When it comes to EU top jobs, if you snooze you lose, as Gordon Brown discovered to his cost in 2009In a new briefing published this morning we argue that after the row over Jean-Claude Juncker’s appointment, David Cameron can regain the initiative b…
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March 4, 2010
A BBC documentary has revealed that Londoners will not benefit from a “pre-sale” of tickets for the Olympic games thanks to EU competition law, which prevents discrimination in favour of the host country. Despite having swallowed the increases on their…
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February 19, 2010
A leader in this week’s Economist looks at one of the areas where the EU is rarely criticised: its competition policy.EU Competition policy can broadly be divided into two main areas.The first area deals with state aid – it is the job of the EU to prev…
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