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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
  • The Lisbon scorecard IX: How to emerge from the wreckage
    Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 13 February 2009

    EU governments are taking increasingly unorthodox measures to prevent the economic crisis from overwhelming their economies. They are right to intervene, but their policies must not undermine Europe's long-term economic growth prospects in the process.

  • Farewell, Polish plumber
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 07 August 2008

    When the EU expanded its membership in 2004, the UK was one of only three EU countries – Ireland and Sweden were the others – fully to open its borders to migrants from the ten new member states.
  • Why free markets have little to do with inequality
    Opinion piece by Philip Whyte
    Financial Times, 02 June 2008

    Many Europeans believe liberal economic reforms are incompatible with social justice. The US and the UK, they point out, have more liberal markets for products and labour than in continental Europe - but also higher levels of poverty and income inequality.
  • Liberal reforms are no threat to social Europe
    Bulletin article by Philip Whyte, 01 April 2008

    Europeans have long sought to reconcile markets with social solidarity. The EU’s economic reform programme, the Lisbon agenda, falls squarely within this tradition. Launched in 2000, its vaulting ambition was to turn the EU into the “most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010”.

  • The Lisbon scorecard VIII: Is Europe ready for an economic storm?
    Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 01 February 2008

    After more than half a decade of economic gloom, the years 2006 and 2007 restored some much-needed optimism to Europe. Faster GDP growth and falling unemployment were at least partly due to the implementation of structural reform.
  • Growing old gracefully: How to ease population ageing in Europe
    Essay by Alasdair Murray, 17 January 2008

    Europe stands on the cusp of a demographic revolution. Rising life expectancy and low fertility are radically transforming Europe’s demographic profile. Ageing populations pose profound political, economic and social challenges for Europe.

  • We are all Nordic now, or are we?
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 02 April 2007

    The EU drew up its Lisbon reform agenda in 2000 with the thinly disguised goal of catching up with the US. But the idea that Europe should strive to adopt ‘Anglo-Saxon’ capitalism is abhorrent to those who cherish Europe’s more extensive welfare states.
  • Get with it, Europe
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    The International Herald Tribune, 09 March 2007

    It is seven years since the European Union launched its Lisbon agenda of economic reforms aimed at transforming the competitiveness of the European economy by 2010. Despite the pessimism, there has been much to cheer.