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Policymakers and the financial sector sought the nirvana of a complete market – and instead brought on a crisis. John Maynard Keynes famously wrote that “the ideas of...

A financial transaction tax would that help alleviate a range of our current crises. As economists from across the world, we call on the EU to implement a financial...

Enterprise commissioner tells European Business Summit that the public procurement sector is a particular problem Günter Verheugen, the European commissioner for...

One week after the April riots in Tallinn, while Estonia's embassy in Moscow was surrounded by an irate mob of pro-Kremlin youth groups and Estonian websites, both government...

“When the Federal Reserve cuts rates, things get better. When we don't cut ours, we sink.” Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, on the rate cut by the US Federal...

To listen to some vociferous non-governmental organisations, failure in the current round of world trade talks would be the best possible outcome. "Trade talks poised to...

Diseases such as malaria and AIDS, along with droughts, wars and being ‘left out' of the world trade produce a ‘silent tsunami' in Africa every month. David Cronin...

Dear DennisNo doubt you have returned from hobnobbing with the world's rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum in Davos invigorated, albeit exhausted, with the...

THE current European Ombudsman is, perhaps, on the longest job ‘probation' in the history of the EU. Nikiforos Diamandouros took up the post in April but, as his...

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The launch of euro notes and coins may signal the emergence of a true world economy. Dick Leonard argues a global currency is the next step As the final preparations are...

AMBASSADOR Gunnar Lund is in many ways perfectly suited to be Stockholm's man on the ground in Brussels when Sweden assumes the EU presidency in January. The job is just the...

IN ITALIAN political circles, they call him Dottore Sottile (Doctor Subtle). Giuliano Amato, Rome's newly appointed treasury minister, earned the nickname for his shrewd...

IF ASKED to decide which of the three newest EU member states had made the most waves since joining the Union, the majority of people would probably choose Sweden. The...