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Report Date 28 Feb 2018 Foreign Investment: Rising Tides of Politics in Regulation Recent years have seen important global shifts in both the policy frameworks for screening inward foreign investment and the way in which they are applied. These shifts come against a... Read more
Report Date 28 Feb 2018 How can Chinese investors and entrepreneurs navigate populism in the West? Inequalities are increasing amongst people in Europe and the US; this is having a profound impact on politics, creating resentments and instability; and this is impacting the way in which... Read more
Research Date 26 Feb 2018 The illusion of managed divergence The Institute for Government’s model of managed divergence for the UK and EU economies has been influential in shaping the UK government’s position. It’s an ingenious attempt to address some... Read more
Research Date 13 Feb 2018 When the regulator is a competitor Transport for London (TfL) is the city’s transport regulator, responsible for operating multiple modes of transport for 1.3bn passengers a year, such as the Tube, the Emirates Air Line and... Read more
Research Date 12 Feb 2018 The “cost” of Labour’s nationalisation agenda The nationalisation of several utilities and rail franchises is a key plank of the UK Labour Party’s policy platform. To the dismay of implicated business leaders, it is also relatively... Read more
Research Date 1 Feb 2018 Outsourcers' struggles in the UK are an opportunity for the mid-market Capita’s profit warning is yet another sign of the growing fragility of the large, generalist outsourcing sector in the UK. That no bail-out was forthcoming for Carillion showed that such... Read more
Research Date 25 Jan 2018 Fear and loathing in data protection All eyes in the tech community in Europe and beyond are fixed on 25th May 2018 when the EU’s General Data Protection Agreement (GDPR) finally enters into force. But many... Read more
Research Date 19 Jan 2018 Sizing up the British economy Are economic statistics – such as for inflation, growth and productivity – no longer reliable? And if not, what does this mean for economic policy and for businesses? These questions... Read more
Report Date 19 Jan 2018 Supporting Europe’s Economies and Citizens - A modern approach to financial services in an EU-UK Trade Agreement In September 2017, Global Counsel and Clifford Chance published with UK Finance a detailed set of proposals for the financial services content of a possible future EU-UK FTA. The proposals... Read more
Research Date 12 Jan 2018 Is Poland’s government reshuffle an olive branch to Brussels? Just under a month following his first attendance before the European Council, Poland’s new Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has piqued Brussels’ interest in his young premiership with a major cabinet... Read more
Research Date 5 Jan 2018 The political battle for consumers in the UK For some time now, the two main political parties in the UK have been battling for the same group of voters who feel disenfranchised, left behind and have faced what... Read more
Research Date 19 Dec 2017 Edtech solutions for the careers strategy The latest sale process for Thomas International, a psychometric and aptitude assessment provider, is well timed to coincide with the UK government’s publication this month of its long-awaited careers strategy... Read more
Research Date 18 Dec 2017 The limits of international cooperation on tax One of the clichés in international cooperation is that national governments’ enthusiasm for sharing cost centres evaporates when talk turns to sharing profit centres. This explains the imbalance between joint... Read more
Research Date 18 Dec 2017 Connecting the investor with the environmentalist: Europe’s push for sustainable finance Speaking at the One Planet Summit in Paris last week, EU Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis proposed a “major revamp of financial supervision” to accelerate Europe’s transition to a low-carbon economy. The... Read more
Research Date 14 Dec 2017 Competing visions for the future of the eurozone Over the summer, it looked as if there might be a breakthrough in the long-stalled discussions over eurozone reform. Emmanuel Macron had been elected president of France, promising to overhaul... Read more
Report Date 12 Dec 2017 Smooth crossings? The policy tools for a post-Brexit customs border The last few months have seen a growing awareness of the challenge facing both the EU and the UK in adapting their customs processing systems for the reimposition of a... Read more
Report Date 11 Dec 2017 Politics, populism and trust in business: discussions for the boardroom Over Summer 2017, EY and Global Counsel collaborated on a project reviewing the challenges posed for UK boards and managers by political populism. EY have just published some of these... Read more
Research Date 8 Dec 2017 Vladimir the fourth goes forth Vladimir Putin’s announcement to run for his fourth, and probably final, presidential term is no surprise. Thus far, all the polls indicate he will romp home on 18 March next... Read more