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Should Europol and Eurojust merge?

Insight by Hugo Brady
07 December 2007

Governments increasingly use Europol, the EU’s police office, and Eurojust - its prosecution unit - to investigate criminals operating across borders and bring them to justice.
European retail banking: Will there ever be a single market?

Policy brief by David Shirreff
03 December 2007

Integrated markets for entertainment and communications, as well as nearly all goods, stretch from the Arctic to Cyprus. By contrast, Europe’s retail banking industry remains largely segmented along national lines.
Issue 57 December/January 2008

30 November 2007
Politics, Sarkozy and the euro
By Philip Whyte
Europe’s defence and its new security strategy
External author(s): Tomas Valasek
The EU must stand firm on Bosnia
By Charles Grant. External author(s): Tomas Valasek
China is losing its EU friends

Insight by Katinka Barysch
29 November 2007

The EU is getting tough on China. That, at least, is the impression one gets from high-ranking EU officials that arrived for the annual EU-China summit in Beijing this week. Economics is the main reason for Europe’s changing mood.
Bringing Syria into the Middle East peace process

Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell
23 November 2007

The nearer the Annapolis conference comes, the less it looks likely to deliver peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The weakness of the key actors and the current conditions on the ground in the Palestinian territories offer little reason for optimism.
The euro as the world’s reserve currency?

Insight by Simon Tilford
15 November 2007

Back in the 1970s President Nixon’s treasury secretary, John Connally, famously quipped that “the dollar may be our currency, but it’s your problem”.
Sarkonomics – a user’s guide

Insight by Philip Whyte
08 November 2007

President Sarkozy is frequently portrayed in France and elsewhere as an “economic liberal”. This is a mistake. He is undoubtedly an economic reformer prepared to take on the privileges of labour market “insiders”; but he retains a French dirigiste’s belief in an active role for the state in economic development.
EU-Russia: no more ambitions

Insight by Katinka Barysch
01 November 2007

The CER organised a conference on EU-Russia relations in Brussels on October 30th, together with ‘Russia Profile’ magazine. I have been to dozens of these EU-Russia meetings in the last couple of years.