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Research Date 28 Jun 2017 Britain’s higher tax future? Tax rises are now back in the centre ground of the UK economic discourse, in a way they have not been for at least a decade. This shift should put... Read more
Research Date 27 Jun 2017 Could Italy see the return of Berlusconi? Sunday’s Italian municipal election results demonstrated one of the golden rules of Italian politics – never underestimate Il Cavaliere. Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s party Forza Italia and its ally... Read more
Research Date 27 Jun 2017 Could the UK join NAFTA? The question of UK membership of NAFTA seems to be doing the rounds again. This is not entirely surprising. Both Australian and Canadian trade officials – including Ottawa’s former chief... Read more
Research Date 22 Jun 2017 The Digital Single Market has a new commissioner – will Mariya Gabriel censor social media? After an eight-month hiatus, the EU looks finally set to have a new Commissioner in charge of its flagship, the Digital Single Market (DSM) agenda. Mariya Gabriel is a former... Read more
Research Date 21 Jun 2017 How Banco Popular put a spotlight on the EU’s Single Supervisory Mechanism I listened this week to SSM head Danièle Nouy defending the sale of Spain’s Banco Popular to Banco Santander in front of the ECON committee of the European Parliament. It... Read more
Research Date 19 Jun 2017 Einstein’s advice for Brexit negotiators: relative urgency depends on regulators as much as on politics Much has been written at the launch of Brexit negotiations today about the time remaining for negotiators. Michel Barnier has set a deadline of October 2018 for agreeing a withdrawal... Read more
Research Date 16 Jun 2017 Deepening the Digital Single Market: not much to tweet about Yesterday marked the entry into force of the EU’s ban on data roaming charges. Former England footballer and sports broadcaster Gary Lineker tweeted “Well played EU”, which was just the... Read more
Report Date 16 Jun 2017 Customs union: soft Brexit or hard sell? When Theresa May’s UK’s government was stripped of its majority in last week’s general election, the result was widely interpreted as a demand that the UK government focus on minimising... Read more
Research Date 15 Jun 2017 Does the migration stick for Visegrad countries require a carrot as well? Migration has drawn the most serious division line between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ EU member states in a decade. This week’s European Commission infringement decision against Poland, Hungary and Czech... Read more
Report Date 14 Jun 2017 The EU banking union 5 years on 5 years have passed since the establishment of the banking union concept as the EU’s three-pillar response to breaking the sovereign-bank “doom loop” behind the EU sovereign debt crisis. Those... Read more
Research Date 13 Jun 2017 How Trump shakes up the Middle East It’s only been three weeks since Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, but the repercussions could be felt the moment he left. Only a few hours after his departure to Israel... Read more
Research Date 13 Jun 2017 Was 2017 really a Brexit election? At the start of the election campaign, 2017 was meant to be the election that delivered Theresa May a strong mandate for Brexit as both Leave voters and pragmatic Remainers... Read more
Research Date 2 Jun 2017 Au revoir Donald: is US withdrawal from Paris an opportunity for European climate leadership? On Thursday, self-proclaimed deal maker Donald Trump turned ‘deal breaker’, as he announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The decision provoked condemnation from an extraordinary spectrum of... Read more
Research Date 1 Jun 2017 Could TTIP really be relaunched? On Tuesday, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross gave the clearest sign yet that the US administration might have an interest in reviving the TTIP negotiations. Ross told media that it... Read more
Report Date 31 May 2017 European policy and the future of the EU Ten years of serial crises and rising voter scepticism about mainstream political parties have definitively buried the managerialist consensus that dominated EU policymaking in the early 2000s. The financial crisis... Read more
Research Date 26 May 2017 A German-German motor for the EU27? Attention in the European Council has turned from unity over Brexit to whether France and Germany can find a unifying policy direction for the EU27. The view in Paris is... Read more
Research Date 22 May 2017 Is the ECJ judgement a big deal for a big EU-UK deal? Last week’s ECJ judgement on the ‘mixity’ question in EU trade agreements was a big one for EU trade policy. The ECJ overturned the Advocate General and years of practice... Read more
Research Date 19 May 2017 The British Conservatives: May in the middle The election manifesto of the governing UK Conservative Party published yesterday was the most ambitious attempt to redefine British conservatism since the 1980s. It did this not by calling for... Read more