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  • Is Britain on the way out of Europe?
    Opinion piece 20 April 2012
    Is Britain on the way out of Europe?
  • How to keep Britain in the EU
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 26 March 2012
    How to keep Britain in the EU
  • How to wake Britain from sleepwalking to the EU exit
    Opinion piece 07 March 2012
    How to wake Britain from sleepwalking to the EU exit
  • Is Britain on the way out of Europe?
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Social Europe Journal, 20 April 2012
    Ever since they joined the EU in 1973, the British have been sceptical about political integration in Europe. They have valued the economic benefits of membership, notably the single market, but opposed the concept of ‘political union’. The eurozone crisis is now increasing the gap between Britain and much of the rest of the EU.
  • How to keep Britain in the EU
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 26 March 2012
    At a time when some governments are pushing for a more integrated European Union, the British are becoming more eurosceptic. This contradiction increases the likelihood of Britain eventually leaving the EU – an outcome that, if current trends continue, is thoroughly plausible.
  • How to wake Britain from sleepwalking to the EU exit
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Europe's world, 07 March 2012

    History, geography and economics are all responsible for the UK’s deep-seated euroscepticism, says Charles Grant. But now these forces are strengthening so that Britain could easily leave the Union within 10 years. He sets out tactics for countering that.
  • What Europe's new diplomatic service can do for Britain
    Insight by Edward Burke, 10 January 2012

    Following a recent agreement on EU foreign policy the UK should not miss an opportunity to use Europe's new diplomatic service to reinforce British interests.
  • Nothing to celebrate
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Foreign Policy, 04 January 2012

    Think 2011 was a bad year for Europe? 2012 could be a whole lot worse - if EU leaders don't get serious and deal with these 6 problems.

  • Making EU allies
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Times, 20 December 2011
    The Government should seek to protect the City, but went about it the wrong way at the Brussels summit.Sir, Camilla Cavendish's article on the City and the EU (“France defends farmers: we must save the City”, Dec 15) contains much common sense.
  • David Cameron has left the City more, not less, vulnerable to EU law
    Opinion piece by Philip Whyte
    The Guardian, 14 December 2011

    There are many puzzles about the British government's tactics at last week's EU summit. One is why it chose to identify the City of London as the "vital national interest" that needed special protection. The City, after all, is the most unpopular "national champion" that the UK possesses.
  • Follia,in cinque anni via dell'Ue
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    Il Mattino, 12 December 2011
    Londra. "Foolish". Assurda, dissennata, imprudente. La decisione presa da David Cameron preoccupa Simon Tilford, capo economista della prestigiosa think tank britannica Centre for european reform. La mossa del premier è incomprensibile, sostiene Tilford, e danneggerà la Gran Bretagna ma, in parte, anche la Ue.