Opinion pieces

Users could be losers in 'EU vs Google'

The debate misses a crucial point: the purpose of antitrust law is to protect consumers, not competitors. Google’s undue penalization of a p

Mario Mariniello

Germany needs a service sector to match its makers

Only 10 years ago, Germany was considered the sick man of Europe, but the German economy is now admired for its strength. However, important

Guntram B. Wolff

Trade is the true test of the world’s green shoots

The government shutdown aside, news from the US has been encouraging; despair on the eurozone is abating; and the Chinese slowdown has been orderly. G

Ashoka Mody

A new way for Germany and Europe

When the new German government takes over, it should not wait for long until it makes the euro area a central topic on its agenda.

Guntram B. Wolff

Making the internal electricity market work

Why the economic pressure to create a comprehensive internal energy market is building

Georg Zachmann

A New Greek Test for Europe

Europeans must brace themselves for another bout of political and legal turmoil. The Europe that emerges from it could look, for better or worse, very

Ashoka Mody

Reshaping Europe’s financial system

With the upcoming Asset Quality Review (AQR) by the European Central Bank, Europe has a chance to fundamentally reshape its financial system to make i

André Sapir and Guntram B. Wolff

Euribor and the limits of antitrust

The European Commission is investigating a suspected banking industry cartel, one of the many consequences of the opening of the London Interbank Offe

Mario Mariniello

Brussels drops the call on Europe's single digital market

The European Commission's reforms are too coy about making the changes that would create a true digital single market.

Mario Mariniello

The euro area needs a German miracle

Recent sentiment indicators of the euro area are encouraging but return to lasting health of the euro area economy will still require major further st

Guntram B. Wolff

EU trade with Myanmar and the grasshopper problem

The European Union’s decision to reinstate Burmese access to the generalised scheme of tariff preferences (GSP) was the right move, bec

The rupee’s wake-up call

The Indian rupee has weakened rapidly in recent months, with the exchange rate against the US dollar dropping by 11%, to around 60 rupees, since early

Ashoka Mody

Mehr Augen sehen mehr

Soll Deutschland einer gemeinsamen Bankenaufsicht auf EU-Ebene zustimmen, oder gibt Berlin dadurch zu viele Kompetenzen auf?

Guntram B. Wolff

Misreading the Global Economy

In April 2010, the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook offered an optimistic assessment of the global economy, describing a

Ashoka Mody

Europe’s Troika should grow up

In early 2010, a group of men (and a few women) in dark suits landed in Athens. They belonged to a global institution, the International Monetary Fund

Jean Pisani-Ferry

Germany must lead by example on fixing its banks

Charles Kindleberger, the pre-eminent historian of financial crises, described a hegemon as a country willing to accept short-term costs for the sake

Ashoka Mody