Simon Tilford
Simon Tilford is Deputy Director at the Center for European Reform.
After eight consecutive quarters of economic expansion, Spain has become the eurozone’s latest poster child for austerity and structural reforms. But the country's recovery is not quite what it seems,… read more
European officials take it for granted that the IMF should support the eurozone, as if the rest of the world had some kind of duty to do so. It does not, and it should not allow the eurozone to extort… read more
The eurozone’s institutional weaknesses have been laid bare. The attempt to run a common monetary policy without a common treasury has failed. Investors do not know what they are buying when they purc… read more
European policymakers are obsessed with national “competitiveness,” and genuinely appear to think that prosperity is synonymous with trade surpluses. But economic growth, even in traditionally export-… read more
Hillary Clinton faces an election that has come to revolve around the legitimacy of a political establishment that she epitomizes. And no issue has fueled that challenge – in the US and Europe alike –… read more
