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
Report Date 18 Jun 2012 The Eurozone: banking union, bailout union or both? Madrid’s European bailout for the recapitalisation of some of its struggling savings banks last week has given new life to the question of ‘a banking union’ – pooled bank supervision... Read more
Report Date 1 Jun 2012 The EU’s new bank capital rules and Europe’s missing banking union On May 15 European member states adopted their compromise text for European Fourth Capital Requirements Directive/Capital Requirements Regulation (CRD4/CRR). This is the legal instrument by which the new international ‘Basel... Read more
Report Date 18 May 2012 Britain’s Coalition government: keep calm and carry on? This month marks the second anniversary of the UK’s Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government. After a strong start, the Coalition now looks increasingly strained. Two years of austerity politics, public sector... Read more
Report Date 9 May 2012 The rise of the carbon-sensitive shareholder The Carbon Tracker Initiative made a minor splash in the UK earlier this year by arguing that a large part of the value of the FTSE 500 was built on... Read more
Report Date 27 Apr 2012 Argentina: how not to assert energy independence The announcement on April 17 by Argentine President Christina Fernandez that she would be sending a bill to Congress to mandate the nationalisation of oil company YPF has sent shockwaves... Read more
Report Date 20 Apr 2012 Chasing the scooter vote: fuel subsidies in Indonesia's political economy The failure of the Indonesian government to implement planned reform of Indonesia’s massive retail fuel subsidies this month leaves Indonesia spending almost as much in subsidising vehicle use as it... Read more
Report Date 30 Mar 2012 Monti and Rajoy cross the labout market Rubicon Summary The governments of Mariano Rajoy in Spain and Mario Monti in Italy have both announced significant programmes of labour market reform as part of their economic reform agendas. Monti... Read more
Report Date 25 Mar 2012 Why a resurgent far-right will hand France to the left Although François Hollande has now been sworn in as President of France, his capacity to govern the country hangs on the outcome of the elections to the French Assembly in... Read more
Report Date 20 Mar 2012 Why Frankfurt is the new frontline in the Eurozone crisis Last week saw a further terse exchange between the European Central Bank and the German Bundesbank over the massive €1000bn expansion of the ECB’s balance through its Long Term Refinancing... Read more
Report Date 16 Mar 2012 Rajoy's rebellion Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy went to Brussels last week to announce that Spain would not meet its deficit reduction targets for 2012. After a week of negotiation, Spain has... Read more
Report Date 9 Mar 2012 Trade trumps solidarity for Brazil and China This week the Institute of International Finance warned that Latin America and Brazil in particular were not prepared for a possible slowdown in Chinese growth in 2012. This is a... Read more
Report Date 3 Mar 2012 What is the People's Bank of China's offshore strategy? Last week’s leaked report by the People’s Bank of China on the future liberalisation of China’s capital account and the internationalisation of the renminbi managed the difficult job of suggesting... Read more
Report Date 23 Feb 2012 The dragon in the room: US trade policy after the Doha Round With the Doha Round of world trade negotiations now effectively dead after ten years of talks the US is looking for ways to reboot the basis of its trade policy... Read more
Report Date 10 Feb 2012 Competition comes to Russian politics Russia’s ‘Winter’ is not an Arab Spring, but its impact will leave a lasting and profound change on the country. It has injected genuine competition into the political process. Fear... Read more
Report Date 10 Feb 2012 François Hollande says Non Polls suggest that François Hollande begins the French Presidential campaign as clear favourite to defeat Nicolas Sarkozy in April/May. Although the race is still contestable, Hollande currently leads Sarkozy across... Read more
Report Date 31 Jan 2012 Not the treaty Europe needed The new EU fiscal stability treaty focuses almost exclusively on imposing tighter fiscal disciplines on signatory states. Fear of difficult ratification debates and a big step into fiscal integration that... Read more
Report Date 26 Jan 2012 Is some form of European Financial Transaction Tax now inevitable? There is now a significant probability of some form of new Financial Transaction Tax at some level in Europe. The fact that the UK is strongly opposed to such a... Read more
Report Date 23 Jan 2012 The Eurozone's difficult year The Eurozone enters 2012 badly weakened and with a number of key interrelated risks hanging over it. Greece remains the most fundamental, but the weakness of the European banking system... Read more