• Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 19 June 2007

    So far, Britain's stance on the German attempt to revise the EU treaties has been - from a British perspective - broadly reasonable.

  • Insight by Tomas Valasek, 14 March 2007

    For those spoiling for another good transatlantic fight, the headlines from last week’s EU summit must have come as manna from heaven.

  • Opinion piece by Daniel Keohane
    European Voice, 21 December 2006

    What future security and defence challenges should the EU prepare for?Europe should be worried about the spread of weapons-of-mass-destruction (WMD), failing states and terrorism. In fact it already is.

  • Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 22 October 2006

    Perhaps the most important challenge for EU foreign policy is to develop a more unified approach to Russia. The EU member-states have very similar interests in Russia.

  • Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 04 August 2006

    The formation of a new government - four months after parliamentary elections - is good news for Ukraine. The coalition is broad-based: the party of President Victor Yushchenko, Our Ukraine, has strong roots in the rural west of the country; the Regions party, led by the new prime minister, Victor Yanukovich, dominates the east; and the Socialist party, the third member of the coalition, is popular among farmers in the centre.

  • Bulletin article by Edgar Buckley, 01 August 2006

    In European Union defence, Britain and France spend the most money (45 per cent of the total), maintain the largest and most effective expeditionary forces, run the biggest defence industries and manage the most important research facilities.

  • Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    European Affairs, 01 June 2006

    The last two years have seen a rapprochement across the Atlantic. The elevation of new personnel – such as Condoleezza Rice to the State Department and Angela Merkel as German Chancellor – has helped to remove some of the bitterness that the Iraq confrontation had left behind.

  • Bulletin article by Daniel Keohane, 01 June 2006

    There is something rotten in the state of EU-NATO relations. Both organisations would benefit from working closely together on a range of security issues, from counter-terrorism to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.