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Improving competitiveness through regulatory reform. The EU summit on 30 January focused on competitiveness, growth and job creation (“A different kind of response?”, 2-8...

Proposed law aimed at harmonising consumer protection across the EU. A provisional deal has been struck between negotiators for the European Parliament, the European...

France has performed better than expected during the Great Recession, but it does have some major economic weaknesses. While Europe has been focusing on the stunning...

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Why simplifying regulation would help boost economic growth. It is now a year since the financial crisis first truly shook the global economy. In that year, governments have...

There are some fine ideas being put forward on how to repair damaged financial markets, but what will happen is still far from certain. The leaders of the European Union are...

EU competition authorities clear the Dutch government's cash-for-equity bail-out of ING. The Dutch government's emergency move to re-capitalise the bank ING with...

EU executive's proposals would not come into force for two years. The European Commission has drawn up plans to create a pan-European ‘college of supervisors' that...

Can Jon Cunliffe, Gordon Brown's Europe adviser, succeed as a one-man show? During his long wait at the Treasury to become UK prime minister, Gordon Brown came to value two...

The UK's economic ‘miracle' is being shown in its true, dismal, light. The Peter Principle holds that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his/her level of...

The lessons of the West's financial crisis are numerous, but the underlying one is that we should be more open-minded and commonsensical. The significance of the current...

Central banks must step up to the plate and take a bigger role in financial regulation, however uncomfortable that may be for some. Last Thursday we saw the first...

Two MEPs discuss the European business climate.

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is a no-frills kind of guy, a trait that might not make for good television, but which has created some amusing anecdotes over...

The ghost of Gordon Brown took human form at the European Council in the shape of Jon Cunliffe. Until very recently, Cunliffe was the second most senior official at the UK...

It is the ill-concealed wish of Gordon Brown, the UK chancellor of the exchequer, that by this time next year (but preferably a lot sooner), he will no longer be the UK...

Businesses and national regulators are supposed to be working hard to achieve the European Commission's ambition of a single market for financial services. But after seven...