• Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Observer, 25 October 2009

    Yes, says Charles Grant. His presence would improve the global credibility of the EU. No, says Henry Porter. He co-authored the Iraq war and is not a convinced democrat.

  • Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 07 October 2009

    If the Lisbon treaty enters into force, which seems likely, the European Union will appoint a president to chair the European Council, which brings together the heads of government.

  • Bulletin article by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 October 2009

    Britain’s current approach to defence is unsustainable. Ambitious operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, coupled with expensive weapons programmes, have fed a defence budget deficit that is forecast to be £2 billion a year by 2011-2012.

  • Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    International Herald Tribune, 28 September 2009

    A popular Continental misconception about Britain is that it is some kind of ultra-free economy where there is limited social welfare and where the market has been introduced into every aspect of life.

  • Insight by Philip Whyte, 07 August 2009

    Disasters often provoke unseemly bouts of finger-pointing. This has certainly been true of the global financial crisis. In the Anglo-Saxon world, libertarians have blamed it on governments, and governments on ‘bankers’. 

  • Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 03 August 2009

    Britain’s media and political class have a right to be sceptical about the EU, even hostile to it. But they also have an obligation to be honest about the economic implications of a retreat from full membership of the Union.

  • Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 03 August 2009

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  • Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    Financial Times, 16 July 2009

    When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object bad things usually happen. And so it will be next year when spending cuts imposed by the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression meet the rising demands of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.