Britain's EU tiesEU banking unionEconomic recovery
  • Do Britain's European ties damage its prosperity?
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 22 March 2013
    Do Britain's European ties damage its prosperity?
  • 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
  • The "open method of co-ordination": Innovation or talking shop?
    Bulletin article by Kirsty Hughes , 01 December 2000

    At the 'dot.com' Summit AT Lisbon in March 2000, the EU set itself the strategic goal of creating full employment in a competitive and inclusive knowledge-based economy.
  • Reforming the euro club
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray, 01 August 2000

    And so farewell the euro-11. In future, the adhoc group of eurozone finance ministers will be known as the Euro Group, its powers beefed up along the lines dictated by the French government.
  • A new economic model
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray, 03 April 2000

    Slowly, and somewhat reluctantly, the EU is beginning to embrace economic reform. For years America's equity-orientated, shareholder-value-driven economic model appeared anathema to much of the continent.
  • Europe's new economy
    Bulletin article by Charles Leadbeater, Kitty Ussher, 01 December 1999

    Europe needs a new economic story. Its ability to compete in the knowledge-driven economy depends on how well it can translate science, technology and know-how into jobs, growth and economic success.
  • The case for "Mr Euroland"
    Bulletin article by Steven Everts, 01 October 1999

    Most discussions about the euro focus on what it means for the politics and the economy of the EU. The actual and potential external impact of EMU is often ignored.
  • Needed: An EU energy tax
    Bulletin article by Nina Marenzi, 02 August 1999

    There is no EU-wide energy tax, despite the fact that green parties now have a strong presence in the European political landscape and that such a tax could make the single market more effective.
  • 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.
  • 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).