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  • 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
  • Saving Schengen: How to protect passport-free travel in Europe
    Report by Hugo Brady, 20 January 2012
    Saving Schengen: How to protect passport-free travel in Europe
  • Can the EU achieve an area of freedom, security and justice?
    Briefing note by Adam Townsend, 03 October 2003

    In 1997 the EU member-states committed themselves to constructing an 'area of freedom, security and justice' – a task at least as ambitious as the creation of the single market.

  • Guarding Europe
    Working paper by Adam Townsend, 02 May 2003

    The European Union needs to build an effective security framework to stop criminals and terrorists from roaming freely across its internal borders.
  • Justice and home affairs: Faster decisons, secure rights
    Policy brief by Heather Grabbe, 04 October 2002

    Justice and home affairs (JHA) has become the EU’s most active policy area, but one of its least known or understood. It now accounts for about 40 per cent of the EU’s new legislation.
  • New designs for Europe
    Report by Charles Grant, Katinka Barysch, 04 October 2002

    Everybody agrees that the EU's institutions are in bad need of reform. In the Convention on the Future of Europe, and elsewhere, a real debate has begun on how Europe should be governed.
  • Europe must tackle asylum
    Bulletin article by Ben Hall, 01 October 2001

    Television images of migrants walking unabashed into the Channel Tunnel are a stark reminder of the fact that Britain is no longer an island.
  • Speeding up European justice
    Bulletin article by Matthew Heim, 01 August 2001

    The European Union's legal system is one of the most significant contributors to European cohesion, prosperity and peace; yet it is also one of the Union's least recognised strengths.
  • Policing Europe: EU justice and home affairs co-operation
    Report by Ben Hall, Ashish Bhatt , 01 October 1999

    Most observers of the European Union see the single currency as the principal driving force of European integration in the coming decade.
  • A single market in crime
    Bulletin article by Ben Hall, 02 August 1999

    Crime is becoming increasingly international, and it is a big business. A recent United Nations report estimates that the global turnover of criminal organisations amounts to some £1,000 billion a year, considerably larger than the gross domestic product of Britain.