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Britain's 2014 justice opt-out: Why it bodes ill for Cameron's EU strategy
Essay by Hugo Brady, 23 January 2013
Asia's fading economic miracle
Policy brief by George Magnus, 11 January 2013
How to expand renewable energy after 2020
Policy brief by Stephen Tindale, 07 December 2012

Eurozone crisis: Can contagion to Italy be arrested?

Insight by Philip Whyte
05 August 2011

The eurozone's debt crisis has spread to Italy. It is becoming increasingly doubtful that much-needed domestic economic reforms will be sufficient to restore market confidence in the country.
Why the eurozone needs debt mutualisation

Insight by Simon Tilford
28 July 2011

The attempt to run a common monetary policy without a common treasury has failed. Debt mutualisation is necessary if the eurozone is to survive.
Marine Le Pen and the rise of populism

Insight by Charles Grant
20 July 2011

Marine Le Pen's anti-EU populism resonates in much of northern Europe. Debating the CER's director, Charles Grant, she claimed she was neither left nor right.
The new EU budget: A missed opportunity

Insight by Stephen Tindale
11 July 2011

The Commission's proposals for the EU's 2014-2020 budgets are a missed opportunity, representing no substantial change. Spending on agriculture should be greatly reduced, that on cohesion re-focused and that on climate greatly increased.
Financial regulation: Britain the perennial outlier?

Insight by Philip Whyte
20 June 2011

Back in 2007, when the Labour government had abolished the business cycle and the City of London was booming, British policy-makers liked to vaunt the merits of ‘light touch’ regulation.
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.
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.