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Research Date 28 Jun 2016 Is there still life in bipartidismo? The story of Spain’s December 2015 general election was fragmentation. I made the case myself here. Spain’s historic two main parties – the centre-right PP and the centre-left PSOE –... Read more
Research Date 23 Jun 2016 Information is power for the 21st century taxman EU countries agreed last night a set of common anti-avoidance principles for corporate taxation, incorporating the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting principles into law. This is seen by many... Read more
Research Date 22 Jun 2016 Three ways Brexit could hurt Turkey While a lot has been written and said about the impact of Brexit on EU member states (and we have offered our own assessment), less attention has been paid to... Read more
Research Date 21 Jun 2016 Fed slashes interest rates again That is the headline you did not read last week, but in many ways it should have been. The focus of analysts has naturally been on when the Federal Open... Read more
Report Date 20 Jun 2016 The Consequences of the EU Referendum Whatever the result on 23 June Britain faces political risk. If Britain votes to leave there will be political instability in the UK, the process of withdrawal will be messy... Read more
Research Date 17 Jun 2016 The Don, the Dems and Dodd-Frank We now have two all-but-certain US Presidential candidates. For all their manifest differences, they have one thing in common: neither has warmly endorsed the Dodd-Frank post-crisis framework for banks. So... Read more
Research Date 17 Jun 2016 SPIEF: talk business, think sanctions When the guests of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) land at Pulkovo airport the first thing they see are the huge advertising posters of the US-sanctioned Bank Rossiya... Read more
Research Date 15 Jun 2016 Metro-mayors, and the new policy space in England’s cities Friday saw the close of nominations to be Labour’s candidate for the new posts of metropolitan mayors of Greater Manchester, West Midlands, and Liverpool City Region. The choice by an... Read more
Research Date 15 Jun 2016 Chicago on Thames Another ‘what if’ Brexit case study yesterday. ESMA has finally announced that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has been recognised as a qualified central counterparty for EU banks and investment... Read more
Report Date 14 Jun 2016 Dealing with political risk: What FTSE-100 companies say Political risk takes many forms and is not easily defined, but it is high and rising by just about any standard. Governments are under pressure or have been forced out... Read more
Research Date 13 Jun 2016 The ‘other NAFTA’ Mexican trade negotiators are in Brussels today for the first round of negotiations to upgrade the fifteen-year-old EU-Mexico FTA. The 2000 EU-Mexico agreement was one of the first ‘modern’ (translation... Read more
Research Date 9 Jun 2016 Rudd’s amber light on the Green Economy Last week’s Global Status Report from the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) makes for striking reading. In 2015 global new investment in renewable energy hit a... Read more
Research Date 1 Jun 2016 EU carbon market reform: a victory for compromise over ambition Yesterday the price of carbon in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) – the carbon market the EU describes as its principal policy tool for decarbonisation - hovered around... Read more
Research Date 31 May 2016 Brexit TiSA trailer At the end of last week the European Commission released its latest proposed bindings of market access terms in the long-running Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) negotiations in Geneva. For... Read more
Research Date 31 May 2016 The G7 lives, for now Seven years ago as it prepared for G20 summit in London the British government debated internally whether the G8 was worth bothering about. The contention then was that a successful... Read more
Research Date 27 May 2016 Is the Digital Single Market running out of steam? The Digital Single Market strategy was launched with great fanfare last year with the aim of creating an online consumer market of over 500 million people and to give encouragement... Read more
Research Date 24 May 2016 Women and the far right The European political establishment breathed a sigh of relief when the former Austrian Green leader Alexander Van Der Bellen won that country’s Presidential election by a razor-thin 0.7% margin a... Read more
Research Date 23 May 2016 Resolution irresolution Another week, another banking union/disunion issue. A draft set of European Commission proposals in the public domain this week seem to confirm the intent not to seek explicit EU harmonisation... Read more