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  • Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
    Policy brief by Simon Tilford, 05 November 2012
    Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
  • Tackling the scourge of youth unemployment
    Insight by John Springford, 28 March 2012
    Tackling the scourge of youth unemployment
  • Innovation: How Europe can take off
    Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, Esko Aho, Jim Attridge, Amar Bhidé, Albert Bravo-Biosca, Nicholas Crafts, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Malcolm Harbour, John Kay, Helga Nowotny, Andreas Schleicher, Michael Schrage and David Willetts., 08 July 2011
  • Europe needs service-market liberalisation
    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.

  • Tackling the scourge of youth unemployment
    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.

  • 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.

  • Business leaders risk discrediting markets
    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.
  • The Lisbon scorecard X: The road to 2020
    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.

  • Why education should be at the heart of EU2020
    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.
  • Are the British the new French?
    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.
  • The wages of recovery
    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.