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Europe's economy German EU policy Vote on Syria

The future of Europe's economy: Disaster or deliverance?
Report by Paul De Grauwe, George Magnus, Thomas Mayer, Holger Schmieding, 18 September 2013
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

Britain, Ireland and Schengen: Time for a smarter bargain on visas

Essay by Michael Emerson
28 July 2011

Travellers to the Schengen area – the EU's passport-free travel zone – can move freely between most EU countries but need separate visas for Britain and Ireland, which maintain their own border controls.
Issue 79 August/September 2011

22 July 2011
Was the euro summit a game changer?
By Philip Whyte
Europe's date with destiny
By Hugo Brady
Britain draws the wrong lessons from Libya
By Clara Marina O'Donnell
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.
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.
Repowering communities: Small-scale solutions to large-scale energy problems Energy policy is at a crossroads

Report by Prashant Vaze , Stephen Tindale
11 July 2011

Attempts to meet targets for carbon emissions, energy security and affordable energy for vulnerable households are all on a trajectory to failure.
Innovation: How Europe can take off

Report by Esko Aho, Jim Attridge, Amar Bhidé, Albert Bravo-Biosca, Nicholas Crafts, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Malcolm Harbour, John Kay, Helga Nowotny, Andreas Schleicher, Michael Schrage and David Willetts., Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford
08 July 2011

Every EU government supports innovation, believing that it will help Europe to meet the numerous economic, social and environmental challenges that it faces.
Germany's brief moment in the sun

Essay by Simon Tilford
27 June 2011

Four years ago, Germany was widely seen as the sick man of Europe, beset by weak economic growth, a fast-ageing population and a pervasive sense of angst about the future.
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.