Publications

  • The Lisbon scorecard IX: How to emerge from the wreckage
    The Lisbon scorecard IX: How to emerge from the wreckage
    13 February 2009

    EU governments are taking increasingly unorthodox measures to prevent the economic crisis from overwhelming their economies. They are right to intervene, but their policies must not undermine Europe's long-term economic growth prospects in the process.

  • Britain's Schengen dilemma
    Britain's Schengen dilemma
    Insight by Hugo Brady
    10 February 2009

    Britain supports more EU co-operation against terrorism, crime and illegal immigration and has done so for over a decade. This is because effective justice co-operation has clearly been in the national interest (as with the speedy capture and extradition of one of the 2005 London bombers from Italy to Britain).
  • New Europe and the economic crisis
    New Europe and the economic crisis
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch
    02 February 2009

    The EU's new member-states have been hit hard by the credit crunch and collapsing export markets. The Central and East Europeans sense that their post-Cold War growth model – consisting of liberalisation and EU integration – is broken.

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    Issue 64 February/March 2009
    30 January 2009
  • The French, the European Commission and the Tories
    The French, the European Commission and the Tories
    Insight by Charles Grant
    29 January 2009

    One Frenchman, Jean Monnet, invented the European Commission, and another, Jacques Delors, was its greatest president. Yet the French are increasingly hostile to this Brussels institution.
  • After the gas conflict
    After the gas conflict
    Insight by Katinka Barysch
    23 January 2009

    On January 20th, Russian gas started flowing again through Ukraine, after a two-week shut-down that had left people in South East Europe freezing and factories idle. The relief across Europe was palpable but the confusion about what happened is still there.
  • Gaza, Europe and empty gestures
    Gaza, Europe and empty gestures
    08 January 2009

    'We're fed up with empty gestures', the Israeli prime minister told a high level delegation from the EU. Several foreign ministers and EU officials had come to the Middle East to try to help end the war raging in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, which has killed over 700 Palestinians and 10 Israelis in the twelve days since it started.
  • Just another gas crisis?
    Just another gas crisis?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch
    07 January 2009

    Russia has cut off the gas flowing to and through Ukraine – again. Like in January 2006, Moscow and Kyiv are blaming each other, while a convoluted mix of political intrigues, shady middlemen and broken contracts makes it almost impossible for outsiders to ascertain which side is at fault.