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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
  • The future of European stock markets
    Report by Alasdair Murray, 04 May 2001

    Alasdair Murray look at how the absence of a single market in equities within the EU increases the cost of capital and restricts Europe's ability to close the economic gap with the United States.
  • The stockholm scorecard
    Bulletin article by Edward Bannerman, 02 April 2001

    The Stockholm European Council was supposed to focus on Europe's "new" economy and the goal of creating "the world's most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010".
  • The spectre of tax harmonisation
    Report by Kitty Ussher, 04 February 2000

    Europe's citizens, generally speaking, do not want their taxes set by Brussels. Taxation and representation still go hand in hand. So it is safe to assume that so long as people continue to look to their national governments to represent their interests (and turn out to vote for their national politicians in greater numbers than for MEPs), they will reject the notion of taxation policies being decided at European Union level.
  • 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.
  • The myth of tax harmonisation
    Bulletin article by Kitty Ussher, 01 February 1999

    There are no plans to harmonise European Union rates of VAT, income tax or company tax. Yet the inhabitants of Britain could be forgiven for thinking precisely the opposite.