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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
  • East versus West? The European economic and social model after enlargement
    Essay by Katinka Barysch, 06 January 2006

    The EU's enlargement to the East has been an economic success. Trade between the old and the new members is thriving. Foreign investment by West European companies has helped to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in Central and Eastern Europe, and it has generated multi-billion euro profits for the investing companies.
  • Unshackling services is the key to Europe's economic future
    Bulletin article by Digby Jones , 03 June 2005

    In the last edition of the CER Bulletin, John Monks, secretary-general of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), wrote an interesting and engaging - but in my view incorrect - article on the Commission's draft directive for opening up EU services markets.
  • The UK should see enlargement as an opportunity to revive the Lisbon process
    Opinion piece by Alasdair Murray
    Progress online, 01 June 2005

    At the Lisbon summit in 2000, EU leaders signed up to an ambitious economic reform programme: the Lisbon agenda, designed to close the economic gap with the US.
  • Clumsy politics on services
    Bulletin article by John Monks , 01 April 2005

    It may be too early to read the last rites for the EU's proposed services directive. But even the strongest supporters of the directive, which seeks to liberalise services ranging from estate agents to employment firms, must now see that the prospects for its introduction are bleak.
  • The Lisbon scorecard V: Can Europe compete?
    Report by Alasdair Murray, Aurore Wanlin, 01 March 2005

    The EU is half-way through its ten year programme of economic reform, the 'Lisbon agenda'. The EU is unlikely to achieve its goal of becoming the world's most competitive and dynamic economy by 2010.
  • Raising the quality of Europe's higher education
    Bulletin article by Richard Lambert, 01 April 2004

    European universities are in urgent need of reform. They have a crucial role to play in helping the EU to achieve its goal of becoming the 'most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world'.
  • The Lisbon scorecard IV: The status of economic reform in the enlarging EU
    Working paper by Aladair Murray, 05 March 2004

    With cynicism, even derision – this is how many Europeans look at the EU's key economic target, namely to become the "most competitive and dynamic, knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010.
  • Is Europe working?
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 01 January 2004

    With more than 14 million people out of work, unemployment is the EU's greatest economic problem. However, while EU policy-makers ponder Germany's 4.3 million unemployed, Britain's low labour productivity and Italy's greying workforce, they have missed one of Europe's key labour market challenges: eastward enlargement.