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
  • Will the Irish guillotine Lisbon?
    Briefing note by Hugo Brady, 04 June 2008

    On 12 June 2008 Ireland will hold the EU's only referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. With the campaign entering its decisive phase, polls indicate that the vote could be dramatically close with turnout determining the result.

  • Bad omens loom over Irish referendum
    Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 01 February 2008

    Ireland's voters have a crucial decision to make on the future of the EU – in May or June this year – when they vote in the only referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon.

  • Poland’s bold new foreign policy
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 February 2008

    For the rest of Europe, the worst thing about Poland’s Law and Justice government, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was its foreign policy. His approach towards Russia, Germany and (sometimes) the EU – supported by his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski – was confrontational.

  • 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.