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
  • Politics, Sarkozy and the euro
    Bulletin article by Philip Whyte, 03 December 2007

    Not long after its launch, the euro was famously dismissed by a disgruntled currency trader as a “toilet currency”. How things have changed. Since 2003, the euro’s external value has soared, particularly against the US dollar.
  • Yes to a referendum, but not on this treaty
    Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 01 October 2007

    Britain is divided over the EU’s new Reform Treaty. The eurosceptic lobby is ratcheting up a well-funded, media-savvy campaign to pressure the government into holding a referendum on the treaty.
  • Portugal's presidency
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch, 09 July 2007

    On 1 July 2007, Portugal took over the EU's rotating presidency from Germany. Angela Merkel's six months at the helm will be a tough act to follow.
  • Sarkozy, secularism and Turkey’s European future
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 01 June 2007

    Can things get worse for Turkey? The presidential election is stalled; the army threatens to intervene; millions are protesting in the streets; EU negotiations remain partly suspended; terrorism in the South-East could prompt military forays into northern Iraq; and the new French president wants to see Turkey in a Mediterranean Union but not in the EU.
  • European choices for Gordon Brown
    Report by Charles Grant, Hugo Brady, Simon Tilford, 01 June 2007

    Gordon Brown becomes prime minister at a pivotal moment for the European Union. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have emerged as powerful European leaders.
  • Britain and Europe: A City minister's perspective
    Essay by Ed Balls MP, 18 May 2007

    Britain's membership of the EU strengthens London as a global financial centre, argues City Minister, Ed Balls. The UK should engage actively with the EU, to ensure that its financial regulation is proportionate, flexible, and implemented effectively.
  • Britain and the EU: a crisis looms
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 April 2007

    British politicians are too complacent about Germany’s plan to salvage large parts of the EU constitutional treaty. They assume that other countries will reject the German presidency’s scheme, so sparing Britain from isolation.
  • The view from 2027
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, 22 March 2007

    Given how much respect and esteem most Europeans feel for the EU today, one can easily forget that when it celebrated its 50th birthday, in 2007, it was widely disliked and mistrusted.