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
  • Viewpoints: How experts see UK role in EU
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    BBC News, 22 November 2012

    How does the UK fit into the EU's plans for closer economic and political integration? Many British MPs want Prime Minister David Cameron to call an "in or out" referendum and opinion polls suggest many British voters are disillusioned with the EU.
  • Meerderheid Britten wil uit de EU
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Knack, 21 November 2012

    Aan de vooravond van alweer een belangrijke Europese topbijeenkomst is Charles Grant in Brussel. De directeur van het Britse Centre for European Reform heeft het bijzonder druk dezer dagen.

  • Much ado about little: Britain and the EU budget
    Insight by John Springford, 07 November 2012

    Britain is expending considerable political capital on freezing the EU budget. It would be best to push for reform of how the budget is spent.
  • Can Angela Merkel talk Cameron into being a more flexible ally?
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Guardian, 07 November 2012

    The vexed EU budget is supposed to be the main topic of discussion when Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, meets David Cameron for supper on Wednesday in Downing Street.

  • London to Germany: Now save the euro
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Globalist, 31 October 2012

    Plenty of policy makers and analysts in the United States and the United Kingdom think Germany is destroying the euro. The Germans think they are saving it. Clearly, they both can't be right.

  • A three-tier EU puts single market at risk
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 25 October 2012

    The euro crisis is changing the shape of the EU. As the countries in the eurozone seek to strengthen it by centralising economic policy making, three tiers are emerging within the union.

  • Will the euro crisis lead to the break-up of EU member-states?
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 24 October 2012

    The crisis is fuelling separatism in Spain and Belgium. But elsewhere in Europe separatists do poorly. Scotland's example may yet discourage others from following Catalonia and Flanders.
  • Hollande, los Alemanes y la union politica
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Foreign Policy - En espanol, 16 October 2012

    Antes de convertirse en presidente de Francia, François Hollande no parecía estar muy interesado en la UE. Sin embargo, en su juventud fue un protegido de Jacques Delors, el gran europeo de la izquierda francesa, y su instinto es, en términos generales, europeísta.