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  • Europe's struggle for influence in Egypt
    Insight by Rem Korteweg, 23 August 2013
    Europe's struggle for influence in Egypt
  • Turkey’s Twitter generation is its European future
    Insight by Heather Grabbe, 19 June 2013
    Gezi park protest
  • Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
    Bulletin article by Rem Korteweg, 25 March 2013
    Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
  • Serbia’s choice
    Bulletin article by Angela Heath , 01 August 2006

    Serbia faces a stark political choice this year: to make progress towards joining the EU and NATO, or to turn backwards towards bitter nationalism and a mentality of victimhood.
  • The EU must keep its promise to the Western Balkans
    Essay by Tim Judah, 07 July 2006

    Enlargement has been one of the EU's most successful policies. In the case of the Central and East European countries, the wish to join the Union has helped to foster stability, democratisation and economic reform.
  • Cyprus, Turkey and the EU: Time for a sense of proportion and compromise
    Policy brief by Lord Hannay, 03 July 2006

    The start of Turkish accession talks provided a faint glimmer of hope for unfreezing the Cyprus stalemate that has prevailed since the Greek Cypriots voted down a UN-sponsored settlement plan in 2004.
  • Adieu, Europe?
    Opinion piece by
    Open democracy, 29 June 2006

    The machinery of the European Union has recovered from the shock of the failed French and Dutch referenda, but not the heart that pumps it, says Aurore Wanlin.
  • Can we live with a nuclear Iran?
    Bulletin article by Mark Leonard, 01 June 2006

    As Europeans and Americans put together a final package of incentives to divert Iran from its nuclear course, the world is facing up to the possibility of failure.
  • The EU's awkward neighbour: Time for a new policy on Belarus
    Policy brief by Charles Grant, 06 April 2006

    On 19 March 2006 the people of Belarus vote in a presidential election. The result of an election that has been neither free nor fair is certain: President Alyaksandr Lukashenka will be re-elected. What is not certain is how the EU reacts.
  • Belarus blue
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Wall Street Journal, 15 March 2006

    To a first-time visitor, the capital of Belarus seems normal. People look content, streets are clean and orderly, and cafés ring with lively and frank exchanges.
  • EU 2010: A programme for reform
    Policy brief by Charles Grant, Hugo Brady, , Simon Tilford, 03 February 2006

    The European Union is suffering from a profound malaise. There have been difficult times in the past – such as the 'empty chair' left by General de Gaulle in the mid-1960s, the rows over the British budget contribution in the early 1980s, and the struggles to ratify the Maastricht treaty and preserve the Exchange Rate Mechanism in the early 1990s.