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Europe's defence industry: A transatlantic future

Report by Gordon Adams, Alex Ashbourne, Luc Boureau, Bruce Clark, Chris Crane, Keith Hayward, Theresa Hitchens, Robbin Laird, Denis Verret and Stephan von Henneberg, Charles Grant
02 July 1999

In December 1998 Europe's first major cross-border defence industry merger was imminent: a deal between British Aerospace (BAe) and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) had been agreed and all but signed and sealed.
European defence post-Kosovo

Working paper by Charles Grant
04 June 1999

European Union has long talked about building a defence capability, but done very little about it. In the first week of June 1999, however, two events gave a boost to the EU’s military aspirations. At the Cologne summit EU leaders agreed on a scheme that would enable the EU to deploy military force.
Issue 6 June/July 1999

28 May 1999
The EU needs defence convergence criteria
External author(s): François Heisbourg
A mandate for convergence
External author(s): Kitty Ussher
What next for Kosovo?
External author(s): Michael Maclay
Why Europe needs a constitution
External author(s): Andrew Marr
Will EMU lead to a European economic government?

Report by David Currie, Alan Donnelly, Heiner Flassbeck, Ben Hall, Jean Lemierre, Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, Nigel Wicks
07 May 1999

Both proponents and opponents of economic and monetary union (EMU) have always viewed it as an engine of further European integration and as another milestone on the road to an ill-defined 'political union'.
Name the day: The business case for joining the euro

Essay by Colin Sharman
02 April 1999

Tony Blair's presentation to the House of Commons of a national changeover plan for the adoption of the euro, last February, will come to be seen as a defining moment in Britain's path towards economic and monetary union (EMU).
Scotland Europa: Independence in Europe?

Working paper by Matthew Happold
02 April 1999

There is a question mark over the future of the nation-state in Europe. National monetary sovereignty has been transferred to the European level in most EU states.
Issue 5 April/May 1999

26 March 1999
Europe's emerging political union
By Charles Grant
The danger of centralisation
External author(s): Ben Hall
Europe's wake up call
External author(s): Steven Everts
Russia in Europe

Report by Rodric Braithwaite
05 February 1999

Russia is a European country, though a very peculiar one. Russia is also in deep crisis. But the situation in Russia is never as bad or as good as it seems.