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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?
  • Is EU competition policy an obstacle to innovation and growth?
    Essay by Simon Tilford, 20 November 2008

    European countries need to improve their record of developing high-tech businesses if they are to prosper. This was explicitly recognised in the EU's Lisbon agenda of economic reforms launched in 2000. The reasons for Europe's poor record of innovation are complex, but one factor may be competition policy.

  • Lessons from the financial crisis: A twin-track response
    Briefing note by Philip Whyte, 05 November 2008

    The credit crunch has unleashed widespread anger outside the financial sector. And rightly so. Not only have taxpayers had to bail out an industry that is uncommonly well rewarded. But the effects of the credit crunch on the real economy are likely to be painful and prolonged – not least on the jobs market.

  • Brussels's Bad Medicine
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    The Wall Street Journal, 02 October 2008

    Europe's prosperity depends on its developing and sustaining high-tech businesses. Twenty years ago, Europe was the center of the pharmaceutical industry, which invested roughly 30% more in R&D here than in the U.S.
  • A new European mercantilism?
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 August 2008

    Europe’s economic liberals have had a successful ten years. There have been protectionist pressures throughout this period, of course.
  • Liberal reforms are no threat to social Europe
    Bulletin article by Philip Whyte, 01 April 2008

    Europeans have long sought to reconcile markets with social solidarity. The EU’s economic reform programme, the Lisbon agenda, falls squarely within this tradition. Launched in 2000, its vaulting ambition was to turn the EU into the “most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010”.

  • The Lisbon scorecard VIII: Is Europe ready for an economic storm?
    Report by Katinka Barysch, Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 01 February 2008

    After more than half a decade of economic gloom, the years 2006 and 2007 restored some much-needed optimism to Europe. Faster GDP growth and falling unemployment were at least partly due to the implementation of structural reform.
  • European retail banking: Will there ever be a single market?
    Policy brief by David Shirreff , 03 December 2007

    Integrated markets for entertainment and communications, as well as nearly all goods, stretch from the Arctic to Cyprus. By contrast, Europe’s retail banking industry remains largely segmented along national lines.

  • Can the EU learn to live with Chinese mercantilism?
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 29 October 2007

    Not long after its launch, the euro was famously dismissed by a disgruntled currency trader as a “toilet currency”. How things have changed.