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Research Date 20 May 2016 Why John Kerry can't bank on EU banks Right after John Kerry met with the CEO’s of Europe’s largest banks last week in London, HSBC’s chief legal officer reflected the general mood among UK banks when he said... Read more
Research Date 19 May 2016 Europe’s political risk is Britain’s problem Fitch Ratings this week concluded that Brexit would increase political risk across Europe by boosting populist political parties, including many who are Eurosceptic, and by changing the political centre of... Read more
Report Date 19 May 2016 Firm foundations? UK residential property investment and the Housing and Planning Act Following a slow but ultimately successful passage through Parliament, the centrepiece of the UK government’s housing reform agenda has received Royal Assent. Through its explicit prioritisation of ownership over rental... Read more
Research Date 19 May 2016 Carbon pricing in Europe: where the UK and France leads, will Germany follow? On Monday 9 May 2016 at 23:10 something remarkable happened. For the first time since 1882 coal made no contribution to UK electricity generation. At the same moment, Germany, Europe’s... Read more
Research Date 13 May 2016 Beyond the Brexit noise – five other things the IMF said about the UK The IMF’s ‘Article IV’ assessment of the UK economy is dominating headlines for its roundly negative assessment of a vote to leave the EU - but beyond its Brexit judgments... Read more
Research Date 13 May 2016 The stakes for Brazil’s 180-day government So Dilma Rousseff is gone, at least for now. Over the next 180 days, Vice President Michel Temer will set out an economic agenda focused on the consolidation of public... Read more
Research Date 12 May 2016 Telco consolidation – where next after Three and O2? The EU’s Competition Commissioner Magrethe Vestager announced yesterday she had blocked the proposed merger of Hutchison’s Three and Telefonica’s O2 in the UK. This marks a clear departure from the... Read more
Research Date 11 May 2016 TDI redux: do two political problems make a political solution? TDI redux. The EU’s trade defence instruments (TDI) reform package was officially put back on the agenda by the Dutch EU presidency today after having been shelved in 2014. However... Read more
Research Date 11 May 2016 St Augustine, banking union and sovereign risk weights There has been some comment this week at the German decision to use Monday’s Eurogroup to push for a change to the way sovereign debt is risk weighted by EU... Read more
Research Date 9 May 2016 Erdogan’s dangerous numbers game Distribution of seats in Turkey’s current parliament Flicking through the news channels in the last two weeks has revealed an image of Turkey sliding deeper into political turmoil. One of... Read more
Research Date 9 May 2016 Scotland votes: have we seen ‘peak SNP’? The SNP have unexpectedly lost majority power in Scotland – what does this mean for the Scottish independence movement? Is it a sign of reversion to the pre-independence referendum status... Read more
Report Date 22 Mar 2016 The impact of Brexit: Asian edition For the majority of businesses in Britain the possibility the UK might leave the European Union - Brexit - is an important issue. The break with the EU and the... Read more
Report Date 17 Mar 2016 PIPS politics: what four recent European elections tell us The defeat of centre-right governments in Portugal, Ireland, Poland, and Spain despite favourable economic statistics highlights the difficulty for European governments to earn a political dividend if growth is not... Read more
Research Date 17 Mar 2016 How the refugee crisis transformed the AfD Fig 1: Support by professional group in Rheinland-Pfalz election, March 2016 Support of total group for AfD (%) Picking carefully through the numbers from the March 13 state elections in... Read more
Research Date 16 Mar 2016 Budget 2016: plugging the UK’s self-employment deficit? Today’s budget included a tax break for self-employed workers. The government’s approach is a rare example in Europe of promotion of the self-employment model, though the prospect of a comprehensive... Read more
Research Date 4 Mar 2016 Commission ambition meets UK experience London always likes to think it is a step ahead of Brussels. In electricity generation policy it may just be. EU Energy and Climate Change Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete has... Read more
Research Date 25 Feb 2016 How worried are Europeans about immigration? Europe is in the midst of a crisis over migration. But how worried are Europeans about immigration? The answer depends on whether you look at Europe as a whole, or... Read more
Research Date 22 Feb 2016 The ghost of Paul Volcker: is “too big to fail” returning to centre stage? Global regulator the Financial Stability Board is at pains to cast banking reform in 2016 as an implementation exercise, not a policy-making one. But the ghost of Paul Volcker lives... Read more