ScotlandBritain & the EEASSummit analysis
  • Scotland's bid to join the EU
    Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 03 August 2009
    Scotland
  • What Europe's new diplomatic service can do for Britain
    Insight by Edward Burke, 10 January 2012
    Britain should stop underming EU foreign policy
  • The UK-EU split: The impact on Central Europe
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 13 December 2011
    The UK-EU split: The impact on Central Europe
  • Is Austria the new Finland?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 13 January 2012

    Germany and France tend to pre-cook euro rescue plans. Smaller EU countries resent being sidelined. Slovakia and Finland have threatened vetoes and demanded concessions. Which country is next?
  • What Europe's new diplomatic service can do for Britain
    Insight by Edward Burke, 10 January 2012

    Following a recent agreement on EU foreign policy the UK should not miss an opportunity to use Europe's new diplomatic service to reinforce British interests.
  • Nothing to celebrate
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Foreign Policy, 04 January 2012

    Think 2011 was a bad year for Europe? 2012 could be a whole lot worse - if EU leaders don't get serious and deal with these 6 problems.

  • Making EU allies
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Times, 20 December 2011
    The Government should seek to protect the City, but went about it the wrong way at the Brussels summit.Sir, Camilla Cavendish's article on the City and the EU (“France defends farmers: we must save the City”, Dec 15) contains much common sense.
  • Why Ireland should ratify any eurozone treaty early
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    The Sunday Business Post, 18 December 2011

    EU officials are putting the final touches to the first draft of a 'fiscal stability' treaty to be ratified by eurozone countries by the end of 2012. The treaty - which commits each euro government to run balanced budgets in perpetuity -  will be one of the oddest ever signed up to by an Irish government.
  • David Cameron has left the City more, not less, vulnerable to EU law
    Opinion piece by Philip Whyte
    The Guardian, 14 December 2011

    There are many puzzles about the British government's tactics at last week's EU summit. One is why it chose to identify the City of London as the "vital national interest" that needed special protection. The City, after all, is the most unpopular "national champion" that the UK possesses.
  • The UK-EU split: The impact on Central Europe
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 13 December 2011

    The UK decision to boycott the new EU treaty has left like-minded countries in Central European in weaker position to resist France's etatist tendencies.
  • Follia,in cinque anni via dell'Ue
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    Il Mattino, 12 December 2011
    Londra. "Foolish". Assurda, dissennata, imprudente. La decisione presa da David Cameron preoccupa Simon Tilford, capo economista della prestigiosa think tank britannica Centre for european reform. La mossa del premier è incomprensibile, sostiene Tilford, e danneggerà la Gran Bretagna ma, in parte, anche la Ue.