UK-EU policingUK justice opt-outPolice & justice
  • Could Britain's coalition collapse over EU police co-operation?
    Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 24 May 2013
    Could Britain's coalition collapse over EU police co-operation?
  • Britain's 2014 justice opt-out: Why it bodes ill for Cameron's EU strategy
    Essay by Hugo Brady, 23 January 2013
    Britain's 2014 justice opt-out: Why it bodes ill for Cameron's EU strategy
  • Cameron's European 'own goal': Leaving EU police and justice co-operation
    Policy brief by Hugo Brady, 03 October 2012
    Cameron's European 'own goal': Leaving EU police and justice co-operation
  • Does the EU need a public prosecutor?
    Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 01 February 2010

    Viviane Reding, the EU's new justice commissioner, wants to begin her term with a bang by setting up the office of a European public prosecutor (EPP).

  • Intelligence, emergencies and foreign policy: The EU's role in counter-terrorism
    Essay by Hugo Brady, 01 July 2009

    Many European countries feel threatened by terrorist plots against civilians and infrastructure. European governments have strengthened their efforts to co-operate on counter-terrorism over the past decade.
  • Choices for Europe
    CER - University of Birmingham, Essay by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 May 2009

    Sluggish economic growth, high unemployment, ageing populations, climate change and security challenges on the borders of Europe have been some of the top priorities on the European agenda since the early 1990s. The EU has tried to tackle these issues, notably through its commitments to reduce greenhouse gases and its Lisbon strategy for economic growth.

  • Towards a better EU migration policy
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 08 April 2009

    Over the last decade, EU countries have experienced a rapid rise in both legal and illegal migration, mostly from Turkey, Morocco, Albania, Algeria and Serbia. Each spring and summer, Mediterranean member-states struggle to cope as migrants perish attempting to reach Europe from North Africa in unseaworthy and over-crowded boats.
  • Britain's Schengen dilemma
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 10 February 2009

    Britain supports more EU co-operation against terrorism, crime and illegal immigration and has done so for over a decade. This is because effective justice co-operation has clearly been in the national interest (as with the speedy capture and extradition of one of the 2005 London bombers from Italy to Britain).
  • The new politics of EU internal security
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 28 March 2008

    EU interior ministers are racing to finish a raft of new legislation on terrorism, crime and illegal immigration by the end of the year. One reason for their sudden sense of urgency is politics.
  • EU migration policy: An A-Z
    Essay by Hugo Brady, 01 February 2008

    More and more people want to come to Europe to live and work. This is a welcome development, given Europe's ageing population. But increasing migration poses big challenges for EU governments.

  • Wanted: An EU migration policy
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 04 January 2008

    With the European Commission pushing its blue card work permit scheme and France calling for an EU pact on migration, Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform asks whether the Union is - at last - about to move beyond rhetoric to action.