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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
  • Of mice, men and the language of EU reform
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 18 July 2007

    Beware the humourless, especially in politics. At a CER/Clifford Chance conference last week, Guiliano Amato, Italy’s interior minister, pronounced that the Reform Treaty was a return to familiar territory for the EU: an unreadable treaty.
  • Russia: Analyst sees potential in Europe's new relationship
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Radio Free Europe, 17 July 2007

    Katinka Barysch, the head of the Russia research program at the London-based Centre for European Reform, has written extensively about politics and economics in Eastern Europe and advised Britain's House of Lords and European Commission on foreign policy.
  • We do not need a referendum
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 23 June 2007

    Thank goodness for the agreement in Brussels last night. Without a deal, the EU would have been mired in arguments on treaties, institutions and process for a prolonged period.
  • Constitutional fudge
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 19 June 2007

    So far, Britain's stance on the German attempt to revise the EU treaties has been - from a British perspective - broadly reasonable.
  • European choices for Gordon Brown
    Report by Charles Grant, Hugo Brady, Simon Tilford, 01 June 2007

    Gordon Brown becomes prime minister at a pivotal moment for the European Union. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have emerged as powerful European leaders.
  • Britain and Europe: A City minister's perspective
    Essay by Ed Balls MP, 18 May 2007

    Britain's membership of the EU strengthens London as a global financial centre, argues City Minister, Ed Balls. The UK should engage actively with the EU, to ensure that its financial regulation is proportionate, flexible, and implemented effectively.
  • If Nixon could go to China, Brown can go to Brussels
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 17 May 2007

    W.B. Yeats lamented a Europe where, in politics at least, “the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity”. As Tony Blair bows out as UK prime minister, British pro-Europeans will identify with his sentiments.
  • What future? France's Socialist party needs a rethink
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 07 May 2007

    France's Socialist party needs to rethink its identity and its strategy. Having lost three presidential elections in a row, the party needs to learn from centre-left parties not only in Britain, but also in Italy, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries and Spain.