Hollande & GermanyPolitical Union EU & corruption
  • Hollande, the Germans and 'political union'
    Insight by Charles Grant, 25 September 2012
    François Hollande
  • Alice in euroland: What political union for the single currency?
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 09 October 2012
    Alice in euroland: What political union for the single currency?
  • The EU must fight corruption and defend the rule of law
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 14 June 2012
    EU & corruption
  • Commissioning reform
    Bulletin article by Ben Hall, 01 October 1999

    For most ordinary members of the public the European Commission is the European Union. The fall of the Santer Commission amidst allegations of corruption and mismanagement plunged the EU into crisis.
  • A golden opportunity for reform
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 August 1999

    It is easy to forget that the Eurosceptical mood of many EU countries is a recent phenomenon. In the late 1980s, when the EU's prime task was the creation of a single market, its popularity grew in every member-state.
  • Europe's emerging political union
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 April 1999

    As many Darwinians believe that evolution has progressed not steadily, but through occasional, sudden spurts. The European Union may be evolving in a similar way.
  • Europe's uncertain identity
    Essay by Gilles Andréani, 05 February 1999

    The launch of the euro is a success of historic proportions. It is also the ultimate vindication of the method first sketched out nearly fifty years ago in the Schuman memorandum.
  • The EU budget: An agenda for reform
    Working paper by John Peet, Kitty Ussher, 05 February 1999

    The nastiest arguments in the European Union, as in any family, are the ones about money. Communautaire sentiment soon evaporates when prime ministers start to haggle over the budget.
  • Give on the rebate to gain elsewhere
    Bulletin article by Kitty Ussher, 01 February 1999

    At their special summit in March, EU leaders are due to settle the Union's finances for the next seven years. The British government is adamant: the budget rebate won by Mrs Thatcher in 1984 is not up for negotiation.
  • Transparency is no panacea?
    Bulletin article by Maurice Fraser, 01 October 1998

    We all want openness and accountability, but let's be clear that they don't guarantee the most effective method of Government.
  • Elect the Commission
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 October 1998

    The European Commission enjoys little legitimacy in the eyes of most Europeans. So long as it is run by appointed politicians it will continue to be seen as a remote and overbearing bureaucracy.