by Steven Everts, 01 April 1999

    "We've made it!" That was the predominant feeling among leading continental politicians and officials in the weeks after January 1st. The many merchants of doom had been proven wrong.
  • Europe's uncertain identity
    Essay by Gilles Andréani, 05 February 1999

    The launch of the euro is a success of historic proportions. It is also the ultimate vindication of the method first sketched out nearly fifty years ago in the Schuman memorandum.
  • Vision please
    Bulletin article by Ben Hall, 01 February 1999

    This year will be crucial both for the development of the European Union and for Britain's position within it. Outside EMU, Britain cannot be one of the leading players. It will have to run to keep up. That means that the government must actively engage in a public debate about Europe's future.
  • Will EMU lead to political union?
    Bulletin article by Ed Smith, 01 October 1998

    In the recent history of Europe, from Jean Monnet's plan for a European Coal and Steel Community in1950 to today's European Union, one pattern seems clear: where economic integration leads, political integration will eventually follow.