Blog post
07 February 2017
How good a shield is Privacy Shield?
Privacy Shield was put in place in 2016 to ensure that transfers of personal data from the EU to the US would be in compliance with European Union pri
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Policy brief
02 February 2017
Making the best of the European single market
Now more than ever, the EU needs to address concerns about the significant decline in productivity growth and the increasing perception of unfairness.
Blog post
21 October 2016
Beyond hard, soft and no Brexit
There is still a certain degree of fuzziness about what the different degrees of Brexit entail. We attempt to fill this gap by setting out the options
Blog post
20 September 2016
What does China’s ‘belt and road initiative’ mean for EU trade?
Much has been written about the Belt and Road initiative since Xi Jinping made it Beijing’s flagship initiative in September 2013. There are many inte
Blog post
18 August 2016
How to make the single market more inclusive after Brexit
The creation of the single market generated winners and losers. Yet redistribution remains first and foremost a competence of national governments.
Blog post
19 July 2016
Single market access from outside the EU: three key prerequisites
In relative terms, Norway’s current net financial contribution to the EU is similar to the UK’s. Switzerland and Liechtenstein pay surprisingly little
Opinion piece
19 July 2016
The difficulties of defining EU-UK economic relations
Negotiations on the UK's exit from the EU have not yet begun, but the UK leadership needs to find a balance between single market access and free move
Blog post
25 June 2016
The UK / EU separation: how fast does it happen?
Up until the British rebuff on 23 June 2016, the European Union had always been in expansion mode, also known in EU parlance as enlargement. The UK vo
Opinion piece
08 June 2016
The Juncker plan needs to be turned on its head
The Juncker Plan was launched one year ago to boost investment in Europe: has the plan been successful so far? How can we better use the EIB to increa
Blog post
17 May 2016
Assessing the Juncker Plan after one year
With the Juncker Plan, the European Commission intends to support valuable risky projects by expanding the risk capacity of the EIB. But has the new E
Opinion piece
17 March 2016
The UK’s sovereignty myth
Those who argue that Brexit would let the UK “take back sovereignty” overlook the impact of trade on domestic law-making.
Blog post
09 March 2016
Brexit and the EU-UK deal: consequences for the EU
The debate on Brexit focuses on the economic and political consequences for the United Kingdom, but ignores the impact of the new EU-UK agreement on t
Policy brief
28 January 2016
One market, two monies: the European Union and the United Kingdom
So far, having more than one currency in the EU has not undermined the single market. However, attempts to deepen integration in the banking, labour
Blog post
07 October 2015
China’s interest in the Juncker Plan: not so strange after all
China has recently started to express interest in the Juncker plan. There have been rumours that China would like to initially invest between €5 and €
Blog post
06 October 2015
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Should the key losers - China and Europe - join forces?
After five years of struggle, a massive trade pact has been signed among the US, Japan and 10 other economies (mostly in Asia but also Latin America):
Blog post
30 September 2015
Europe’s Capital Markets Union and the new single market challenge
Nicolas Véron comments on the Capital Markets Union Action Plan launched by the European Commission on 30 September 2015.