EU legitimacyEU's Rubik's cubeGermany & the EU
  • Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?
    Insight by Charles Grant, 10 June 2013
    Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?
  • The EU's Rubik's cube: Who will lead after 2014?
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 03 April 2013
    The EU's Rubik's cube: Who will lead after 2014?
  • Germany’s plans for treaty change – and what they mean for Britain
    Insight by Charles Grant, 28 March 2013
    Germany & Treaty change
  • EU should duplicate NATO assets
    Bulletin article by Kori Schake, 01 June 2001

    Many American policy-makers are worried that the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) could undermine NATO and damage the transatlantic relationship.
  • US missile defence: Strategically sound, politically questionable
    Working paper by Bruno Tertrais, 06 April 2001

    In Europe, both governments and the broad spread of public opinion have been largely sceptical about, or opposed to, missile defence.
  • Europe's military revolution
    Report by Charles Grant, 02 March 2001

    The creation of the single European currency, a revolutionary innovation for the European Union (EU), has provoked tumultuous debate across the continent and beyond. Yet the EU's plans for a common defence policy have - thus far - attracted less attention.
  • Unilateral America? Lightweight Europe? Managing divergence in transatlantic foreign policy
    Working paper by Steven Everts, 02 February 2001

    The election of George W Bush as the new US President has caused uneasiness in Europe, both at the level of individual states and that of the European Union (EU).
  • European defence: The next steps
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 October 2000

    Last year, the Kosovo air war highlighted the impotence of Europe's armed forces.The Americans provided more than three-quarters of the bombs dropped, and most of the advanced communications equipment.
  • Europe's military ambitions
    Bulletin article by Klaus Naumann, 01 June 2000

    The European Union's 'Headline Goal', agreed at the Helsinki Summit in December 1999, calls for the creation of a 60,000-strong rapid-reaction force by 2003. Turning that goal into reality is extremely difficult.
  • Pooling forces
    Bulletin article by Tim Garden, John Roper, 01 December 1999

    After many years of talking about boosting their defence capabilities but doing very little, the Europeans have made substantial progress in 1999. European governments have begun to develop the defence dimension of their common foreign and security policy.
  • European defence post-Kosovo
    Working paper by Charles Grant, 04 June 1999

    European Union has long talked about building a defence capability, but done very little about it. In the first week of June 1999, however, two events gave a boost to the EU’s military aspirations. At the Cologne summit EU leaders agreed on a scheme that would enable the EU to deploy military force.