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Report Date 19 Apr 2013 The rise of transparency as regulation Two big new EU legislative decisions this month have aligned the EU with the US in creating a strong new precedent for country by country tax and payments reporting requirements... Read more
Report Date 5 Apr 2013 Scotland's Choice On the 18th September 2014 Scotland will hold a referendum on the single question, “Should Scotland become an independent country?”. Campaign activity on both sides is underway, and the debate... Read more
Report Date 27 Mar 2013 Mr. Xi in Moscow Last weekend’s Sino-Russian Summit was Xi Jinping’s first foreign trip as Chinese President. The choice of Moscow was more than symbolism. It was a marker in a rapidly evolving relationship... Read more
Report Date 18 Mar 2013 Bitter lessons of Cyprus The attempt to make Cyprus’ international bailout contingent on an enforced bail-in of Cypriot bank depositors is a serious political gamble for the EU and a gamble on market sentiment... Read more
Report Date 4 Mar 2013 Deutsche Börse unclear futures The European Commission’s rejection of the combination of Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext in 2012 was one of the biggest merger stories of the year. The speculation this week that... Read more
Report Date 26 Feb 2013 The 2013 Italian Election The Italian election of February 24-25 is becoming increasingly hard to call with any certainty, as the centre-right under Silvio Berlusconi continues to close the gap on the centre-left coalition... Read more
Report Date 15 Feb 2013 The costs of the Spanish scandal Spanish politics have taken a dramatic turn in the last fortnight, and one that has not fully registered outside of Spain. Spain’s biggest political scandal of the post-Franco era may... Read more
Report Date 30 Jan 2013 François Hollande and labour market reform January was a month of war and peace in Paris. The same day France committed military forces in Mali, a three month negotiation between France’s employers' federation and its major... Read more
Report Date 22 Jan 2013 China's part in Tom Albanese's downfall Tom Albanese’s departure from Rio Tinto last week was precipitated by substantial write downs in Rio Tinto’s aluminium businesses. Rather than just a case of a badly-timed bet on the... Read more
Report Date 8 Jan 2013 A very British split: the UK Banking Reform Bill This week the UK government has published draft legislation that will restructure British banks on significantly different terms than the rest of Europe and the US, and on terms that... Read more
Report Date 21 Dec 2012 US trade policy and politics in 2013 The granting of the Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to Russia by the US last week is probably the most significant US trade policy development in a year when... Read more
Report Date 13 Dec 2012 The EU banking 'union' deal In Brussels yesterday, Eurozone governments salvaged something from their commitment to put in place plans for a banking ‘union’ in Europe before the end of 2012. After the high expectations... Read more
Report Date 29 Nov 2012 The political small print in the EU budget At face value, last week’s collapsed budget negotiations in Brussels were a reminder that there is a good reason why the European Union only debates its long term budget once... Read more
Report Date 26 Nov 2012 The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: putting the soft in soft power In the last two weeks the European Commission has proposed further tightening for the EU’s flagship Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) to try to raise European carbon prices. At the... Read more
Report Date 16 Nov 2012 François Hollande after six months This week marks six months in the French Presidency for François Hollande. Despite a strong Presidential election victory and socialist strength at all levels of French government, Hollande’s popularity ratings... Read more
Report Date 9 Nov 2012 Why there will be no simple wins in the solar panel trade wars The long year dispute between the EU, the US and China over solar panel exports escalated again this week with a Chinese WTO challenge to the EU’s energy subsidy regime... Read more
Report Date 2 Nov 2012 Rosneft and BP: oil, money and foreigners Last week’s announcement that Rosneft would agree to buy BP’s stake in its TNK-BP joint venture will almost certainly be the Russian deal of the year. The tie-up sharply increases... Read more
Report Date 24 Oct 2012 Is Warsaw the new London for Berlin? Like other non-Eurozone EU states, including the UK, Poland faces a fundamental problem of how to deal with potentially being sidelined in an EU increasingly dominated by Eurozone issues and... Read more