Opinion pieces

  • How Gordon sees the world, by Mark Leonard
    The Spectator, 26 August 2006

    Imagine the scene. It is 2007. The pale November sun is slowly melting the frosted roofs of Camp David. A throng of journalists — bristling with cameras, arc lamps and microphones — jostle for position around two podiums.

  • At last, some hope for Ukraine, by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 04 August 2006

    The formation of a new government - four months after parliamentary elections - is good news for Ukraine. The coalition is broad-based: the party of President Victor Yushchenko, Our Ukraine, has strong roots in the rural west of the country; the Regions party, led by the new prime minister, Victor Yanukovich, dominates the east; and the Socialist party, the third member of the coalition, is popular among farmers in the centre.

  • Organised crime and punishment?, by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 07 July 2006

    Open borders and new technologies have turned Europe into a land of opportunity for criminal gangs. Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform asks whether the EU is up to the challenge.

  • Adieu, Europe?, by
    Open democracy, 29 June 2006

    The machinery of the European Union has recovered from the shock of the failed French and Dutch referenda, but not the heart that pumps it, says Aurore Wanlin.

  • Europe's crime without frontiers, by Hugo Brady
    The Yorkshire Post, 21 June 2006

    Europol, the European Union's police office, has warned governments of a clear and present threat from transnational gangs trafficking in arms, drugs and people; as well as running counterfeiting and money-laundering rackets.

  • Europe challenges organised crime, by Hugo Brady
    G4S International, 02 June 2006

    A new Europol threat assessment will focus efforts to tackle rising gang crime in the EU, writes Hugo Brady of the Centre for European reform.

  • Sluggish EU 'Lisbon Agenda' bodes ill for modernisation, by Aurore Wanlin
    European Affairs, 01 June 2006

    Europe has gotten off to a bad start in 2006 with a fresh battering of the 'Lisbon agenda.' Protectionism is on the rise across the European Union.

  • What new transatlantic institutions?, by Charles Grant
    European Affairs, 01 June 2006

    The last two years have seen a rapprochement across the Atlantic. The elevation of new personnel – such as Condoleezza Rice to the State Department and Angela Merkel as German Chancellor – has helped to remove some of the bitterness that the Iraq confrontation had left behind.