The CER's activities include:

• Publishing pamphlets, essays, working papers, policy briefs, briefing notes, opinion papers and the CER bulletin.
  
  
• Organising seminars, conferences and meetings with high-profile speakers, such as:
  
  Bertie Ahern, Giuliano Amato, Ed Balls, José Manuel Barroso, Carl Bildt, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Nick Burns, Liam Byrne, Menzies Campbell, Vladimir Chishov, Charles Clarke, Ken Clarke, Jacques Delors, Joschka Fischer, Abdullah Gül, Steve Hadley, William Hague, Geoff Hoon, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer,
  Danuta Hübner, John Hutton, Alan Johnson, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Konstantin Kosachev, Neelie Kroes, Peter Mandelson, Charlie McCreevy, David Miliband, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Chris Patten, Otto Schily, Radek Sikorski, Mehmet Simset, Javier Solana, Jack Straw, Jean-Claude Trichet, Günter Verheugen, Alexander Vondra, Margot Wallström and Li Zhoaxing.
  
  
• Providing advice to governments in several European countries, as well as to EU institutions.

The Centre is a non-profit making company, limited by guarantee. The CER's work is funded by donations from the private sector. It has never received core funding from governments or EU institutions.