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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
  • The Doha trade round: What hope for Hong Kong?
    Briefing note by Aurore Wanlin, 01 December 2005

    The Doha round of trade talks, launched in the Qatar capital in 2001, is in trouble. The members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have little time left to meet their ambition of helping developing countries trade their way out of poverty.
  • Easing the pain of trade liberalisation
    Bulletin article by Richard Cunningham , 01 December 2005

    This year’s textiles crisis shows what can happen if the EU and the US are ill-prepared for competition from emerging Asia. The integration of China and India into the world economy means that manufacturing and low-cost services in the West will have to adapt rapidly.
  • Manufacturing first: A new way forward for global trade
    Working paper by Bruce Stokes, 07 May 2004

    Global trade negotiations inside the WTO remain stalled. Recently, negotiators have talked up the prospects for progress in the 'Doha development round' – but no one is expecting an imminent breakthrough.
  • Arrival delayed
    Opinion piece by Alasdair Murray
    The Parliament Magazine, 22 March 2004

    The fact that the EU is not going to meet all its targets should not lead commentators to condemn the whole Lisbon programme, writes Alasdair Murray. At the Lisbon summit in the spring of 2000, EU leaders signed up to an ambitious economic reform programme that is designed to close the economic gap with the United States.

  • The Barcelona European Council
    Policy brief by Edward Bannerman, 01 March 2002

    The EU's ten-year plan to transform itself into "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010" is running out of steam. The forthcoming summit in Barcelona on March 15 and 16 needs to reenergise Europe's faltering commitment to the 'Lisbon agenda' of economic reform.
  • The EU and world trade
    Report by Richard Cunningham, Peter Lichtenbaum, Julie Wolf, 08 September 2000

    The paradox of trade policy is that, at a time when political leaders in most parts of the world have accepted the intellectual case for trade liberalisation more thoroughly than ever before, public opposition to free trade is on the rise.
  • The EU and world trade
    Bulletin article by Julie Wolf, 01 August 2000

    The collapse of the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation in December 1999 was a blow to the EU, which had first proposed the idea of a "millennium round" of trade liberalisation.
  • 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.