Single market Single market Britain's EU ties
  • The CER commission on the UK and the single market
    Insight by John Springford, 07 June 2013
    The CER commission on the UK and the single market
  • Launch of the CER's commission on the UK and the single market
    Event, 05 June 2013, London
    Launch of the CER's commission on the UK and the single market
  • Do Britain's European ties damage its prosperity?
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 22 March 2013
    Do Britain's European ties damage its prosperity?
  • A pact for stability and growth
    Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 03 October 2003

    The stability and growth pact – the EU’s fiscal rule book – is in tatters. The eurozone’s largest countries, Germany and France, are in breach of the pact, having exceeded the 3 per cent of GDP limit for budget deficits in 2002 and 2003. Theyare likely to do so again in 2004, possibly alongside Portugal and Italy.
  • If it's broken, fix it!
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 01 October 2003

    Europeans are right to worry about their economy. Forecasters think that the eurozone economy will grow by a paltry 0.5 per cent this year. But the real problem is that Europe's sluggish performance is part of a long-term trend.
  • Der Lissabon-Anzeiger: EU Wirtschaftsreformen vor der Osterweiterung
    Working paper by Alasdair Murray, 05 September 2003

    Als sich im März 2000 die EU-Staatschefs zum Gipfel in Lissabon versammelten, schien Europas Wirtschaft am Anfang eines neuen goldenen Zeitalters zu stehen. Die Wachstumsraten waren die höchsten seit nahezu einem Jahrzehnt.
  • 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'.
  • 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.
  • A credible competition process
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray , 02 December 2002

    The European Commission's handling of competition policy is facing a crisis of credibility. In the last six months, the Commission which had never previously lost a merger case has suffered three reversals in the European Court of Justice.
  • A half-finished job: The EU’s financial services action plan
    Policy brief by Alasdair Murray, 01 November 2002

    At the Lisbon summit in March 2000, EU heads of government signed up to an ambitious programme designed to achieve a viable single market in financial services by 2005.
  • European economic reform: Tackling the delivery deficit
    Report by Alasdair Murray, 04 October 2002

    The EU has set itself a series of ambitious economic reform goals but has so far failed to deliver on its promises. Alasdair Murray argues in this report that the Convention on the future of Europe and the forthcoming inter governmental conference provide an opportunity for the EU to think afresh about how it can overcome the institutional obstacles to economic reform.