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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 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.
  • Old Europe? Demographic change and pension reform
    Report by David Willetts, 05 September 2003

    US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was onto something when he classified the current EU countries as 'old Europe'. Germany, France and Italy together will have more than 70 million people over 60 in 2040. The fact that Europeans are leading longer, healthier lives is to be welcomed.
  • Does enlargement matter for the EU economy?
    Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 07 March 2003

    The economies of the new member-states are too small to have much impact on the current EU. The EU as a whole has gained from enlargement and will continue to do so. But labour intensive industries and border regions will have to cope with increased competition.
  • The Lisbon scorecard III: The status of economic reform in the enlarging EU
    Working paper by Alasdair Murray, 07 March 2003

    Three years into the EU's Lisbon economic reform agenda, the EU remains far from meeting its goal of becoming the 'most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010'.
  • Learning from Europe: Lessons in education
    Working paper by Nick Clegg and Dr Richard Grayson, 03 May 2002

    'Learning from Europe' is a significant contribution to the debate on how our public services can be improved, drawing on lessons from other European countries.