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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

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.
Is David Cameron Margaret Thatcher’s heir on Europe?

Opinion piece by Charles Grant
Carnegie Europe, 09 April 2013

Not at all. David Cameron sees the EU very differently to Margaret Thatcher. For a start, when Thatcher was prime minister she was strongly opposed to referendums on the EU.
Germany’s plans for treaty change – and what they mean for Britain

Insight by Charles Grant, 28 March 2013

Germany is no longer pushing for a new EU treaty. This makes it harder for David Cameron to renegotiate the terms of British membership.
Central and East European migrants are a boon for Britain

Bulletin article by John Springford, 25 March 2013

When economies are struggling, governments find it difficult to resist calls for protectionism of one form or another. The British government is trying to erect barriers to immigration.

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