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Research Date 9 Nov 2016 Top Trumps: thirteen takes on a Trump presidency Following the result of the US presidential election, we ask thirteen of our policy specialists for a first take on a Trump administration and its implications for policy and politics... Read more
Research Date 9 Nov 2016 Modi’s cash call: political genius or recklessness? It is an interesting week to be in Delhi. While everyone is trying to work out the implications of Donald Trump’s shock victory, Indians are also coming to terms with... Read more
Research Date 8 Nov 2016 What is the point of equivalence in EU financial services? UK commentators have spent recent weeks debating the opportunities offered by the EU’s ‘equivalence’ regime for companies outside the single market. The concept was significantly expanded by Michel Barnier to... Read more
Report Date 3 Nov 2016 Sizing up soft political risk Soft political risks from changes to regulation, fiscal policies and the way legislation is enforced are now at least as important as hard risks from security threats, political instability and... Read more
Research Date 2 Nov 2016 Berlin needs Oettinger Germany’s EU Commissioner, Günther Oettinger, is no diplomat. He has been accused of racism, homophobia and sexism following a speech he gave last week in which described Chinese diplomats as... Read more
Research Date 2 Nov 2016 Political support for the “gig economy”: nowhere left to hide? Ed Vaizey made a splash at Global Counsel’s breakfast “Digital Tech: Bridge or Barrier to Social Mobility?” when he suggested that self-employed platform workers should receive the minimum wage. The... Read more
Research Date 31 Oct 2016 An £18bn misunderstanding A British think tank rather definitively announced last week that it had added up the potential tariff bill for EU-UK trade in a ‘hard Brexit’ scenario – and declared the... Read more
Research Date 28 Oct 2016 'Singapore of the North Atlantic': a viable option for post-Brexit Britain? In the months since Brexit there have been murmurings about whether, post-Brexit, Britain could adopt a ‘Singapore model’. A number of Brexiteers in the financial sector have suggested that Britain... Read more
Research Date 28 Oct 2016 What kind of trade policy passes the Namur test? After a rough week in Namur, Wallonia’s capital, EU member states and EU trade policymakers will be reflecting on what CETA's near death brush with elected politicians means for future... Read more
Research Date 27 Oct 2016 Offshore Britain? According to one major newspaper, the UK Government is developing a “nuclear” Brexit negotiating threat in the form of a corporation tax cut to 10%. The logic goes that the... Read more
Research Date 26 Oct 2016 Spain will have a new government, but how much will it be able to do? After 10 months of political uncertainty and two general elections, Spain will now get a government, but one that will be severely constrained. Incumbent interim centre-right Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy... Read more
Research Date 21 Oct 2016 Is Donald Trump about to become an exception to the ‘October 31 rule’? Donald Trump’s performance in the third and final presidential debate seems unlikely to do much to stem his plummeting popularity. It is not unusual for presidential campaigns to be tawdry... Read more
Research Date 21 Oct 2016 Pravin Gordhan and what happens next in South Africa In his time, Pravin Gordhan has played many roles: pharmacist; anti-apartheid activist; prisoner; chief taxman; and finance minister not once, but twice. In South Africa’s current political morality play, he... Read more
Research Date 21 Oct 2016 CETA: What’s the matter with Wallonia? This has been a tricky week for EU trade policy. Up until last Friday, EU governments were largely expected to unanimously give their final greenlight in this week’s Council meeting... Read more
Research Date 14 Oct 2016 Less taxation for… more representation The German federal election is less than a year away and strategists in the two large coalition parties are both preparing to answer the same question: how to change the... Read more
Research Date 14 Oct 2016 Marmite for banks When British Prime Minister Theresa May addressed her Conservative Party conference earlier this month she railed against the side-effects of super-low interest rates and bemoaned the cost to savers. She... Read more
Research Date 13 Oct 2016 The 100,000 person question Immigration is the simmering political issue at the heart of Brexit. Much of the debate has focused on how far the UK can reclaim control of EU migration into the... Read more
Research Date 12 Oct 2016 In the Brexit divorce, who gets custody of the EU’s FTAs? Like many divorces, Brexit is going to be a custody battle of sorts. UK Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox has warned (via his preferred UK newspapers) his... Read more