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Accelerating the delivery of clean electricity: Five focus areas to deliver on the UK's Clean Energy Mission for 2030

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UK capital markets: the growth engine

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Unleashing innovation in the NHS: barriers and opportunities for the adoption and uptake of Healthcare technologies

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Staying ahead: the case for a European Action Plan for Rare Diseases

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...

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...

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...

Disagreement deferred at Durban

This week’s Durban climate change summit got good reviews. Optimists highlighted the fact that any agreement at all was actually secured. By the unusually low standards of modern multilateral diplomacy...

Europe unites, Europe splits

The dust is settling on what may be an historic EU Summit in Brussels on 9 December, with a potentially far-reaching agreement on a step towards greater fiscal integration of...

Will India’s political monsoon season drown the next push for reform?

Ministers, the media, business leaders and the civil service in India openly describe 2011 as the worst year for governance in India’s recent history and a political inflection point in...

The pain in Spain: why the Rajoy government won’t expect a honeymoon

As much as any European election in recent memory, the political economy for the new Spanish conservative government looks extraordinarily limiting. New Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will have – and...