EU digital agenda

John Springford
26 July 2015

The EU should not fret about the power of US internet giants. The take-up of digital technology across the services sector is more important than a 'European Google'.
Splendid isolation

John Springford, Richard Lambert
25 June 2014

Membership of the European Union has shackled Britain’s economy to a corpse. The United Kingdom has been bound by swaths of costly red tape to a bunch of moribund economies with no growth prospects. As a result, UK exporters have been held back from the fast-growing markets of the Commonwealth and the developing world.
UK & single market

The final report of the CER commission on the UK and the EU single market
09 June 2014

A group of experts finds that, after leaving the EU, the UK would face an invidious choice: sign up to the single market’s rules, or suffer economic damage.In April 2016 an updated version of the report The economic consequences of leaving the EU: The final report of the CER commission on Brexit 2016 was published.
City and Brexit

John Springford, Philip Whyte
08 May 2014

If Britain leaves the EU, the City of London will lose access to European markets – unless the UK aligns its financial rules with those of the EU.
Single market

John Springford
07 June 2013

The CER's commission was launched this week. Policy experts, economists and business people will examine the economic case for and against EU membership.

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The single market & competition policy

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What would a Brexit mean for EU competition policy?

Alec Burnside

30 September 2013

A British exit from the EU could have important repercussions for competition policy. Britain and the remaining EU countries would both be affected.

Issue 92 - 2013

Hugo Brady, Philip Whyte, Rem Korteweg

27 September 2013

Banking union – or Potemkin village?, Philip Whyte
Europe cannot make up its mind about the US pivot, Rem Korteweg
Whatever happened to the Schengen crisis?, Hugo Brady

Banking union – or Potemkin village?

Philip Whyte

27 September 2013

Since mid-2012, the eurozone crisis has been in remission. The period of relative calm which has prevailed since then has not been the product of an upturn in economic fortunes: until the recent summer uptick, the eurozone had suffered six consecutive quarters of declining activity and rising unemployment (a result in part of synchronised fiscal austerity across the region as a whole).

The future of Europe's economy: Disaster or deliverance?

Paul De Grauwe, George Magnus, Thomas Mayer, Holger Schmieding

18 September 2013

Four leading economists give widely divergent diagnoses of the eurozone's problems and very different policy prescriptions. The EU's future could depend upon which is right.

Issue 91 - 2013

Ian Bond, Rem Korteweg, Simon Tilford

24 July 2013

The spectre of default stalks the eurozone, Simon Tilford
Edward Snowden's '1984', Ian Bond
Will the Dutch help Cameron to reform the EU?, Rem Korteweg

Can national parliaments make the EU legitimate?

Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?

Charles Grant

10 June 2013

The euro crisis has hit the EU's legitimacy. Part of the answer is to give national parliamentarians a bigger role in the EU.

The CER commission on the UK and the single market

John Springford

07 June 2013

The CER's commission was launched this week. Policy experts, economists and business people will examine the economic case for and against EU membership.

Issue 90 - 2013

Hugo Brady, Ian Bond, Philip Whyte

24 May 2013

A Balkan map for the road to Damascus?, Ian Bond
Why has the eurozone's recovery been weaker than the US's?, Philip Whyte
Could Britain's coalition collapse over EU police co-operation?, Hugo Brady

Why the has eurozone's recovery been weaker than the US's?

Why has the eurozone's recovery been weaker than the US's?

Philip Whyte

24 May 2013

The eurozone has experienced a much weaker economic recovery than the US since 2009. The reason is that it has made more glaring policy mistakes.

A dose of inflation would help the eurozone medicine go down

Simon Tilford

16 May 2013

Eurozone policy-makers are complacent about the risks of low inflation. If the euro is to survive, inflation will need to rise significantly, especially in Germany.

It's the politics, stupid!

Simon Tilford

25 March 2013

Many economists have been accused of being too gloomy about the euro because they underestimate the degree of political commitment that eurozone countries have made to the euro.

Do Britain's European ties damage its prosperity?

Philip Whyte

22 March 2013

Leaving the EU would not resolve Britain's economic difficulties, which are mostly home-grown. However, it could turn Britain into a more closed economy.

The UK and the single market

John Springford

15 March 2013

There is no threshold beyond which the removal of trade barriers becomes ineffective, at least in economic terms. Barriers to trade are numerous, and eliminating them is a potentially limitless process.