• Bulletin article by Antonio Missiroli, 03 June 2002

    Football is the most European, and simultaneously, the most global of sports. The British Empire spread the game throughout Europe, and then worldwide.

  • Report by Heather Grabbe, Wolfgang Münchau, 04 February 2002

    Europe needs Germany and the UK to form an alliance. These two countries are closer than they have been for a generation on many vital issues.

  • Report by Charles Grant, 07 December 2001

    This report argues that many good things have come out of the crisis, so far. The US is re-engaging with the world. The European Union has accelerated its plans to integrate in the fields of external and internal security.

  • Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 August 2001

    In Paris, thinking on the future of the EU tends to focus on two French worries. One is the decline of the Franco-German relationship, and the consequent threat to French influence.

  • Report by Charles Grant, 01 September 2000

    The European Union's principal task in the first decades of the 21st century is to spread peace, stability, security and prosperity to the entire European continent. The chief mechanism for achieving this end is the enlargement of the Union.

  • Bulletin article by Steven Everts, 01 August 2000

    First Joschka Fischer and then Jacques Chirac have sought to frame the terms of the debate on the future of the EU. Mr Fischer's "centre of gravity" and Mr Chirac's "pioneer group" are the subject of earnest discussion in think-tanks, foreign ministries and newspaper columns.

  • Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 October 1999

    The history of Britain's troubled relationship with the European Union has been far too repetitive. Every time that the continental countries want to deepen their union, the British hold back and predict failure; and later, when they see the venture working, they grudgingly join and accept rules written by others.

  • Essay by Gilles Andréani, 05 February 1999

    The launch of the euro is a success of historic proportions. It is also the ultimate vindication of the method first sketched out nearly fifty years ago in the Schuman memorandum.