Opinion pieces

  • Hollande, los Alemanes y la union politica , by Charles Grant
    Foreign Policy - En espanol, 16 October 2012

    Antes de convertirse en presidente de Francia, François Hollande no parecía estar muy interesado en la UE. Sin embargo, en su juventud fue un protegido de Jacques Delors, el gran europeo de la izquierda francesa, y su instinto es, en términos generales, europeísta.

  • My state of the Union, by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 05 October 2012

    President Barroso's team recently asked me to contribute to September's State of the EU speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. I thought the final product was rather good.

  • Après Merkozy, by Charles Grant
    The International Herald Tribune, 03 October 2012

    Before becoming president of France, François Hollande did not appear to take much interest in the European Union.

  • Europe needs service-market liberalisation, by John Springford
    The Wall Street Journal, 20 September 2012

    In exchange for sharing southern Europe's debt burden, Germany is demanding liberal economic reforms in those countries. Yet Germany is not following its own advice.

  • As doubts grow about a BAE-EADS merger, could it prove a danger to national interests?, by Tomas Valasek, Ben Wallace
    City A.M, 19 September 2012

    The fear that the merger might pose a threat to national security is without foundation. How? Would the German or French bits of the company withhold supplies to the UK armed forces on political grounds?

  • Peut-on croire Draghi?, by Simon Tilford
    Les Echos, 05 September 2012

    LE CERCLE. Mario Draghi, le président de la Banque Centrale Européenne, a affirmé à plusieurs reprises que la BCE ferait tout ce qui est nécessaire pour sauver l'euro.

  • Can Draghi be believed?, by Simon Tilford
    Project Syndicate, 03 September 2012

    LONDON – Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, has repeatedly claimed that the ECB will do everything necessary to save the euro.

  • Prospects for deeper Visegrád defence collaboration, by Tomas Valasek
    CEPA, 01 August 2012

    The May NATO Summit in Chicago ended with a call on member states to spend their money on the right priorities, to seek economies of scale in collaboration and to start specializing instead of duplicating each other's efforts.