Featured insight Type Report Date 16 Apr 2024 Staying ahead: the case for a European Action Plan for Rare Diseases Read more
Featured insight Type Report Date 05 Mar 2024 The 2024 elections: where next for the “Techlash”? Read more
Featured insight Type Report Date 01 Mar 2024 The State of the Border: Business Experience of the UK Border 2023 Read more
Featured insight Type Report Date 25 Jan 2024 The Politics of 2024: the view from Asia, Americas, Middle East and Europe 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
Research Date 18 May 2017 Draghi’s monetary policy predicament If you want to understand the predicament facing ECB Governor Mario Draghi you need look no further than estimates of long-run real interest rates for the major eurozone economies. Real... Read more
Research Date 11 May 2017 Thinking out loud on globalisation The European Commission published this week its assessment of how the benefits of globalisation can be harnessed, while addressing the anxieties that are also created and which are impacting on... Read more
Research Date 9 May 2017 Theresa May’s energy price cap: more about who, than how When it finally came, UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement that she would introduce a cap on energy prices if re-elected was made more in anger than in sorrow. Declaring... Read more
Research Date 2 May 2017 Brexit and energy: the view from Europe Today, the BEIS Select Committee released its report on the UK government’s Brexit negotiating priorities on energy and climate change. The report highlights important issues, including the need for a... Read more
Research Date 26 Apr 2017 Trump races to the bottom with dynamic models The NASDAQ reached an all-time high yesterday as Donald Trump announced he wants to more than halve the US corporation tax rate, from 35% to 15%. But he knows that... Read more
Research Date 25 Apr 2017 May’s Manifesto – The Ins and Outs With the UK now set for a general election on 8 June, attention has turned to the party manifestos. Given the general expectation that the Conservatives will win a large... Read more
Research Date 25 Apr 2017 It’s good to talk in Washington When the finance ministers of the world’s largest economies gathered in Washington over the weekend they had in front of them IMF analysis of the global economy that for once... Read more
Research Date 25 Apr 2017 The audio-visual single market unravels – saying goodbye to the country of origin principle A vote today in the European Parliament’s Culture Committee on the reform of the Audio-Visual Media Services (AVMS) Directive signals a significant re-nationalisation of the EU’s single market in online... Read more
Research Date 20 Apr 2017 Brexit means what Theresa May says it means Theresa May’s decision to call a general election on 8 June is timed to minimise disruption to the negotiations with the EU. The early stages were always going to be... Read more
Research Date 19 Apr 2017 Washing up before the election With the UK Parliament likely to dissolve on the 2-3 May, ahead of the 8 June election, there will now be a frantic scramble for the UK government to complete... Read more
Research Date 13 Apr 2017 The politicisation of monetary policy Central bankers have never operated in a political vacuum, even though many of the most important are at least operationally independent. For some, that independence is now being eroded -... Read more
Research Date 13 Apr 2017 A Brexit pill for Romania When you mention EU states competing to win a prestigious and powerful European regulatory agency from Britain after Brexit, most people would probably think of the European Banking Authority. But... Read more
Research Date 10 Apr 2017 Fintech revolution or market evolution? When David becomes Goliath When the European Commission holds its public hearing on the Capital Markets Union (CMU) tomorrow, one of the key questions will be how to promote fintech while ensuring consumer confidence... Read more
Research Date 10 Apr 2017 Early positioning and leverage in the Brexit negotiation The early stages of any negotiation are all about positioning. The Brexit negotiation is no different. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s letter invoking Article 50 - and the draft negotiating... Read more
Research Date 7 Apr 2017 Greener than Trump: how seriously can we take Chinese low carbon leadership? Whatever gets discussed at Mar-a-Lago between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, it probably won’t include climate change. Trump has just ripped up Obama’s Clean Power Plan and approved Keystone XL... Read more
Research Date 6 Apr 2017 Is this the tipping point for off-payroll working? Regional UK city Lincoln’s hospital’s Accident & Emergency Department was at risk of being closed this week. This was not due to a deluge of patients or a lack of... Read more
Research Date 24 Mar 2017 How multi-speed can Europe be? As European leaders head to Rome this weekend to contemplate the EU’s future, there is an elephant in the room, and it is not actually Brexit. It is the question... Read more