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Report Date 12 Jul 2018 Europe in the Global Economy A distinctive feature of President Juncker’s “political” European Commission was a single set of collective top-down priorities, rather than a stitching together of the agendas of individual commissioners. In 2014... Read more
Research Date 10 Jul 2018 Investing in telecoms: missing the opportunity? Back in 2016, with the Digital Single Market agenda still in its infancy, the European Commission launched its ambitious reform of telecoms regulation. The so-called European Electronic Communications Code (EECC)... Read more
Research Date 9 Jul 2018 The analytics of football’s possible return home The twenty-three men of the England World Cup squad in Russia have done more to restore respect for Britain abroad than any number of ministerial visits, soft power exchanges and... Read more
Research Date 6 Jul 2018 UK Trade Remedy choices: from internal critic to unilateral disarmer? Over the next few months, the UK is likely to start setting out its detailed plans for the establishment of a UK trade remedies system after it has left the... Read more
Research Date 2 Jul 2018 “Cryptocurrencies” vs “crypto-assets”: the regulatory battle for a token taxonomy The Bank of England’s governor, Mark Carney, said in a speech in March that it is better to refer to cryptocurrencies as “crypto-assets” - that is, to see them as... Read more
Research Date 28 Jun 2018 Tech and children’s mental health The ubiquity of social media platforms is raising increasing concern within the UK government, resulting in urgent calls for more scrutiny on technology companies - this time on child protection... Read more
Research Date 21 Jun 2018 British business: political piggy bank? In October 2016, UK Chancellor Phillip Hammond was reportedly considering slashing the UK’s Corporation Tax rate to 10%, as part of creating a low-tax post-Brexit UK economy. Tonight, he will... Read more
Research Date 18 Jun 2018 The recent Melrose-GKN deal demonstrates how post-offer undertakings became the new norm The bid by private equity firm Melrose for UK-based advanced manufacturer GKN attracted substantial interest from politicians from both of Britain’s largest political parties. Conservative MPs were concerned that Britain’s... Read more
Research Date 12 Jun 2018 European power plays in foreign policy European influence in the world is under threat. The privileged role enjoyed by European states in multilateral institutions has been challenged by the big emerging countries for some time now... Read more
Report Date 11 Jun 2018 Global Counsel Brexit dashboard Q2 2018 This is the second quarterly issue of the Global Counsel Brexit dashboard. Two years on from the vote – and with just nine months before the UK leaves the EU... Read more
Research Date 25 May 2018 Facebook’s political brand repair Facebook’s recent decision to run newspaper adverts promoting the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which enters into force today, have raised some eyebrows. It is, of course, interesting to... Read more
Research Date 23 May 2018 Has the EU lost its nerve on US retaliation? The EU’s temporary exemption from the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium comes to an end on June 1st. When Washington first announced it was moving to... Read more
Research Date 17 May 2018 The UK’s Brexit security gambit The UK and the EU have been staking out their positions on the future security partnership over the past week. This pillar of the Brexit negotiation matters in its own... Read more
Research Date 11 May 2018 UK and Japan: Splitting the nuclear bill? Last week, UK prime minister, Theresa May, met with the CEO of Hitachi, Hiroaki Nakanishi, to discuss how to finance the new Horizon nuclear plant at Wylfa in Anglesey. The... Read more
Research Date 4 May 2018 Iran deal: If Trump pulls out, business gets drawn in Time is running out for the Iran nuclear deal. Trump’s self-imposed 12 May deadline, by which he wants to decide whether to continue waving sanctions lifted under the nuclear agreement... Read more
Research Date 27 Apr 2018 Freezing out palm oil - punishing the crop not the crime? Iceland, a UK supermarket chain, has announced that it intends to ban palm oil from all of its own brand products by the end of 2018. Such a move on... Read more
Research Date 25 Apr 2018 Breaking up is hard to do I call it the Neil Sedaka question. Whenever I am in California, the conversation soon turns to whether, for the FANGs, in Sedaka’s words, “breaking up is hard to do”... Read more
Research Date 20 Apr 2018 It’s time to focus on US political risk The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook warns that waning support for global integration, geopolitical strains and political uncertainty have the potential to upset global growth prospects. It is not the... Read more