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  • Division and indecision over Syria
    Insight by Rem Korteweg, 18 September 2013
    Division and indecision over Syria
  • The future of Europe's economy: Disaster or deliverance?
    Report by Paul De Grauwe, George Magnus, Thomas Mayer, Holger Schmieding, 18 September 2013
    The future of Europe's economy: Disaster or deliverance?
  • Continuity and change in Germany's EU policy
    Insight by Charles Grant, 06 September 2013
    Continuity and change Germany's EU policy

Insights

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    Race to the bottom
    Insight by Tomas Valasek
    24 August 2011

    For decades, European countries cut defence budgets with little worry. The United States kept enough troops on the continent to deter all potential enemies, almost irrespective of how small European militaries became.

  • Eurozone crisis: Can contagion to Italy be arrested?
    Eurozone crisis: Can contagion to Italy be arrested?
    Insight by Philip Whyte
    05 August 2011

    The eurozone's debt crisis has spread to Italy. It is becoming increasingly doubtful that much-needed domestic economic reforms will be sufficient to restore market confidence in the country.
  • Why the eurozone needs debt mutualisation
    Insight by Simon Tilford
    28 July 2011

    The attempt to run a common monetary policy without a common treasury has failed. Debt mutualisation is necessary if the eurozone is to survive.
  • Marine Le Pen and the rise of populism
    Marine Le Pen and the rise of populism
    Insight by Charles Grant
    20 July 2011

    Marine Le Pen's anti-EU populism resonates in much of northern Europe. Debating the CER's director, Charles Grant, she claimed she was neither left nor right.
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    The new EU budget: A missed opportunity
    Insight by Stephen Tindale
    11 July 2011

    The Commission's proposals for the EU's 2014-2020 budgets are a missed opportunity, representing no substantial change. Spending on agriculture should be greatly reduced, that on cohesion re-focused and that on climate greatly increased.

  • Financial regulation
    Financial regulation: Britain the perennial outlier?
    Insight by Philip Whyte
    20 June 2011

    Back in 2007, when the Labour government had abolished the business cycle and the City of London was booming, British policy-makers liked to vaunt the merits of ‘light touch’ regulation.
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    EU ministers tackle defence austerity
    Insight by Tomas Valasek
    01 June 2011

    How do you do more with less? The EU defence ministers agreed last week that the way to limit the impact of the economic crisis on their defence budgets lies in more co-operation.

  • Financial regulation: Will British euroscepticism collide with European populism
    Financial regulation: Will British euroscepticism collide with European populism?
    Insight by Philip Whyte
    21 May 2011

    When EU finance ministers met in Brussels on 18 May, many observers expected sparks to fly. The reason? This was the first EU meeting that Britain’s newly-elected government would attend.