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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Issue 41 - 2005

Charles Grant, Katinka Barysch, Mark Leonard, John Monks

25 March 2005

What new transatlantic institutions?, Charles Grant, Mark Leonard
Clumsy politics on services, John Monks
One year after enlargement, Katinka Barysch

The Lisbon scorecard V: Can Europe compete?

Alasdair Murray, Aurore Wanlin

01 March 2005

The EU is half-way through its ten year programme of economic reform, the 'Lisbon agenda'. The EU is unlikely to achieve its goal of becoming the world's most competitive and dynamic economy by 2010.

A fair referee? The European Commission and EU competition policy

Alasdair Murray

01 October 2004

The EU's policies for enforcing competition and restricting state subsidies are among its biggest success stories. But the way the European Commission conducts these policies is coming under attack.

The Lisbon scorecard IV: The status of economic reform in the enlarging EU

Aladair Murray

05 March 2004

With cynicism, even derision – this is how many Europeans look at the EU's key economic target, namely to become the "most competitive and dynamic, knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010.

Policing public sector aid

Alasdair Murray

02 February 2004

Europe's powerful public sector trade unions are campaigning to protect public services from the disciplines of EU competition and state aid laws.

Issue 34 - 2004

Steven Everts, Heather Grabbe, Alasdair Murray

30 January 2004

Jobs for the boys, Steven Everts
Poland: the EU's new awkward partner, Heather Grabbe
Policing public sector aid, Alasdair Murray

A pact for stability and growth

Katinka Barysch

03 October 2003

The stability and growth pact – the EU’s fiscal rule book – is in tatters. The eurozone’s largest countries, Germany and France, are in breach of the pact, having exceeded the 3 per cent of GDP limit for budget deficits in 2002 and 2003. Theyare likely to do so again...

If it's broken, fix it!

Katinka Barysch

01 October 2003

Europeans are right to worry about their economy. Forecasters think that the eurozone economy will grow by a paltry 0.5 per cent this year. But the real problem is that Europe's sluggish performance is part of a long-term trend.

Issue 32 - 2003

Katinka Barysch, Nick Butler, Steven Everts

26 September 2003

If it's broken, fix it! , Katinka Barysch
A clean break for Europe , Nick Butler
The EU must be tougher and more creative on Iran, Steven Everts

Der Lissabon-Anzeiger: EU Wirtschaftsreformen vor der Osterweiterung

Alasdair Murray

05 September 2003

Als sich im März 2000 die EU-Staatschefs zum Gipfel in Lissabon versammelten, schien Europas Wirtschaft am Anfang eines neuen goldenen Zeitalters zu stehen. Die Wachstumsraten waren die höchsten seit nahezu einem Jahrzehnt.

The Lisbon scorecard III: The status of economic reform in the enlarging EU

Alasdair Murray

07 March 2003

Three years into the EU's Lisbon economic reform agenda, the EU remains far from meeting its goal of becoming the 'most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010'.

Does enlargement matter for the EU economy?

Katinka Barysch

07 March 2003

The economies of the new member-states are too small to have much impact on the current EU. The EU as a whole has gained from enlargement and will continue to do so. But labour intensive industries and border regions will have to cope with increased competition. Germany, Austria and other...

A credible competition process

Alasdair Murray

02 December 2002

The European Commission's handling of competition policy is facing a crisis of credibility. In the last six months, the Commission which had never previously lost a merger case has suffered three reversals in the European Court of Justice.

Issue 27 - 2002

Friedrich Heinemann, Alasdair Murray, Peter Sutherland

29 November 2002

The EU's budget: Time to go back to basics , Friedrich Heinemann
A credible competition process , Alasdair Murray
Why Europe does not need a new president , Peter Sutherland

A half-finished job: The EU’s financial services action plan

Alasdair Murray

01 November 2002

At the Lisbon summit in March 2000, EU heads of government signed up to an ambitious programme designed to achieve a viable single market in financial services by 2005. The financial services action plan (FSAP) is an attempt to reduce the legal obstacles which still prevent businesses – whether retail...

European economic reform: Tackling the delivery deficit

Alasdair Murray

04 October 2002

The EU has set itself a series of ambitious economic reform goals but has so far failed to deliver on its promises. Alasdair Murray argues in this report that the Convention on the future of Europe and the forthcoming inter governmental conference provide an opportunity for the EU to think afresh about how it can overcome the institutional obstacles to economic reform.