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 counter-terrorism
    Working paper by Daniel Keohane, 06 May 2005

    Ever since terrorist bombs killed nearly 200 people in Madrid in March 2004, EU politicians have argued for greater European co-operation in fighting terrorism.
  • Who's afraid of the charter of rights?
    Bulletin article by Mónica Roma, 01 June 2004

    Many people in Britain dislike the EU's new constitutional treaty. Some business leaders and journalists even claim that the charter of fundamental rights - seemingly the most harmless part of the new treaty - will have serious and sinister consequences.
  • A European public prosecutor would be a dangerous distraction
    Bulletin article by Mónica Roma, 01 April 2004

    One of the EU's greatest achievements is the abolition of internal border controls, which allow its citizens to move freely from one member-state to another.
  • 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.
  • New designs for Europe
    Report by Charles Grant, , 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.