May 2014
“Productivity growth is the key to returning to a sustainable growth path in Europe.” So writes Bart van Ark, author of Productivity and Digitalisation in Europe: Paving the Road to Faster Growth,…
Publications
May 2014
Is the euro crisis really over? Find out in The Euro Plus Monitor Spring 2014 Update, the latest instalment of the bi-annual competitiveness ranking published by Berenberg and the Lisbon Council.…
April 2014
The Lisbon Council and Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), a leading Washington, DC-based think tank, jointly launch Bridging the Data Gap: How Digital Innovation Can Drive Growth and Create Jobs. The interactive policy…
March 2014
Text and Data Mining – a sophisticated technique in which advanced data analytics are used to discern previously unseen patterns in texts and other data sets – is quickly being…
March 2014
In 2013-2014, 16 students from the College of Europe were competitively selected to take part in a project on state transformation. They were divided into four teams of four students.…
December 2013
In October 2013, the Lisbon Council celebrated 10 years of work at the forefront of the European project. We took the occasion to produce a brief – and hopefully interesting,…
December 2013
Chief Economist Alessandro Leipold analyses a key challenge of Europe’s proposed “banking union” — ensuring that its governance delivers swift, efficient and orderly bank resolution — and advocates streamlining the…
December 2013
If the eurozone and its 17 members stay the course, the systemic crisis that has rocked Europe since 2010 could be largely over by mid-2014. That is the principal conclusion…
October 2013
After successfully launching Poland on two decades of sustained economic growth, Leszek Balcerowicz, professor at the Warsaw School of Economics, examines the state of the euro zone and the European…
October 2013
On the eve of the October European Council devoted to innovation and the digital agenda, the Lisbon Council, and Nesta, Europe’s leading innovation foundation, teamed up to launch Plan I(nnovation)…
July 2013
Alessandro Leipold, chief economist of the Lisbon Council, offers an up-to-the-minute analysis of the principal achievements and conclusions of the 27-28 June European Council. Mr. Leipold discusses the decisions taken…
June 2013
On the eve of the 27-28 June European Council, Chief Economist Alessandro Leipold weighs in on the key issues facing European policymakers as they meet to tackle youth unemployment, access…