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Europe's blurred boundaries:
Rethinking enlargement and neigbourhood policy
by Charles Grant, October 2006

In many parts of the EU there is growing hostility to further enlargement. Charles Grant argues that the EU must keep open the prospect of accession for its European neighbours, and suggests how opposition to enlargement can best be overcome. He also examines the EU's policy towards neighbours that are unlikely to join in the foreseeable future.

Charles Grant is director of the Centre for European Reform.

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Will the eurozone crack?
by Simon Tilford, September 2006

Europeans often refer to Economic and Monetary Union and enlargement as the EU's two greatest successes. However, the basis for a sustainable currency union is not in place. Unless the members rapidly boost their reform efforts, and unless economic growth across the eurozone accelerates, EMU faces a bleak future. What happens in Italy will be critical. If Italy fails to improve its competitiveness, it will eventually have to leave the eurozone.

Simon Tilford is head of the business unit at the Centre for European Reform.

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The future of European universities:
Renaissance or decay?
by Richard Lambert and Nick Butler,
June 2006

Knowledge is an increasingly critical factor in shaping economic life. But in Europe, the institutions that should be the main sources of knowledge are failing to meet the challenge. Among the world's top ten universities, only two are in the EU. Europe's higher education institutions are slow-moving and under funded. If Europe wants to stop falling behind and stem the 'brain drain' across the Atlantic it must act now.

Richard Lambert will take over as Director General of the CBI in July 2006. Nick Butler is Group Vice President for Strategy and Policy Development at BP p.l.c.

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The Lisbon scorecard VI:
Will Europe's economy rise again?
by Aurore Wanlin, March 2006

The European Union and its 'Lisbon agenda' of economic reform, have received a battering over the past year. The pace of reform has remained slow in the big eurozone countries. Fears over the EU's eastward enlargement and high levels of unemployment have fostered a new spirit of national protectionism. Yet Aurore Wanlin argues that many underlying trends are positive.

Aurore Wanlin is a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform.

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