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Europe's new economy
by Charles Leadbeater, November 1999

Europe needs a new economic story because it faces a new economic challenge. The challenge is to transform European science and technology, knowledge and creativity, into jobs, growth and economic success. The generation, dissemination, application and exploitation of distinctive knowhow is the driving force behind economic growth in a globally interconnected economy. That puts a premium on innovation, entrepreneurship and agility.

ISBN: 1 901 229 14 9

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Policing Europe: EU justice and home affairs co-operation
by Ben Hall with Ashish Bhatt, October 1999

Most observers of the European Union see the single currency as the principal driving force of European integration in the coming decade. But another cluster of policy issues will also spur closer co-operation between national governments, and the pooling of sovereignty.
Co-operation between police, customs, immigration and judicial authorities in the area known as 'justice and home affairs' (JHA) will drive a new wave of European integration.

ISBN: 1 901 229 13 0

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Europe's defence industry: A transatlantic future
by Gordon Adams, Alex Ashbourne, Luc Boureau, Bruce Clark, Chris Crane, Charles Grant, Keith Hayward, Theresa Hitchens, Robbin Laird, Denis Verret and Stephan von Henneberg, 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. This British German merger would, it seemed, be the first step towards the creation of a company that would also incorporate the French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish military aerospace industries.

ISBN: 1 901 229 12 2

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Will EMU lead to a European economic government?
by David Currie, Alan Donnelly, Heiner Flassbeck, Ben Hall, Jean Lemierre, Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa and Nigel Wicks, 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'. After all, the architects of the single currency—Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand and Jacques Delors—saw it in part as a way of binding a reunited and more powerful Germany into a closer European Union.

ISBN: 1 901 229 11 4

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Russia in Europe
by Rodric Braithwaite, 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. Those who now believe that Russia is in terminal decline are no more likely to be right than those who were predicting two years ago that Russia was on the verge of an economic boom.

ISBN: 1 901 229 10 6

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Can Britain lead in Europe?
by Charles Grant, October 1998

Britain should join France and Germany in forming a triple alliance to lead the European Union, suggested Gerhard Schröder, the German Social Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, in April 1998. Joshka Fischer, the leader of the German Green Party, reacted swiftly. "If he [Schröder] tried to widen the Franco-German relationship into a triangle with Britain it would be a disaster for Europe," said Mr Fischer. "Britain just doesn't know what it wants."

ISBN: 1 901 229 09 2

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Turkey and the European Union
by David Barchard, July 1998

Relations between Turkey and the European Union have seldom been worse. Unless they improve, this strategically-crucial country may turn its back on Europe. David Barchard calls on the EU to give firmer assurances that Turkey is eligible for membership. He also points out that unless the Cyprus problem is resolved, relations between Greece and Turkey - and thus the EU and Turkey - are unlikely to get better. For its part Turkey needs to try harder to reform its administration, improve its human rights record and modernise its economy.

ISBN: 1 901 229 09 3

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Weak dollar strong euro?
The international impact of EMU
by C. Fred Bergsten, May 1998

The creation of the euro will be the most important development in the evolution of the international monetary system since the widespread adoption of flexible exchange rates in the early 1970s. It will almost certainly be the most important development for the monetary dimension of the system since the dollar became the world's top currency. The euro is set to topple the dollar from its position as dominant global currency, or at least match it, according to Fred Bergsten.

ISBN: 1 901 229 08 4

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Britain & the new European agenda
by Lionel Barber, January 1998

The European Union is changing. Faster than many in Britain imagine. In the next 12 months, the EU faces a series of interlocking decisions which are likely to define the future of the continent for the next generation. The planned launch of the single European currency on January 1st 1999 will mark the most far-reaching change in the international monetary order since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system. Enlargement of the EU to the former communist countries of central and eastern Europe will complete an historical cycle which began with the division of the continent at Yalta in 1945.