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
  • The EU and the fight against organised crime
    Working paper by Hugo Brady, 06 April 2007

    The EU needs to tackle a new threat: international organised crime. Europe's criminal underworld is taking advantage of new opportunities to commit crime that come with the increasing mobility of people, goods and services across national boundaries.
  • Schengen should go west as well as east
    Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 01 February 2007

    EU governments spent last year arguing over the extension of Europe’s passport-free travel zone – the so-called Schengen area – to the countries that joined in 2004.
  • Organised crime and punishment?
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 07 July 2006

    Open borders and new technologies have turned Europe into a land of opportunity for criminal gangs. Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform asks whether the EU is up to the challenge.
  • Europe challenges organised crime
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    G4S International, 02 June 2006

    A new Europol threat assessment will focus efforts to tackle rising gang crime in the EU, writes Hugo Brady of the Centre for European reform.
  • Let justice be done: Punishing crime in the EU
    Policy brief by Hugo Brady, 06 April 2006

    Cross-border crime is on the rise across the European Union. Member-states have committed themselves to fighting this trend by closer co-operation in justice and home affairs (JHA).
  • EU 2010: A programme for reform
    Policy brief by Charles Grant, Hugo Brady, , Simon Tilford, 03 February 2006

    The European Union is suffering from a profound malaise. There have been difficult times in the past – such as the 'empty chair' left by General de Gaulle in the mid-1960s, the rows over the British budget contribution in the early 1980s, and the struggles to ratify the Maastricht treaty and preserve the Exchange Rate Mechanism in the early 1990s.
  • Fighting terrorism: The EU needs a strategy not a shopping list
    Briefing note by Hugo Brady, 11 October 2005

    The fight against international terrorism is a key priority of Britain's EU presidency. Following the July London bombings, the British government is understandably keen to speed up European counter-terrorism efforts.
  • An avant-garde for internal security
    Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 03 October 2005

    Even the most hardened eurosceptic admits the need for closer EU co-operation to fight terrorism, organised crime and illegal immigration. While criminals and terrorists can move easily between EU countries, national policemen cannot.