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...
Policy win for Policy Exchange but Government’s insistence for good design should also be extended to style
This week’s long awaited update to government’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) announced, in the words of Secretary of State for Housing James Brokenshire, that quantity must not compromise quality when it comes to the building of new homes. The NPPF now...
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...
The Brexit White Paper – room for improvement
The Government’s White Paper on The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union (Cm (9593) is complex – and Parliament has set about cleaning it up. Many dimensions of the relationship set out within it remain unclear even if the EU were to...
