EU legitimacySingle market Britain & the EU
  • 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
  • Britain and the euro: How to reap the benefits
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch, 06 June 2003

    The British government predicts that joining the euro would boost domestic investment, employment and growth – provided the economic conditions are right. It has promised to implement measures to ensure that Britain will benefit from the euro.
  • Defrosting the entente glaciale
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 June 2003

    When Britain and France fall out, they damage not only each other but also the United Nations, NATO and the EU's embryonic foreign and defence policy. So long as Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair remain leaders of rival European gangs, a harmonious transatlantic relationship is impossible.
  • The CER guide to Giscard's draft EU constitution
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, 30 May 2003

    The draft constitution for the EU published on 26 and 27 May 2003 has provoked a ferocious debate in the British press. However, on closer inspection, the text would not fundamentally change the UK’s position in the EU, and it secures nearly all of the British government’s key objectives.
  • New designs for Europe
    Report by Charles Grant, , 04 October 2002

    Everybody agrees that the EU's institutions are in bad need of reform. In the Convention on the Future of Europe, and elsewhere, a real debate has begun on how Europe should be governed.
  • Playing the European game
    Bulletin article by Antonio Missiroli, 03 June 2002

    Football is the most European, and simultaneously, the most global of sports. The British Empire spread the game throughout Europe, and then worldwide.
  • Germany and Britain: An alliance of necessity
    Report by Heather Grabbe, Wolfgang Münchau, 04 February 2002

    Europe needs Germany and the UK to form an alliance. These two countries are closer than they have been for a generation on many vital issues.
  • Europe after September 11th
    Report by Charles Grant, 07 December 2001

    This report argues that many good things have come out of the crisis, so far. The US is re-engaging with the world. The European Union has accelerated its plans to integrate in the fields of external and internal security.
  • EU2010: An optimistic view of the future
    Report by Charles Grant, 01 September 2000

    The European Union's principal task in the first decades of the 21st century is to spread peace, stability, security and prosperity to the entire European continent. The chief mechanism for achieving this end is the enlargement of the Union.