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German EU policy Vote on Syria The EU & Egypt

Continuity and change in Germany's EU policy
Insight by Charles Grant, 06 September 2013
The Commons vote on Syria: The world turned upside down
Insight by Ian Bond, 04 September 2013
Europe's struggle for influence in Egypt
Insight by Rem Korteweg, 23 August 2013

Turkey’s Twitter generation is its European future

Insight by Heather Grabbe
19 June 2013

The protests in Turkey show Erdogan's leadership style is at odds with the more pluralist and modern society that his government's EU-inspired reforms have fostered.
Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?

Insight by Charles Grant
10 June 2013

The euro crisis has hit the EU's legitimacy. Part of the answer is to give national parliamentarians a bigger role in the EU.
The CER commission on the UK and the single market

Insight by John Springford
07 June 2013

The CER's commission was launched this week. Policy experts, economists and business people will examine the economic case for and against EU membership.
Tilting at European windmills

Insight by Katinka Barysch
29 May 2013

Britain's debate about the costs and benefits of EU membership is welcome and overdue. It should be based on informed analysis, not scary sound bites.
A dose of inflation would help the eurozone medicine go down

Insight by Simon Tilford
16 May 2013

Eurozone policy-makers are complacent about the risks of low inflation. If the euro is to survive, inflation will need to rise significantly, especially in Germany.
Commission should move to structural reform of the ETS

Insight by Stephen Tindale
09 May 2013

The EU should set an ETS price floor, to attract investment to low-carbon options. The Commission should propose this without further delay.
NATO and the costs of star wars

Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell
01 May 2013

Europeans should convince the US to scale back its missile defences ambitions. American defences do not work. They are also creating unnecessary tensions with Russia.
European austerity: Turn or TINA?

Insight by Simon Tilford
25 April 2013

Despite the overwhelming weight of evidence, both empirical and theoretical, many policy-makers will continue to trot out Margaret Thatcher's favourite line: there is no alternative.