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Europe's External Action Service: Ten steps towards a credible EU foreign policy

Policy brief by Edward Burke
04 July 2012

The EU's new diplomatic service has been widely criticised. Although the EEAS has achieved more than many acknowledge, it can still do a lot better.
The implications of military spending cuts for NATO's largest members

Report by Andrew Dorman, Bastian Giegerich, Camille Grand, Adam Grissom, Christian Mölling, Clara Marina O'Donnell
01 July 2012

There have long been debates about the sustainability of the transatlantic alliance and accusations amongst allies of unequal contributions to burden-sharing.
Saving emissions trading from irrelevance

Policy brief by Stephen Tindale
29 June 2012

The Emissions Trading System must be overhauled. The cap should be lowered, and combined with a price floor and ceiling and border tax adjustments.
Needed: A Franco-German concordat

Insight by Charles Grant
27 June 2012

The euro needs a Franco-German bargain: Germany must swallow eurobonds and a banking union, while France must let the EU have a say on its budget.
Germany's own goal: Why Berlin's sense of invulnerability will be its undoing

Insight by Simon Tilford
22 June 2012

Germany’s strategy for dealing with the euro crisis is maximising, not minimising, risks to the country’s economic and political interests.
Britain must defend the single market

Essay by Jo Johnson MP
22 June 2012

A Conservative MP argues that the single market will flounder if the UK is marginalised inside the EU – or if the UK leaves altogether.
The EU must fight corruption and defend the rule of law

Insight by Hugo Brady
14 June 2012

Policy-makers in Brussels worry increasingly about corruption, national mal-administration and the rule of law in the EU. New thinking is needed to address such concerns.
Japan's response to China's rise

Policy brief by Charles Grant
13 June 2012

Japan fears China's growing strength and increasingly assertive foreign policy. Japan has responded by strengthening alliances with the US and other maritime powers.