Opinion pieces

  • Europe: the new superpower, by Mark Leonard
    The Irish Times, 18 February 2005

    The world that emerges in this century will not be centred on the US or the UN, but will comprise a community of regional clubs led by the Europeans, writes Mark Leonard in London.

  • Get your coat Mr Blair – you've just been asked to leave the EU, by Charles Grant
    European Voice, 17 February 2005

    There are a host of ifs and buts. But the UK might, just might, be asked to leave the European Union if British voters reject the constitution, warns Charles Grant What if current opinion polls are a good guide to voting intentions in the ten member states that will hold referenda on the EU’s constitutional treaty?

  • A concrete strategy for mending fences, by Charles Grant
    International Herald Tribune, 17 February 2005

    For the past several years, the conventional wisdom has been that the United States and Europe have grown apart, that the end of the cold war and 9/11 have produced a strategic divergence that is impossible to overcome.

  • Tangerine dream, by Mark Leonard
    Financial Times, 12 February 2005

    The man I went to see in Cairo is now in prison. I had seen Ayman Nur, the leader of Al- Ghad (The Party of Tomorrow), in the pride of his growing fame and success: at the peak of the growth of a movement which he created and which attracts some of the brightest spirits in Egypt; in his home, amid the clutter of his wealth and in the company of a wife who is also a partner in his work.

  • Turquie-Europe : les dix règles d’or, by Charles Grant
    Les Echos, 13 December 2004

    L’engagement des négociations en vue de l’adhésion de la Turquie sera un test majeur pour les ambitions européennes en matière de politique étrangère.

  • Space-age spending holds key to EU's destiny, by Daniel Keohane
    European Voice, 28 October 2004

    If Europe wants to become a 21st century global power, it must reach for the stars. In other words, European governments should invest more in satellites and other space-based technologies to boost local high-tech industries, monitor the environment and help to manage military operations.  

  • How China is wooing the world, by Mark Leonard
    The Guardian, 11 September 2004

    In my local curry house I was greeted like a long-lost friend. A huddle of young waiters gesticulated excitedly towards me. Eventually I realised they were pointing at my bag, picked up during a recent trip to China, and emblazoned with the Chinese script for Shanghai.

  • Why Tony needs help from a Tory , by Mark Leonard
    New Statesman, 09 September 2004

    Each man kills the thing he loves - and so it could be with Tony Blair and Europe. For ten years the Prime Minister has promised to "settle" Britain's ambivalent relationship with the EU.