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Britain's EU ties EU banking union Economic recovery

Do Britain's European ties damage its prosperity?
Essay by Philip Whyte, 22 March 2013
What a banking union means for Europe
Essay by Philip Whyte, 05 December 2012
Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
Policy brief by Simon Tilford, 05 November 2012

Eurozone crisis: What steps should be taken to move forward?

Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
The Voice of Russia, 20 June 2012

Interview with Simon Tilford – chief economist at the Centre for European Reform coming to us all the way from London.
O efeito dominó que ameaça a Espanha e a zona do euro

Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
Carta Maior, 19 June 2012

Em entrevista à Carta Maior, Simon Tilford, economista chefe do Centre for European Reform, defende a necessidade de uma massiva injeção fiscal na eurozona, sem a qual a Espanha terá que pedir um resgate este ano.
Germans, the euro and the painful truth

Opinion piece by Charles Grant
International Herald Tribune, 12 June 2012

Will the Germans save the euro? Many people within the European Union and further afield are urging Berlin to take bold steps to secure the currency’s future. They have become frustrated by the Germans' apparent inaction.
Some sorts of austerity are better than others

Insight by John Springford, 01 June 2012

Governments in the eurozone's periphery are making indiscriminate cuts. Reducing spending that does little to support demand and recycling it into investment would help.
Germany's choice: Higher inflation or sovereign defaults

Insight by Simon Tilford, 09 May 2012

Germany faces a choice between higher inflation or a wave of sovereign defaults culminating in either a transfer union or the collapse of the eurozone.
Governance reforms have left the euro's flawed structure intact

Insight by Philip Whyte, 18 April 2012

European leaders have presided over a major overhaul of the way the eurozone is run. But the eurozone's basic institutional configuration remains as unstable as ever.
Stable public finances require stronger business investment

Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 26 March 2012

Economic recovery in Europe is being held back by the unprecedented weakness of business investment. Despite a secular decline in business taxation and labour market reforms that have boosted the power of capital relative to labour, the ratio of investment-to-GDP across the EU is at a 60 year low.
Eurozone policy-makers place a big bet

Insight by Simon Tilford, 13 March 2012

The ECB's decision to lend almost unlimited amounts of money to Europe's banks has bought the eurozone some time. But there is risk that time will be wasted.

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