Blog
December 6, 2016
On Sunday night, following a shock negative result in a referendum on the constitutional reform he had championed, Matteo Renzi, Italy’s Prime Minister, announced his resignation.
December 1, 2016
Since the 1992 MacSharry reform, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has undergone substantial changes.
November 17, 2016
On September 17th, more than 100,000 people took to the streets of several German cities to protest against both the TTIP and CETA.
November 10, 2016
Posting of workers plays an essential role in the internal market of the European Union.
November 1, 2016
Repeat after me: tariffs primarily hurt domestic consumers – not foreign exporters. Tariffs primarily hurt the consumers of the country imposing them on imported goods.
October 27, 2016
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a prospective trade deal between Canada and the EU, came to a screeching halt in the last second before the EU-Canada summit that was proposed for today.
October 5, 2016
When the eurozone debt crisis broke out in late 2009, there was considerable agreement among policymakers that budgetary prudence and structural reform must be at the heart of the crisis response.
September 21, 2016
Economic debates are often presented as a contest between two opposing interest groups. Marxian socialism pitted capital against labour.
September 13, 2016
Infrastructure investment is often presented by policymakers as a silver bullet in times of recession or sluggish growth.
