German EU policySingle market Britain & the EU
  • Continuity and change in Germany's EU policy
    Insight by Charles Grant, 06 September 2013
    Continuity and change Germany's EU policy
  • Launch of the CER's commission on the UK and the single market
    Event, 05 June 2013, London
    Launch of the CER's commission on the UK and the single market
  • Tilting at European windmills
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 May 2013
    Tilting at European windmills
  • 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.

  • The Irish send out good vibrations on Lisbon
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 08 December 2008

    Ireland’s parliament – the Oireachtas – recently published a lengthy report on where the country’s relationship with the EU stands after the country’s rejection of the Lisbon treaty by referendum.
  • How a new Irish government might save Lisbon
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 24 October 2008

    The financial crisis is challenging many of our assumptions about the course of politics and world affairs. Gordon Brown – only weeks ago portrayed as nearing the end of his time as UK prime minister – has been elevated to European, even global leadership status.
  • In defence of Anglo-Saxon capitalism
    Insight by Charles Grant, 29 September 2008

    Those who never liked ‘Anglo-Saxon’ capitalism are feeling smug. Marxists, fans of ‘Rhineland’ capitalism and those who simply cannot stand American power are crowing.
  • The CER guide to the French presidency
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, Clara Marina O'Donnell, Hugo Brady, , Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 04 July 2008

    France's EU presidency was always going to be ambitious, with wideranging plans for climate change, immigration and defence. Now, however, France will have to focus on resolving the legal and institutional mess created by the Irish No to the EU's Lisbon treaty.
  • Tough choices to avoid euro-paralysis
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 19 June 2008

    The Irish did the wrong thing for the right reasons in their referendum on the Lisbon treaty. Voters rejected an international treaty, the benefits of which did not seem to merit a change to the country's constitution.