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State of the Union: Europe's power of attraction by Heather Grabbe, the Wall Street Journal, 24 April 2003

Comment and Analysis: A military plan to cut Europe in two
by Charles Grant and Ulrike Guerot, Financial Times, 17 April 2003

Shaken to the core by Heather Grabbe, Prospect Magazine, May 2003 - France will not be able to create a breakaway “core Europe” but don't expect the east Europeans to become Anglo-Saxon poodles

TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS
 

The United States and Europe after Iraq transcript - public debate on transatlantic relations in association with the Brookings Institution, 3 April 2003

The decline of American power by Charles Grant, CER bulletin, Issue 29, April 2003

War: Who is to blame? by Pierre Hassner, CER bulletin, Issue 29, April 2003

How should Europe respond to the new America? Prospect debate with Charles Grant and François Heisbourg, April 2003



The EU and the Middle-East: a call for action by Steven Everts, January 2003
Steven Everts analyses EU policies on Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the broader question of political and economic reform in the region. He concludes that the EU should become more pro-active and assertive.

Intervention of Javier Solana at the launch of the above working paper, 29 January 2003

ECONOMICS

Does enlargement matter for the EU economy? by Katinka Barysch, 27 March 2003

A pact for stability and growth by Katinka Barysch, policy brief, 19 March 2003



THE LISBON SCORECARD III: The status of economic reform in the enlarging EU
by Alasdair Murray
Three years into the EU's Lisbon economic reform agenda, the EU remains far from meeting its goal of becoming the 'most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010'. This third CER scorecard ranks countries in different areas of reform and highlights the 'heroes' and 'villains' of reform over the last year.
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Speech
by the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the launch of the Lisbon Scorecard III, 10 March 2003

Photo: The Rt Hon Gordon Brown and Charles Grant

CER in the press
The Financial Times
16 April 2003
After Iraq: Europe gripped by self-doubt

According to a report in February by the European Commission, labour markets in eastern Europe are every bit as rigid as those in Germany and France. "They have liberalised their economies to a large degree but they have a strong preference for the European model of social welfare," says Heather Grabbe, in an essay on the old/new split for the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank.

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ESSAY PRIZE WINNER

The Foreign Policy Association, (FPA) and the Richard C. Welden Foundation announced that Charles Grant and Steven Everts are the winners of the $10,000 Essay Competition on the topic of
The U.S. and the EU: Transatlantic Drift or Common Destiny

Press release 4 April 03

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