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  • Cameron's optimistic, risky and ambiguous strategy
    Insight by Charles Grant, 24 January 2013
    Cameron's optimistic, risky and ambiguous strategy
  • Britain's 2014 justice opt-out: Why it bodes ill for Cameron's EU strategy
    Essay by Hugo Brady, 23 January 2013
    Britain's 2014 justice opt-out: Why it bodes ill for Cameron's EU strategy
  • Britain, Europe and the City of London: Can the triangle be managed?
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 20 July 2012
    Britain, Europe and the City of London
  • Europe’s social dilemma
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray, 01 August 2005

    Of all the items on the agenda of the British EU presidency, perhaps the least expected is a debate on ‘social Europe’. Tired of being crudely caricatured as ‘neoliberal’, Tony Blair has invited EU leaders to an informal summit in October to discuss the future of Europe’s social model.
  • A bad European dream
    Bulletin article by Daniel Keohane, 01 August 2005

    On a grey Thursday morning in June 2006, Lee Barker, a 29-year-old Midlands businessman, was packing his bags to go to Germany.
  • Europe - Don't write the obituaries yet. A new France could put Britain on the sidelines
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    New Statesman, 06 June 2005

    The gleeful obituaries are piling up, not just for the EU constitution, but for the country that torpedoed it. France is in a mess, we read; its politics are paralysed, its economy is over-regulated and it just can't accommodate itself to globalisation with an Anglo-Saxon face.
  • Europe - Did we make the right choice?
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    Yorkshire Post, 03 June 2005

    Though often criticised as being undemocratic, popular referenda have been pivotal in the history of the European Union. Recent events in France and Netherlands aside, perhaps none more so than the 1975 poll confirming Britain's membership of the then European Economic Community.
  • Un sale coup pour Blair
    Opinion piece by Daniel Keohane
    L'Express, 30 May 2005

    Comment réagit-on outre-Manche au non du peuple français?
  • What If the British Vote No?
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Foreign Affairs, 02 May 2005

    In June 2004, the member states of the European Union concluded the negotiation of a treaty that, if ratified, would establish a European constitution that would make substantive changes to the way the union works.
  • A British No would destroy more than the treaty
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 16 March 2005

    If opinion polls are a fair guide, all European Union countries will ratify the new constitutional treaty - except Britain, which seems set to vote No in the referendum due in mid-2006.
  • Get your coat Mr Blair – you've just been asked to leave the EU
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    European Voice, 17 February 2005

    There are a host of ifs and buts. But the UK might, just might, be asked to leave the European Union if British voters reject the constitution, warns Charles Grant What if current opinion polls are a good guide to voting intentions in the ten member states that will hold referenda on the EU’s constitutional treaty?