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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
  • 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
  • Britain, the City and the EU: A triangle of suspicion
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 11 October 2011
  • 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.

  • A pact for stability and growth
    Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 03 October 2003

    The stability and growth pact – the EU’s fiscal rule book – is in tatters. The eurozone’s largest countries, Germany and France, are in breach of the pact, having exceeded the 3 per cent of GDP limit for budget deficits in 2002 and 2003. Theyare likely to do so again in 2004, possibly alongside Portugal and Italy.
  • Der Lissabon-Anzeiger: EU Wirtschaftsreformen vor der Osterweiterung
    Working paper by Alasdair Murray, 05 September 2003

    Als sich im März 2000 die EU-Staatschefs zum Gipfel in Lissabon versammelten, schien Europas Wirtschaft am Anfang eines neuen goldenen Zeitalters zu stehen. Die Wachstumsraten waren die höchsten seit nahezu einem Jahrzehnt.
  • A half-finished job: The EU’s financial services action plan
    Policy brief by Alasdair Murray, 01 November 2002

    At the Lisbon summit in March 2000, EU heads of government signed up to an ambitious programme designed to achieve a viable single market in financial services by 2005.
  • How to reform the European Central Bank
    Report by Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Jérôme Creel, 11 October 2002

    Europe's macro-economic policy framework is in trouble. Eurozone inflation continues to overshoot the ECB's 'reference value' of 2 per cent. Yet businesses and policy-makers are pleading with the ECB for lower interest rates.
  • New rules for capital markets
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray, 01 August 2002

    • The fallout from the Enron and WorldCom corporate scandals in the United States will resonate through global securities markets for years to come.
  • The Barcelona scorecard: The status of economic reform in the enlarging EU
    Working paper by Edward Bannerman, 03 May 2002

    Only a new 'High Representative for Economic Policy' can ensure the EU meets its 2010 target of becoming "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world".
  • The Barcelona European Council
    Policy brief by Edward Bannerman, 01 March 2002

    The EU's ten-year plan to transform itself into "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010" is running out of steam. The forthcoming summit in Barcelona on March 15 and 16 needs to reenergise Europe's faltering commitment to the 'Lisbon agenda' of economic reform.