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?
  • What future for free trade in services?
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 03 April 2006

    The controversy that has engulfed the Commission’s draft services directive is hardly surprising: the establishment of a single EU market in services was always going to generate more opposition than the liberalisation of trade in goods.
  • Ditchley conference note - The future of the European economy
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch, 21 March 2006

    In November 2005, the CER took more than 40 of Europe's top economists, policy-makers and commentators to the Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire to discuss 'The future of the European economy'.
  • The Lisbon scorecard VI: Will Europe's economy rise again?
    Report by Aurore Wanlin, 01 March 2006

    The European Union and its 'Lisbon agenda' of economic reform, have received a battering over the past year. The pace of reform has remained slow in the big eurozone countries.
  • Consumers and EU competition policy
    Policy brief by Alasdair Murray, 01 September 2005

    An effective competition policy is vital to the long-term health of the European economy. Competition increases the incentives for firms to reduce costs, cut prices and improve the quality of their products.
  • Liberal versus social Europe
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 01 August 2005

    Europe is in the grip of a fundamental debate about its economic future, or at least that is what some politicians and many journalists would have us believe.
  • Unshackling services is the key to Europe's economic future
    Bulletin article by Digby Jones , 03 June 2005

    In the last edition of the CER Bulletin, John Monks, secretary-general of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), wrote an interesting and engaging - but in my view incorrect - article on the Commission's draft directive for opening up EU services markets.
  • The UK should see enlargement as an opportunity to revive the Lisbon process
    Opinion piece by Alasdair Murray
    Progress online, 01 June 2005

    At the Lisbon summit in 2000, EU leaders signed up to an ambitious economic reform programme: the Lisbon agenda, designed to close the economic gap with the US.
  • Clumsy politics on services
    Bulletin article by John Monks , 01 April 2005

    It may be too early to read the last rites for the EU's proposed services directive. But even the strongest supporters of the directive, which seeks to liberalise services ranging from estate agents to employment firms, must now see that the prospects for its introduction are bleak.