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Report Date 11 Apr 2014 Europe's 28 Russian energy questions Vladimir Putin’s letter to European leaders has raised the threat of gas supply disruption in Europe and once again posed the question - how reliant should the EU be on... Read more
Report Date 28 Mar 2014 Ecobank and the African cross-border banking gap Leadership changes at African retail bank Ecobank two weeks ago ended a long and debilitating governance crisis for the bank. These events offer a case-study in the complicated politics of... Read more
Report Date 19 Mar 2014 Scotland ‘independence lite’ or ‘devo more’ Six months from today voters in Scotland will be waking up to discover their collective answer to the question “should Scotland be an independent country?” For now polls indicate that... Read more
Report Date 28 Feb 2014 Ukraine debt, democracy and division The interim government formed in Kiev this week will need political skill, external support and good fortune if it is to restore stability, hold the country together and satisfy the... Read more
Report Date 21 Feb 2014 Stress test: transforming the ECB in 2014 In 2014 the European Central Bank (ECB) will take on one of the biggest and most complex banking supervision roles in the world. For the ECB this is an institutional... Read more
Report Date 12 Feb 2014 Indonesia the Wirjawan question Late last month, Indonesian Trade minister Gita Wirjawan stood down to concentrate on his long-anticipated campaign for the Indonesian Presidency. Wirjawan has set the tone for Indonesian inward investment and... Read more
Report Date 5 Feb 2014 The joyless generation the declining prospects of middle earners Middle earners could be on the verge of a secular stagnation in their real incomes. In many advanced economies the benefits of GDP growth appear to be increasingly concentrated on... Read more
Report Date 27 Jan 2014 Europe’s 2030 climate targets feeling the squeeze Last week saw the European Commission announce its proposals for new energy and climate change targets. The headlines were a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels, and... Read more
Report Date 6 Dec 2013 Germany and energy black and red but less green Last week’s German Coalition agreement produced an agenda which will trim some of the costs and moderate some of the ambition of the Energiewende. What it fails to do is... Read more
Report Date 25 Nov 2013 Solvency II and Europe's regulatory reach On November 13, an important provisional agreement was reached in Brussels on the EU’s flagship regulation of insurance companies – Solvency II. As part of the package the EU appears... Read more
Report Date 18 Nov 2013 The politics of the German surplus For investors in Europe the question of the Eurozone’s internal macroeconomic imbalances is central to the long term sustainability of the currency block. Last week, for the first time, the... Read more
Report Date 21 Oct 2013 Slovenia: the Eurozone's next bailout? Without attracting much wider attention, Slovenia has spent the last six months struggling to avoid following Cyprus into a Eurozone bailout. In particular, Ljubljana has been fighting a rear-guard action... Read more
Report Date 4 Oct 2013 Yangtze experiment the Shanghai Free Trade Zone The plans for the new Shanghai Free Trade Zone have been closely read since they were published by the Chinese authorities at the end of last week. Details about the... Read more
Report Date 1 Oct 2013 The shrinking German and Dutch centre-left This week the German centre left Social Democratic Party will open preliminary talks with Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU on the formation of a Grand Coalition government in which it would... Read more
Report Date 25 Sep 2013 EU-Ukraine: what Russia does next Last Wednesday Ukraine reached a major political milestone in its relations with the EU when the Ukrainian government gave the green light to the signing of an Association Agreement between... Read more
Report Date 3 Sep 2013 The 2013 German election This report argues that: After five decades, the idea that Germany owes a special debt to European integration is losing its force. The process of reform that Germany has undertaken... Read more
Report Date 2 Sep 2013 The Moscow election: too big to jail Later this week Moscow will go to the polls to choose a new mayor in an election for control of a city that is both the centre of the Russian... Read more
Report Date 5 Aug 2013 Publicis/Omnicom: regulators and the global market for marketing Nothing raises anti-trust eyebrows like a mega merger, and the proposed Publicis/Omnicom combination last week is certainly that. The deal will have to be approved by competition regulators in Europe... Read more