Publications

  • The EU must learn from its mistakes over the past decade
    The EU must learn from its mistakes over the past decade
    Insight by Hugo Brady
    23 December 2009

    The EU needs new thinking. After eight years of stop-start negotiations, the Union finally has a new rulebook, the Lisbon treaty, which entered into force earlier this month. The member-states are waiting for a new European Commission and a new European Council president to take office early next year.
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    Gazprom’s uncertain outlook
    Insight by Katinka Barysch
    18 December 2009

    Many people in the EU tend to see Gazprom as a mighty giant that uses energy as a political tool on behalf of the Kremlin. They say that Russia has leverage because it controls 40 per cent of the EU’s gas imports.
  • Financial crisis
    Rocky road back to growth
    Insight by Charles Grant
    14 December 2009

    There is no doubt that governments had to take exceptional steps in response to the financial crisis. Without such unprecedented action, many economies would have slipped into slump and probably deflation.
  • Cameron's Europe
    Cameron's Europe: Can the Conservatives achieve their EU objectives?
    Essay by Charles Grant
    01 December 2009

    David Cameron, the leader of Britain's Conservatives and perhaps its next prime minister, has unveiled a new strategy for the European Union.

  • Bulletin issue 69
    Issue 69 December/January 2009
    27 November 2009
  • Last hooray for the EU on Iran?
    Last hooray for the EU on Iran?
    Insight by Tomas Valasek
    25 November 2009

    When the EU's first 'foreign minister', Cathy Ashton, starts work on December 1st, she will find Iran on top of her 'to do' pile. Earlier this week, Tehran turned down a proposal from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that would have seen a large part of the country's stock of uranium moved out of the country for further enrichment.
  • What Eastern Europe can learn from the crisis
    What Eastern Europe can learn from the crisis
    Insight by Katinka Barysch
    11 November 2009

    It is 20 years since the Berlin Wall crumbled and political and economic freedom started spreading through Eastern Europe. Today, however, the region is mired in deep recession.
  • NATO, Russia and European security
    NATO, Russia and European security
    Working paper by Tomas Valasek
    06 November 2009

    Countries in Europe's east and north worry that Moscow is blundering into a confrontation with NATO. They have begun demanding that the alliance start preparing for a possible conflict. But are they right to be concerned?