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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
  • Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
    Policy brief by Simon Tilford, 05 November 2012
    Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
  • Germany's choice: Higher inflation or sovereign defaults
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 09 May 2012
    Germany's choice
  • A real threat of stagnation
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    The Voice of Russia, 08 August 2011

    In Europe, or in the US more particularly, we are seeing investors are losing confidence in the ability of various economies, various governments to service their debts.

  • Innovation: How Europe can take off
    Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 08 July 2011

    Every EU government supports innovation, believing that it will help Europe to meet the numerous economic, social and environmental challenges that it faces.

  • Germany's brief moment in the sun
    Essay by Simon Tilford, 27 June 2011

    Four years ago, Germany was widely seen as the sick man of Europe, beset by weak economic growth, a fast-ageing population and a pervasive sense of angst about the future.
  • Compétitivité ou productivité pour relancer la croissance européenne?
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    Les Echos, 20 June 2011

    Une mauvaise compréhension de ce que sont les moteurs de la croissance économique menace la reprise en Europe. Ses dirigeants sont obsédés par la compétitivité et paraissent croire sincèrement que prospérité rime avec excédent commercial.

  • Europe’s competitiveness trap
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    Project Syndicate, 16 June 2011

    A flawed understanding of what drives economic growth has emerged as the gravest threat to recovery in Europe. European policymakers are obsessed with national “competitiveness,” and genuinely appear to think that prosperity is synonymous with trade surpluses.

  • Is Germany really rebalancing?
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 February 2011

    Germany has rightly been criticised for its dependence on exports and its huge trade surpluses. In normal times, when economies are growing healthily, trade imbalances pose less of a problem.

  • Euro crisis: In defence of investors
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 17 January 2011

    The eurozone’s fiscal position is better than the US and UK, and the crisis-hit members of the currency union are doing more to strengthen their public finances than either of these countries.
  • Why Germany is not a model for Europe
    Opinion piece by Philip Whyte
    Der Tagesspiel, 10 November 2010

    Germany's economy has been winning numerous plaudits of late. It is not hard to see why. Previously much-vaunted economies "Ireland, Spain, the UK and the US, to name just four" lived way beyond their means for far too long.