• Opinion piece by John Springford
    The Wall Street Journal, 20 September 2012

    In exchange for sharing southern Europe's debt burden, Germany is demanding liberal economic reforms in those countries. Yet Germany is not following its own advice.

  • Insight by John Springford, 28 March 2012

    European youth unemployment is unacceptably high. Governments are trying to push young people into work, despite weak demand: they would do better to educate them.

  • 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.

  • Insight by Simon Tilford, 13 May 2010

    Despite their battered reputation, markets remain the best way of generating economic growth. But the market economy faces a crisis of legitimacy brought about by rising inequality and a breakdown of the relationship between risk and reward.

  • Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 15 March 2010

    The EU's Lisbon agenda has failed to deliver what it promised. Although most member-states have made some progress towards the targets they set themselves in 2000, their commitment to reform has been half-hearted.

  • Bulletin article by Philip Whyte, 01 February 2010

    At their summit in March, EU heads of state and government must decide what should succeed the Lisbon agenda – the ambitious programme of supply-side reforms that was launched in 2000.

  • Insight by Simon Tilford, 05 May 2009

    The British tend to deride France as a hopelessly statist, anti-entrepreneurial country full of bolshie workers intent on extracting disproportionate rewards for their labour and a state too weak to resist them. This characterisation is not wholly inaccurate.

  • Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    The Wall Street Journal, 15 April 2009

    Everywhere in Europe the talk is of the need to cut costs. Companies have no choice but to respond to declining profits by reducing expenses.