The future of EU trade policy

The European Commission has just launched a public consultation on the future direction of EU trade policy. This VoxEU debate, moderated by Richard Baldwin, launches an online discussion of the Commission's proposals.


The first column, by DG Trade's Chief Economist, presents the key elements of the new policy.


The Global Crisis

VoxEU.org partnered with the UK government to collect the views of economists from around the world on what should be done to fix the global economy. The analysis and proposals that appeared in the "Global Crisis Debate" fed directly into the UK's preparation for the London summit of world leaders in April 2010. This debate was featured on the UK government's own web site. The debate has six themes:

Macroeconomics, moderated by Philip Lane and featuring lead commentaries that include:
Financial rescue and regulation, moderated by Luigi Zingales and featuring lead commentaries that include:
Open markets, moderated by Richard Baldwin and featuring lead commentaries that include:
 

Latest Commentaries

  

Managing macroeconomic risks and protecting the vulnerable (Development and the crisis)

Anis Chowdhury (The University of Western Sydney, Australia), 15 August 2010

Managing macroeconomic risks and protecting the vulnerable   Iyanatul Islam and Anis Chowdhury[1]     The manner in which the Great Recession caught most macroeconomists by surprise highlights in a...

The fallacy of austerity-based fiscal consolidation (Development and the crisis)

Anis Chowdhury (The University of Western Sydney, Australia), 2 August 2010

The fallacy of austerity-based fiscal consolidation   Anis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam[1]   With the Greek tragedy, fiscal consolidation seems to be the cry of the day, at least...

A FIT Proposal - Financial Instrument Taxes (Development and the crisis)

Sony Kapoor (www.re-define.org, Re-Define), 28 June 2010

A FIT proposal The world has woken up to an urgent fiscal challenge. Budget cuts will soon start to bite at home in Europe, while funding...

The Risks of a Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe Are Bigger Than You Think (Open markets)

Michael Pomerleano (The World Bank ), 24 June 2010

  This article points out that the eight newest members of the European Union (EU) (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania)...

G8 and G20 Toronto Discussion Paper, June 2010: Economic Models and Towards the Highest Values in Human Civilization, by Dr Mark Fernando (Development and the crisis)

Dr Mark Fernando (Humanitarian Healthcare), 23 June 2010

G8 and G20 Toronto Discussion Paper, June 2010: Economic Models and Towards the Highest Values in Human Civilization.   The economic model that undergirds the macroeconomic structure of...

Impose the higher bank capital requirements on what has the best credit ratings. (Development and the crisis)

Per Kurowski (The Voice and Noise Foundation and Petropolitan A.C.), 23 June 2010

There can be no doubt that capital, in general, is risk-adverse, which creates considerable bias in favor of anything that is perceived as having a...

Fiscal consolidation, growth and employment: what do we know? (Development and the crisis)

Anis Chowdhury (The University of Western Sydney, Australia), 21 June 2010

Fiscal consolidation, growth and employment: what do we know?   Iyanatul Islam and Anis Chowdhury[1]   Introduction   The Great Recession of 2008-2009 triggered the enactment of expansionary policies in both...

Should regulators have the right to decide on their own what risks should be considered? (Development and the crisis)

Per Kurowski (The Voice and Noise Foundation and Petropolitan A.C.), 15 June 2010

Human and economic development includes an incredible number of different risks of different nature and most perhaps not even known to us. In such circumstances...

Rethinking Macroeconomics from the perspective of the Millennium Development Goals in the Post-Crisis Era (Development and the crisis)

Anis Chowdhury (The University of Western Sydney, Australia), 7 June 2010

  Rethinking Macroeconomics from the perspective of the Millennium Development Goals in the Post-Crisis Era   Anis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam [1]     The triple crises – the financial crisis...

Rethinking Macroeconomics from the perspective of the Millennium Development Goals in the Post-Crisis Era (Development and the crisis)

Anis Chowdhury (The University of Western Sydney, Australia), 7 June 2010