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
  • A 'smart growth' strategy for sustainable development
    Briefing note by Iain Begg, 01 November 2005

    Amid the insults and recriminations which followed the collapse of the EU budget negotiations last June, few people noticed that EU leaders succeeded in reaching agreement on a new sustainable development strategy.
  • CAP reform can reshape the EU budget
    Bulletin article by Lord Haskins , 03 October 2005

    France and Britain appear irreconcilably divided over the future of the EU budget. But the arguments posed by both countries in support of their contrasting positions are flawed.
  • The EU budget: A way forward
    Policy brief by John Peet is Europe editor of The Economist., 01 September 2005

    Many of the bitterest arguments in the European Union have been about money. That is partly because the budget is inherently a zero-sum game: more for one country means less for others.
  • A bad European dream
    Bulletin article by Daniel Keohane, 01 August 2005

    On a grey Thursday morning in June 2006, Lee Barker, a 29-year-old Midlands businessman, was packing his bags to go to Germany.
  • Staring into the abyss
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    E!Sharp, 01 July 2005

    Twenty years of progress towards a united Europe have come to an end with the French and Dutch votes against the constitution, with future expansion of the EU likely to be the biggest casualty, argues Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform.
  • When the dust settles
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray , 03 June 2005

    The French and Dutch rejections of the constitutional treaty throw into stark relief the divisions between two groups of EU countries. On one side are countries - including Britain, Ireland, the Nordic three plus the majority of the new member-states - who (crudely put) favour a more economically liberal and diverse European Union.
  • European democracy: Where now?
    Opinion piece by Aurore Wanlin
    Open democracy, 02 June 2005

    The rejection by French and Dutch voters of the treaty establishing a European constitution has precipitated one of the deepest crises in the European Union's fifty-year history.
  • The June European Council: Fear and loathing in Brussels?
    Briefing note by Hugo Brady, 01 June 2005

    The French and Dutch No votes on the EU constitutional treaty have rocked Europe's political establishment. The EU's heads of government will debate the future of the document at their summit – and the equally fractious issue of the EU's budget – in Brussels on 16 June 2005.