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March 29, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on March 29, 2017
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Challenges for a Global Britain Outside the European Union – Migration, Trade and Finance

Today, March 29th 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May officially triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, thereby beginning the formal process of withdrawing the United Kingdom from the European Union.
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March 1, 2017
Published by IEA on March 1, 2017
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Cheap as Chips: is a Healthy Diet Affordable?

It is widely believed that healthy eating is relatively expensive whereas ‘junk food’ is relatively cheap. This has led to an assumption that poor diets and obesity are directly caused by economic deprivation.
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March 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on March 1, 2017
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A Few Points on Europe’s Desperate Need for a Capital Markets Union

Since the European Commission’s Action Plan on Building a Capital Markets Union in 2015, strengthening and integrating capital markets across the Union has been one of the EU’s main priorities and one of the central pillars of the Investment Plan for Europe (informally known as the Juncker Plan).
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January 1, 2017
Published by IEA on January 1, 2017
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Obesity and the Public Purse

This is the first study to estimate the annual savings that overweight and obese people bring UK taxpayers by dying prematurely (in 2016 prices). Ignoring these savings leads to substantial overestimation of the true burden of elevated body mass index (BMI) to the taxpayer.
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December 14, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on December 14, 2016
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Personal Pensions in the European Union

The development of personal pensions at the national and cross-border levels is hindered by high compulsory payments to public pension funds, restrictions on the participation of the self-employed and the unemployed, rules governing access to retirement savings, taxation of retirement income and other national legal requirements.
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November 17, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on November 17, 2016
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How Could the World’s Biggest Exporter Oppose Freer Trade?

On September 17th, more than 100,000 people took to the streets of several German cities to protest against both the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the draft free trade deal between the EU and the United States, and its Canadian equivalent the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which is slated to become law pending European Parliament ratification.
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October 24, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on October 24, 2016
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Ploughing the Wrong Furrow

The precautionary principle provides non-farming interest groups with a pseudo-official means of influencing policy. The result is a drift towards overregulation and regulatory failures which are in conflict with the efficient working of the single market.
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