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Europe after September 11th
by Edward Bannerman, Steven Everts, Heather Grabbe, Charles Grant and Alasdair Murray, December 2001

This report argues that many good things have come out of the crisis, so far. The US is re-engaging with the world. The European Union has accelerated its plans to integrate in the fields of external and internal security. It is therefore better able to meet global challenges, and to act as a useful international partner. Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, Russia has taken a strategic decision to move closer to the West, while NATO is becoming more of a political and less of a military organisation.

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ISBN: 1 901 229 26 2

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Profiting from EU enlargement
by Heather Grabbe, June 2001

Heather Grabbe weights up the risks of enlargement against the extra trade, investment and stability that enlargement will provide and argues that the price for the existing members will be small. By 2010, the European Union could cover another third of the map of Europe, with 25 members and nearly half a billion people. It will move from being a rich country club to a continental union. Taking in the ten central European candidates will be the Union's greatest contribution to the continent's stability.

ISBN: 1 901 229 25 4

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The future of European stock markets
by Alasdair Murray, May 2001

Alasdair Murray look at how the absence of a single market in equities within the EU increases the cost of capital and restricts Europe's ability to close the economic gap with the United States. The creation of a single market in financial services is one of the European Union's great unfinished projects. While Europe has found the will to push ahead with more ambitious schemes, such as the euro, its attempts to liberalise financial services have faltered, hampered by political disagreements and the EU's cumbersome legislative apparatus.

ISBN: 1 901 229 23 8

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Europe's military revolution
by Gilles Andréani, Christophe Bertram and
Charles Grant, March 2001

The creation of the single European currency, a revolutionary innovation for the European Union (EU), has provoked tumultuous debate across the continent and beyond. Yet the EU's plans for a common defence policy have - thus far - attracted less attention. These plans are also of revolutionary significance because they could, in the long run, transform the nature of the European Union, its relations with other parts of the world and, in particular, the shape of transatlantic relations.

ISBN: 1 901 229 22 X

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How the EU can help Russia
by David Gowan, January 2001

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is starting to take the EU seriously, as an entity in its own right. But many Russians feel ambiguous about the EU's development, particularly its enlargement into Eastern Europe. In How the EU can help Russia, David Gowan analyses the state of EU-Russia relations and suggests ways in which the two sides can enhance their economic and political ties.

ISBN: 1 901 229 20 3

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EU2010: An optimistic view of the future
by Charles Grant, September 2000

The European Union's principal task in the first decades of the 21st century is to spread peace, stability, security and prosperity to the entire European continent. The chief mechanism for achieving this end is the enlargement of the Union. In 2010 the Union's 26 members already cover much of the continent, while almost every European country which has not yet joined aspires to do so. The membership includes (in addition to the 15 countries which comprised the EU in 2000) Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Thus the Union's population is 460 million.

ISBN: 1 901 229 19 X

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The EU and world trade
by Richard Cunningham, Peter Lichtenbaum and Julie Wolf, September 2000

The paradox of trade policy is that, at a time when political leaders in most parts of the world have accepted the intellectual case for trade liberalisation more thoroughly than ever before, public opposition to free trade is on the rise. Most politicians are keen to advance the cause of free trade because they understand that it brings about economic growth. But they know that they must also address the legitimate concerns of developing countries about the workings of the world trading system, while simultaneously trying to respond to domestic criticism by those whose interests may suffer at the hands of market liberalisation.

ISBN: 1 901 229 18 1

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The spectre of tax harmonisation
by Kitty Ussher, February 2000

Europe's citizens, generally speaking, do not want their taxes set by Brussels. Taxation and representation still go hand in hand. So it is safe to assume that so long as people continue to look to their national governments to represent their interests (and turn out to vote for their national politicians in greater numbers than for MEPs), they will reject the notion of taxation policies being decided at European Union level. Before the launch of the euro the tax harmonisation issue was of peripheral interest, seemingly confined to discussions of the single market.

ISBN: 1 901 229 16 5

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