Publications

  • How the EU can help Russia
    How the EU can help Russia
    Report by David Gowan
    05 January 2001

    Russia's President Vladimir Putin is starting to take the EU seriously, as an entity in its own right. But many Russians feel ambiguous about the EU's development, particularly its enlargement into Eastern Europe.
  • Economic policy co-ordination in the eurozone
    Economic policy co-ordination in the eurozone: What has been achieved? What should be done?
    Essay by Pierre Jacquet and Jean Pisani-Ferry
    05 January 2001

    Now that the euro has stabilised, Greece has joined EMU and the EU has committed itself to enlargement, the time is right to consider these critical issues of economic governance.
  • Europe must learn to work with Bush
    Europe must learn to work with Bush
    Policy brief by Steven Everts
    01 December 2000

    Europeans will react with a mixture of scepticism and hope to George W. Bush’s victory in this year’s cliffhanger elections. The vast majority of European policy-makers expect US diplomacy to become somewhat more adversarial in style and Eurosceptic in substance.

  • Bulletin issue 21
    Issue 21 December/January 2001
    24 November 2000
  • Opening the US defence market
    Opening the US defence market
    Working paper by Alex Ashourne
    03 November 2000

    Many European defence companies aspire to gain access to the US defence market. America has the largest defence budget in the world – some $280 billion, or 3.3 per cent of GDP in 2000 – and is the source of much of the world's most advanced defence technology.
  • How flexible should Europe be?
    How flexible should Europe be?
    Working paper by Ben Hall
    06 October 2000

    A European Union (EU) of 26 or more member-states will certainly be far more diverse – in economic, social, cultural and political terms – than the current one. Few people would argue that a monolithic, homogenous Union is what Europe needs.
  • Bulletin issue 14
    Issue 14 October/November 2000
    29 September 2000
  • The EU and world trade
    The EU and world trade
    Report by Richard Cunningham, Peter Lichtenbaum, Julie Wolf
    08 September 2000

    The paradox of trade policy is that, at a time when political leaders in most parts of the world have accepted the intellectual case for trade liberalisation more thoroughly than ever before, public opposition to free trade is on the rise.