The EU’s corruption problem
Almost three quarters of businesses in EU member states report widespread corruption, yet the issue has received little policy attention to date. [...]
Business Spectator
Business Spectator was a business news site dedicated to offering readers the most up-to-date market news along with insightful commentary from some of Australia’s most respected journalists. It was integrated into The Australian newspaper in April 2016.
A banking union to pool all risks
It could take a while until European leaders recognise that the answer to the failings of European integration does not always have to be even more integration. [...]
Stern words from banking’s anti-banker
John Cryan is already making clear that under his leadership, Deutsche Bank will make a break with its immediate past - or indeed, reconnect with its history. [...]
A fatal threat to the European project
The Paris terror attacks are not just a terrible tragedy for those killed or injured and their families. Last weekend’s events have severe political, strategic and economic implications, which could haunt France and the entire EU for years to come. [...]
Why policymakers should watch the Swiss
If our politicians were looking for a radically different way of delivering good government, they could do much worse than watch the Swiss. [...]
It’s the end of the EU as we knew it
It is indeed the end of the EU as we knew it. Britain out, Turkey in and Greece debt free: who would have thought what seismic shifts the refugee crisis could trigger in the EU’s power play? [...]
The growing cost of Europe’s welfare trap
The challenge for Europe’s societies is to ensure that those migrants coming in will not remain welfare-dependent forever but find a way into productive society quickly. On that front, unfortunately, there is just not much reason for optimism. [...]
The migrant crisis threatens to topple Merkel
What would have been unthinkable even a few months ago now looks like a plausible scenario: Merkel’s chancellorship may be drawing to a close sooner than anyone imagined. And she would leave her country with a burden instead of a positive legacy. [...]
Britain’s localist revolution
George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered nothing short of a revolution to the way that Britain is governed. A radical devolution of power and money from central government in London to the cities of the UK has begun. [...]
The opposite of Greece
The result of the Portuguese election suggests tough reforms and fiscal austerity can eventually pay off - politically and economically. [...]