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
  • Human rights cannot be a luxury in Afghanistan
    Insight by Joanna Buckley, 07 May 2010

    The Afghans with whom I worked in Bamyan province, Afghanistan, often asked me why foreigners were so concerned about the destruction of historical monuments yet seemingly so indifferent to the human suffering that occurred.

  • The EU must deliver on its commitment to Pakistan
    Bulletin article by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 April 2010

    In April 2010 the EU will hold its second summit with Pakistan. The EU started holding these summits last year, as part of an effort to address security threats stemming from the country, especially the Islamist militants who use it as a safe haven to undermine the allied war effort in Afghanistan, and train suicide bombers to target Europe and the US.
  • Building a European external action service: A difficult birth?
    TGAE report, Report by Hugo Brady, 05 March 2010

    In foreign policy terms, the EU’s global partners often have to deal with the competing external relations bureaucracies of the European Commission, the EU’s Council Secretariat (itself acting separately for both the HR and the six-month EU Presidency) as well as the different diplomatic services of the member states.

  • Can and should the EU and Russia reset their relationship?
    Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 22 February 2010

    Russia's oil-fuelled boom has ended and President Medvedev is calling for radical improvements to the economy. Some EU politicians are tempted to offer Russia a 'modernisation partnership' to re-launch the stalled EU-Russia relationship.

  • Ukraine and the EU: A vicious circle?
    Bulletin article by Tomas Valasek, 01 December 2009

    There is no rule for how a government desiring to join the EU should make its case. But countries that managed to accede in recent years had done so by observing a few simple guidelines: cultivate friends among EU governments, be prepared to make painful sacrifices and, above all, show patience and good faith.
  • Missing another EU opportunity
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    The Guardian, 18 November 2009

    When Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, made clear that he was not interested in being the European Union's new "high representative" for foreign policy, the UK lost a unique opportunity to craft the EU more in its own image.
  • NATO, Russia and European security
    Working paper by Tomas Valasek, 06 November 2009

    Countries in Europe's east and north worry that Moscow is blundering into a confrontation with NATO. They have begun demanding that the alliance start preparing for a possible conflict. But are they right to be concerned?

  • How to make Europe's military work
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 16 August 2009

    The European Union is justly proud of its "soft power" – its prosperity, stability and commitment to multilateral institutions have won admirers the world over.