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  • Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?
    Insight by Charles Grant, 10 June 2013
    Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?
  • The CER commission on the UK and the single market
    Insight by John Springford, 07 June 2013
    The CER commission on the UK and the single market
  • Tilting at European windmills
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 May 2013
    Tilting at European windmills
  • 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?
  • What happens if Britain votes No?: Ten ways out of a constitutional crisis
    Report by Charles Grant, 01 February 2005

    If the rest of the EU adopts the constitutional treaty but the British vote against it, the Union faces crisis and instability. Charles Grant looks at what may happen next. Would there be a second referendum, or an attempt to renegotiate the treaties?
  • The peculiarities of the British
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 August 2004

    In most European countries, those who dislike the EU tend to be the poor and the less educated, who fear for their future and travel little. The politicians who speak for such people tend to come from the far left or far right.
  • It's time to do your homework
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 17 June 2004

    For the past seven years Britain has been led by the most pro-European prime minister since Ted Heath, yet the mood of the country has never been more Europhobic.
  • If Britain votes no ...
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 June 2004

    Some people claim to know what will happen if a British referendum defeats the European constitutional treaty. Michael Howard, the Conservative leader, points out that the treaty cannot enter into force unless it is ratified by every member-state.
  • Mighty Europe
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    The Wall Street Journal, 05 February 2004

    London, Paris and Berlin are working hard to put the past behind them. After a year that began with bitter rancor over Iraq and ended with the collapse of negotiations over the European constitution, the desire of pro-Europeans to face the future is understandable.  
  • Should Britain hold a referendum on the EU Constitution?
    Bulletin article by Steven Everts and Charles Grant , 01 January 2004

    Dear Charles,