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Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?
Insight by Charles Grant, 10 June 2013
The CER commission on the UK and the single market
Insight by John Springford, 07 June 2013
Tilting at European windmills
Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 May 2013

Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?

Insight by Charles Grant, 10 June 2013

The euro crisis has hit the EU's legitimacy. Part of the answer is to give national parliamentarians a bigger role in the EU.
The CER commission on the UK and the single market

Insight by John Springford, 07 June 2013

The CER's commission was launched this week. Policy experts, economists and business people will examine the economic case for and against EU membership.
Tilting at European windmills

Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 May 2013

Britain's debate about the costs and benefits of EU membership is welcome and overdue. It should be based on informed analysis, not scary sound bites.
Could Britain's coalition collapse over EU police co-operation?

Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 24 May 2013

Britain's government has finally reached internal agreement on opting out of EU police co-operation. But the fragile accord exposes the coalition’s fundamental differences over Europe.
Britain could reshape Europe if it would only try

Opinion piece by Charles Grant
Financial Times, 14 May 2013

Is there any point in Britain staying in the EU if it is outside the euro? No, according to increasing numbers of British eurosceptics and European federalists.
The working time directive: What's the fuss about?

Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 26 April 2013

The working time directive has had limited impact on British business. It has caused trouble in hospitals partly because the NHS relies so heavily on junior doctors.
European austerity: Turn or TINA?

Insight by Simon Tilford, 25 April 2013

Despite the overwhelming weight of evidence, both empirical and theoretical, many policy-makers will continue to trot out Margaret Thatcher's favourite line: there is no alternative.
Thatcher's legacy to Europe

Opinion piece by Charles Grant
World Economic Forum ForumBlog, 12 April 2013

Margaret Thatcher became a totem for Britain's eurosceptics. And it is true that in her final years in office – and even more after she left it – she became virulently eurosceptic.

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