Why has the EU been so slow to roll out a Covid vaccination programme?
This opinion piece was originally published on El País and the Guardian and Süddeutsche Zeitung Europe was not prepared for the pandemic, but it must now learn lessons and use all its financial and political resources. F...
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What future for Europe?
The Commission’s White Paper on the future of the EU sets out five scenarios, but misses some of the fundamental questions facing Europe. How should the EU interact with its neighbourhood? How can we manage the ten...
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The difficulties of defining EU-UK economic relations
This op-ed was originally published in El Economista, Manager Magazin, Nikkei Veritas, Nikkei Asian Review, and O Globo. Negotiations on the UK’s exit from the EU have not yet begun, but the UK leadership needs to ...
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Berlin and Paris need a strategy for Brexit
Which political strategy should the EU and its biggest two members, France and Germany, pursue if the UK were to leave? This op-ed was originally published in Bruegel, International Business Times, Kathimerini, and Diari...
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The three dangers of Brexit
This op-ed was originally published in Bruegel, Nikkei, Nikkei Asian Review, Manager Magazin, Finance, Sina and Naftemporiki. It will also appear in Gazeta Prawna, Público and Hospodarske Noviny. As the June 23 U.K. ref...
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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. This op-ed has also been published on Bruegel, in Kathimerini, Público, Die Zeit, Finans, Nikkei V...
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UK and the EU: Financially better off in or out
I participated in this France24 talkshow (in English)...
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