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
  • Europe will survive a French Non
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    Foreign Policy, 20 April 2005

    It's easy to argue that the European Union (EU) has been in a state of crisis since its inception more than 50 years ago. France voted “No” to European defense cooperation in 1954 and vetoed British EU membership in the 1960s.
  • A French lesson for Europe? A guide to the referenda on the EU constitutional treaty
    Briefing note by Daniel Keohane, 01 April 2005

    On 29 May 2005 France will hold the second of ten national referenda on the EU constitutional treaty. The 25 EU governments have until November 2006 to ratify the treaty.
  • What happens if Britain votes No?: Ten ways out of a constitutional crisis
    Report by Charles Grant, 01 February 2005

    If the rest of the EU adopts the constitutional treaty but the British vote against it, the Union faces crisis and instability. Charles Grant looks at what may happen next. Would there be a second referendum, or an attempt to renegotiate the treaties?
  • Europe's transformative power
    Bulletin article by Mark Leonard , 01 February 2005

    Type the words 'Europe' and 'crisis' into the internet search engine Google, and more than four million entries come up. The media use these two words so frequently that they have become interchangeable.
  • Will the French vote 'Non'
    Bulletin article by Aurore Wanlin , 01 February 2005

    President Jacques Chirac recently declared that the French referendum on the EU's constitutional treaty would take place "before the summer", and not in the second half of 2005 as previously planned.
  • Three cheers for EU democracy
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray, 01 December 2004

    When José Manuel Durao Barroso - under intense pressure from the European Parliament - was forced to withdraw his proposed Commission in late October, many journalists were quick to portray the event as yet another EU crisis.
  • A new era in European democracy
    Bulletin article by Steven Everts, Daniel Keohane, 01 October 2004

    The era of European integration by stealth is over. At least nine EU countries are committed to holding a referendum on the new constitutional treaty.
  • Why Tony needs help from a Tory
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    New Statesman, 09 September 2004

    Each man kills the thing he loves - and so it could be with Tony Blair and Europe. For ten years the Prime Minister has promised to "settle" Britain's ambivalent relationship with the EU.