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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

Thorium: How to save Europe's nuclear revival

Policy brief by Stephen Tindale
15 June 2011

The EU should continue to support nuclear power. Existing technologies should generally be used. But thorium liquid fuel reactors – which cannot melt down – should be an exception.
Carbon capture and storage: EU advancing, but not fast enough

Report by Stephen Tindale
03 June 2011

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an essential low-carbon bridge technology, to be used in the several decades it will take before Europe can be totally reliant on renewable energy.
Trio leadership: The need to liberalise the European defence market

Report by Clara Marina O'Donnell
03 June 2011

Over the last year, renewed defence spending cuts in many EU member-states have increased the need for closer EU defence co-operation. European governments have long acknowledged that significant savings could be gained through more common procurement in defence, joint logistics and common ownership of the most expensive military capabilities.
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.
Issue 78 June/July 2011

27 May 2011
Eurozone debt crisis: To restructure or not?
By Philip Whyte
The politics of European justice
By Hugo Brady
Palestinian reconciliation is an opportunity for peace
By Clara Marina O'Donnell
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.
Press freedom – the new accession criterion?

Insight by Katinka Barysch
16 May 2011

Countries that want to join the EU need to show that their democracies work well. However, press freedom – a key ingredient of any pluralist democracy – is under threat in most of the countries that are now queuing for accession.
Debt restructuring will not end the euro crisis

Insight by Simon Tilford
09 May 2011

Even as the ink is still drying on Portugal’s EU/IMF ‘bail-out’ agreement, it is becoming clear that Greece’s 2010 bail-out has failed to improve the sustainability of its public finances.