Beyond the CAP
Why the EU shouldn’t be spending nearly half its budget supporting agribusiness and landowners. Read my new e-brief for the Lisbon Council
View ArticleThought of the day: Ireland
I spent a fantastic weekend in Kilkenny, at Kilkenomics, Ireland’s first economics (and comedy) festival. Despite (and because of) the crisis, it was a sell-out. Congrats to Richard Cook and David...
View ArticleCan Europe really control its borders?
I was interviewed on BBC World’s World News Today on 1 December 2010 about whether the EU’s border policy is working, whether Europe really can control its borders, and whether there might be a better...
View ArticleIs immigration endangering European society?
No. I won the debate against David Goodhart on The Economist’s website, by 51%-49%. Thank you to everyone who voted No.
View ArticleWas David Cameron right to isolate Britain in Europe to try to defend the...
I debated the fiasco at the summit of EU leaders on 8-9 December on BBC Radio 4′s The World Tonight with Angela Knight, former Conservative minister and now lobbyist for the British Banking...
View ArticleA new European growth agenda
Austerity alone cannot solve Europe’s economic and financial crisis. Growth and jobs need to be promoted with equal zeal. My new article for Project Syndicate explains how.
View ArticleThe ECB Fear Factor
Panic is beginning to overwhelm the eurozone. Italy and Spain are caught in the maelstrom. Belgium is slipping into the danger zone. As France is dragged down, the widening gap between its bond yields...
View ArticleA New European Growth Agenda
Austerity alone cannot solve Europe’s economic and financial crisis. Growth and jobs need to be promoted with equal zeal. European Union leaders now recognize this: kick-starting growth in 2012 was...
View ArticleHur flexibla är Washington och Bryssel?
Europa och Amerika har glidit isär. Med ett uppåtstigande Kina och när kalla kriget blivit ett avlägset minne har USA flyttat sitt fokus till Asien. Därför är Barack Obamas besök i Stockholm den 4...
View ArticleEn våg av populism i Europa
Bekymrar det att Sverigedemokraterna ligger kring tio procent i opinionsundersökningarna? Med tanke på valet till Europaparlamentet i maj nästa år borde det oroa ännu mer att det går så pass bra för...
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European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics are in a Mess – and How to...
Britain and the rest of Europe are in a mess. Our economies are failing to deliver higher living standards for most people and many have lost faith in politicians’ ability to deliver a brighter...
View ArticleEx-ECB chief economist Issing’s flawed euro crisis narrative
Former ECB chief economist Otmar Issing has a piece in today’s FT that is riddled with mistakes and misconceptions. The headline gives you the gist of it: “Get your finances in order and stop blaming...
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Here’s that super-strong eurozone recovery they’re all raving about
GDP, Q1 2008 = 100. The three lines at the top are Sweden, the US and Switzerland, all outperforming Germany. Southern Europe remains a disaster zone. As Tacitus said, “Where they make a desert, they...
View Article‘The EU is in deep trouble’– interviewed by Joop Hazenberg of Next Europe
It is the duty of anyone who truly believes in Europe to not unquestioningly agree with whatever is decided in Brussels, but to say ‘no, this is not the kind of Europe that we want, we want a different...
View ArticleIn the EU we (mis) trust
Last week I gave the keynote speech at “In the EU we (mis) trust”, an event organised by the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam. It is part of series of events to debate the New Pact for Europe,...
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Why the EU should be much tougher with Russia over Ukraine
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View ArticleThe crisis was misdiagnosed – Reuters piece on European Spring
At the height of the euro zone debt crisis, with Portugal’s economy nearing collapse, the European Commission told the government in Lisbon that it had to slash wages if it was ever going to boost...
View ArticleEurozone fiscal colonialism – my piece in the New York Times
“The primary cause of the crisis was the reckless lending of German and French banks (both directly and through local banks) to Spanish and Irish homeowners, Portuguese consumers and the Greek...
View ArticleEuropean Spring is out today; read an exclusive extract in the Independent
Like passengers on an up escalator, Britons and other Europeans for decades enjoyed seemingly effortless rises in living standards year after year. Expanding economies and swelling social spending...
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