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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
  • 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?
  • The danger of centralisation
    Bulletin article by Ben Hall, 01 April 1999

    During Oskar Lafontaine's brief reign as German finance minister, Europe seemed to veer towards much greater centralisation of economic policy-making. He argued that governments needed to forge a more centralised system of economic policy-making.
  • EMU must go further
    Bulletin article by Kitty Ussher, 01 December 1998

    The EMU project is set for success in the short term, despite the financial crisis, but in the long run its prosperity depends on greater co-ordination between member states to undertake essential structural reform.
  • Transparency is no panacea?
    Bulletin article by Maurice Fraser, 01 October 1998

    We all want openness and accountability, but let's be clear that they don't guarantee the most effective method of Government.
  • Will EMU lead to political union?
    Bulletin article by Ed Smith, 01 October 1998

    In the recent history of Europe, from Jean Monnet's plan for a European Coal and Steel Community in1950 to today's European Union, one pattern seems clear: where economic integration leads, political integration will eventually follow.
  • The unshocking truth about EMU
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 July 1998

    It is the commonest of all the economic arguments against EMU, but also the most specious: that any country in the euro-zone which suffered an economic crisis that did not affect its neighbours (an "asymmetric shock"), deprived of the freedom to devalue, would be condemned to a massive rise in unemployment.
  • Britain and EMU: The case for joining
    Report by Graham Bishop, Chris Boyd, Alison Cottrell, Diane Coyle, Alan Donnelly, Niall FitzGerald, Pascal Lamy, Alman Metten, John Monks, Sir David Simon, Peter Sutherland, Martin Wolf, 07 February 1997

    As the deadline for the start of Economic and Monetary Union approaches, the British debate on the single currency is shifting. Theoretical discussions on the pros and cons of monetary union are becoming less relevant.
  • Can industrial Europe be saved?
    Report by Olivier Cadot, Pierre Blime, 13 September 1996

    Pessimists claim that the European economy is sinking under the weight of an over-regulated labour market and a costly welfare state.