EU banking unionUK & single marketEurozone limits
  • What a banking union means for Europe
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 05 December 2012
    What a banking union means for Europe
  • Britain must defend the single market
    Essay by Jo Johnson MP, 22 June 2012
    Britain must defend the single market
  • 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?
  • Europe's new economy
    Bulletin article by Charles Leadbeater, Kitty Ussher, 01 December 1999

    Europe needs a new economic story. Its ability to compete in the knowledge-driven economy depends on how well it can translate science, technology and know-how into jobs, growth and economic success.
  • Commissioning reform
    Bulletin article by Ben Hall, 01 October 1999

    For most ordinary members of the public the European Commission is the European Union. The fall of the Santer Commission amidst allegations of corruption and mismanagement plunged the EU into crisis.
  • Don't forget the shopkeepers
    Bulletin article by Bernard Hughes, 01 October 1999

    Commission President Romano Prodi has promised a fundamental review of the EU's priorities. He should encourage the Commission to think more about service industries.
  • A golden opportunity for reform
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 August 1999

    It is easy to forget that the Eurosceptical mood of many EU countries is a recent phenomenon. In the late 1980s, when the EU's prime task was the creation of a single market, its popularity grew in every member-state.
  • Entrepreneurial Europe
    Bulletin article by Kitty Ussher, 02 August 1999

    Europe's biggest economic problem is that it lacks the kind of entrepreneurial culture that powers America's economy. There are not enough start-up companies or large companies that are capable of innovation.
  • A single market in crime
    Bulletin article by Ben Hall, 02 August 1999

    Crime is becoming increasingly international, and it is a big business. A recent United Nations report estimates that the global turnover of criminal organisations amounts to some £1,000 billion a year, considerably larger than the gross domestic product of Britain.
  • A mandate for convergence
    Bulletin article by Kitty Ussher, 01 June 1999

    The government is missing a trick by failing to encourage the Bank of England to play an active part in ensuring Britain's economic convergence with the euro-zone.
  • Will EMU lead to a European economic government?
    Report by David Currie, Alan Donnelly, Heiner Flassbeck, Ben Hall, Jean Lemierre, Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, Nigel Wicks, 07 May 1999

    Both proponents and opponents of economic and monetary union (EMU) have always viewed it as an engine of further European integration and as another milestone on the road to an ill-defined 'political union'.