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  • What a banking union means for Europe
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 05 December 2012
    What a banking union means for Europe
  • Alice in euroland: What political union for the single currency?
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 09 October 2012
    Alice in euroland: What political union for the single currency?
  • Has the eurozone reached the limits of the politically possible?
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 12 July 2012
    Has the eurozone reached the limits of the politically possible?
  • Britain and the euro: How to reap the benefits
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch, 06 June 2003

    The British government predicts that joining the euro would boost domestic investment, employment and growth – provided the economic conditions are right. It has promised to implement measures to ensure that Britain will benefit from the euro.
  • The euro and prices
    Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 03 January 2003

    By most measures, the euro’s first year been a success. Doomsayers had predicted that the currency changeover would cause mayhem on European highstreets, long queues in front of cash machines and a wave of crime and forgery. In the event, the participating countries adapted to the new currency quickly and smoothly.
  • Closing the delivery deficit: The future of economic governance in Europe
    Policy brief by Alasdair Murray, 03 May 2002

    The EU has set itself a series of highly ambitious economic goals to fulfil in the next decade. Eurozone countries are committed to ensuring the longterm health of the single currency, which will mean further economic integration. The Union will need to incorporate successfully at least ten dynamic but diverse accession country economies.
  • The Barcelona European Council
    Policy brief by Edward Bannerman, 01 March 2002

    The EU's ten-year plan to transform itself into "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010" is running out of steam. The forthcoming summit in Barcelona on March 15 and 16 needs to reenergise Europe's faltering commitment to the 'Lisbon agenda' of economic reform.
  • Getting from Lisbon to Warsaw
    Policy brief by Edward Bannerman, 18 February 2002

    The goal of joining the European Union is now tantalizingly close for many central and Eastern countries. The bigger question is what kind of EU are they joining? For much of the past decade, policy-makers and business leaders in the candidate countries have assumed accession is a sure-fire path to economic prosperity.
  • The euro comes of age
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray, 03 December 2001

    A dozen years after the Delors Committee produced a plan for Economic and Monetary Union, the euro finally becomes a reality for 300 million Europeans this January.
  • Economic policy co-ordination in the eurozone: What has been achieved? What should be done?
    Essay by Pierre Jacquet and Jean Pisani-Ferry, 05 January 2001

    Now that the euro has stabilised, Greece has joined EMU and the EU has committed itself to enlargement, the time is right to consider these critical issues of economic governance.
  • Reforming the euro club
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray, 01 August 2000

    And so farewell the euro-11. In future, the adhoc group of eurozone finance ministers will be known as the Euro Group, its powers beefed up along the lines dictated by the French government.