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  • Why Germany is not a model for the eurozone
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 22 October 2010
    Why Germany is not a model for the eurozone
  • Whatever happened to the G20?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 14 April 2010
    Whatever happened to the G20?
  • Narrowing the Atlantic: The way forward for EU-US trade and investment
    Report by Philip Whyte, 29 April 2009
    Narrowing the Atlantic
  • Narrowing the Atlantic: The way forward for EU-US trade and investment
    Report by Philip Whyte, 29 April 2009

    The financial crisis has provoked a dramatic contraction in world trade. With economic activity declining and job losses rising, protectionist pressures are mounting.

  • Options for EU trade policy
    Bulletin article by Philip Whyte, 01 October 2008

    In late July, the Doha round suffered its umpteenth setback, when ministers from the member-states of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) failed to agree on a package to liberalise world trade.
  • 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.
  • Should we care that world trade talks have collapsed?
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Daily Telegraph, 31 July 2008

    After nine days of fierce haggling, trade ministers from the 153 countries that are in the World Trade Organisation gave up this week. It is not clear whether the Doha round of multilateral trade talks - seven years in the making - is now dead. Should we care?
  • Should Europeans care about Doha?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 30 July 2008

    Are the Doha trade talks finally dead? Following the failure of the latest ministerial meeting in Geneva on July 29th, there will be little appetite for another big push to resolve disputes over farm subsidies and manufacturing tariffs.
  • Europe must build a strategic alliance with China
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 09 June 2008

    The shift of power from west to east, as the US-dominated international order becomes multipolar, is evident. But the nature of the emerging system is far from clear. Will it be competitive, based on the assertion of national power, or co-operative, framed by international rules?
  • China is losing its EU friends
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 November 2007

    The EU is getting tough on China. That, at least, is the impression one gets from high-ranking EU officials that arrived for the annual EU-China summit in Beijing this week. Economics is the main reason for Europe’s changing mood.
  • 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.