Cameron's speechUK justice opt-outLessons for the UK
  • Cameron's optimistic, risky and ambiguous strategy
    Insight by Charles Grant, 24 January 2013
    Cameron's optimistic, risky and ambiguous strategy
  • Britain's 2014 justice opt-out: Why it bodes ill for Cameron's EU strategy
    Essay by Hugo Brady, 23 January 2013
    Britain's 2014 justice opt-out: Why it bodes ill for Cameron's EU strategy
  • Outsiders on the inside: Swiss and Norwegian lessons for the UK
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 24 September 2012
    Outsiders on the inside: Swiss and Norwegian lessons for the UK
  • EU politics after the elections
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 10 June 2009

    EU policies were not the issue that guided most voters in last week’s elections to the European Parliament. The economic crisis and job safety were uppermost in people’s minds.
  • Are the British the new French?
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 05 May 2009

    The British tend to deride France as a hopelessly statist, anti-entrepreneurial country full of bolshie workers intent on extracting disproportionate rewards for their labour and a state too weak to resist them. This characterisation is not wholly inaccurate.
  • Will Spain remain a small country?
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, 01 May 2009

    Spain punches below its weight in EU policy-making. Since Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero became prime minister, five years ago, Spanish influence in the EU has diminished.

  • Choices for Europe
    CER - University of Birmingham, Essay by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 May 2009

    Sluggish economic growth, high unemployment, ageing populations, climate change and security challenges on the borders of Europe have been some of the top priorities on the European agenda since the early 1990s. The EU has tried to tackle these issues, notably through its commitments to reduce greenhouse gases and its Lisbon strategy for economic growth.

  • Yes we can - and here's how
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 03 April 2009

    The credibility of Ireland’s already weak government will be on the line when it puts the Lisbon Treaty to a second referendum later this year.
  • Britain's Schengen dilemma
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 10 February 2009

    Britain supports more EU co-operation against terrorism, crime and illegal immigration and has done so for over a decade. This is because effective justice co-operation has clearly been in the national interest (as with the speedy capture and extradition of one of the 2005 London bombers from Italy to Britain).
  • The French, the European Commission and the Tories
    Insight by Charles Grant, 29 January 2009

    One Frenchman, Jean Monnet, invented the European Commission, and another, Jacques Delors, was its greatest president. Yet the French are increasingly hostile to this Brussels institution.
  • Why is Britain eurosceptic?
    Essay by Charles Grant, 19 December 2008

    The British are more hostile to the EU than any other European people. But why? Charles Grant looks at the role of geography, history and economics in nurturing euroscepticism.