Hugo Brady, Senior Research Fellow

Hugo Brady joined the CER in May 2005, as a research fellow on EU institutions and justice and home affairs.

Hugo previously worked as a desk officer in the political division of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and as a research associate on the constitutional treaty at the Institute for European Affairs in Dublin. He has also worked as a journalist and sub-editor with the Sunday Business Post, an economic and financial newspaper, and the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ.

He holds a M.Econ.Sc (European Economic and Public Affairs) from University College Dublin and a Diploma in European Law from the Law Society of Ireland. He has a degree in journalism from Dublin City University.

Main areas of expertise: Institutional reform, EU external border policy, immigration and asylum, policing and criminal justice.

CER publications:

• EU JHA co-operation: After Lisbon, reality bites
  (CER insight article, 24 June 2010)
  
  
• Clameronism
  (CER insight article, 21 April 2010)
  
  
• Should Britain leave EU police and justice policy?
  (bulletin article, April/May 2010)
  
  
• Does the EU need a public prosecutor?
  (bulletin article, February/March 2010)
  
  
• The EU must learn from its mistakes over the past decade
  (CER insight article, 23 December 2009)
  
  
• President Lamy?
  (CER insight article, 20 October 2009)
  
  
• Last chance for Lisbon:
  Ireland's EU referendum
  (briefing note, September 2009)
  
  
• Scotland's bid to join the EU
  (bulletin article, August/September 2009)
  
  
• Intelligence, emergencies and
  foreign policy:
  The EU's role in counter-terrorism
  (essay, July 2009)
  
  
• EU politics after the elections
  (CER insight article, 10 June 2009)
  
  
• Why the European elections matter
  (CER insight article,29 May 2009)
  
  
• Towards a better EU migration policy
  (CER insight article, 8 April 2009)
  
  
• Britain's Schengen dilemma
  (CER insight article, 10 February 2009)
  
  
• The Irish send out good vibrations on Lisbon
  (CER insight article, 8 December 2008)
  
  
• How the Irish government might save Lisbon
  (bulletin article, December 2008/January 2009)
  
  
• How a new Irish government might
  save Lisbon
  (CER insight article, 24 October 2008)
  
  
• Beyond banking: What the financial crisis means for the EU
  (policy brief with Katinka Barysch, Charles Grant, Bobo Lo, Clara Marina O'Donnell, Simon Tilford, Tomas Valasek and Philip Whyte, October 2008)
  
  
• Tough choices to avoid euro-paralysis
  (CER insight article, 19 June 2008)
  
  
• Will the Irish guillotine Lisbon?
  (briefing note, 4 June 2008)
  
  
• The new politics of EU internal security
  (CER insight article, 28 March 2008)
  
  
• Applicants sought for new Council president
  (bulletin article, April/May 2008)
  
  
• EU migration policy: An A-Z
  (briefing, February 2008)
  
  
• Bad omens loom over Irish referendum
  (bulletin article, February/March 2008)
  
  
• Should Europol and Eurojust merge?
  (CER insight article, 7 December 2007)
  
  
• The CER guide to the Reform Treaty
  (briefing note with Katinka Barysch,
  October 2007)
  
  
• Yes to a referendum, but not on this treaty
  (bulletin article, October/November 2007)
  
  
• Of mice, men and the language of EU reform
  (CER insight article, 18 July 2007)
  
  
• Hurrah for an end to EU navel gazing
  (briefing note, June 2007)
  
  
• Why treaty change matters for business
  and for Britain
  (policy brief with Charles Grant, May 2007)
  
  
• If Nixon could go to China, Brown can go
  to Brussels
  (CER insight article, 17 May 2007)
  
  
• The EU and the fight against organised
  crime
  (working paper, April 2007)
  
  
• We need a new pro-Europeanism
  (CER insight article, 9 February 2007)
  
  
• Schengen should go west as well as east
  (bulletin article, February/March 2007)
  
  
• The Tories and human trafficking:
  Don't play politics
  (CER insight article, 9 January 2007)
  
  
• Let justice be done:
  Punishing crime in the EU
  (policy brief with Mónica Roma, April 2006)
  
  
• Fighting terrorism: The EU needs a
  strategy not a shopping list
  (briefing note with Daniel Keohane,
  October 2005)
  
  
• An avant-garde for internal security
  (bulletin article, October/November 2005)
  
  
• European Court ruling: comment
  (comment piece, September 2005)
  
  
• The June European Council:
  Fear and loathing in Brussels?
  (briefing note, June 2005)