Europe’s Trade Problem: Closed markets that stay closed result in a defective approach to science and the management of risk evaluation
The agreement between President Trump and Mr Jean Claude Juncker in Washington DC to set aside recent trade irritants and think about a more open trading relationship in the years ahead is welcome. It should remind us that the EU economy – as a result of EU...
Trade War 2: European antitrust authorities take aim at Silicon Valley
Margrethe Vestager – veteran Danish politician and EU’s current Competition Commissioner – knows how to turn a phrase. “There’s no such thing as a free search”, she quipped, just before imposing a record €4.3 billion fine on Google for antitrust violations, in an...
Dr Graham Gudgin examines the likely options for a future trade relationship between the UK and EU
Next week at Chequers the Cabinet will make the latest, and hopefully final, attempt to decide what sort of customs arrangements the UK seeks with the EU. The decision will determine much about Britain’s economic future including whether we will be able to strike new...
Monetary policy after the Great Recession – time for the eurozone to grasp the nettle?
The huge achievement The advanced economies of the OECD principally concentrated in North America and Europe have now largely recovered from the macro-economic consequences of the credit crunch and the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009. Market economies faced their...
