Germany & the EUGerman electionsLessons for the UK
  • Germany’s plans for treaty change – and what they mean for Britain
    Insight by Charles Grant, 28 March 2013
    Germany & Treaty change
  • Germany's opposition and the euro crisis
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 26 November 2012
    Germany's opposition and the euro crisis
  • Outsiders on the inside: Swiss and Norwegian lessons for the UK
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 24 September 2012
    Outsiders on the inside: Swiss and Norwegian lessons for the UK
  • The genius of Merkel - Germans love her, Europe loathes her. Why?
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Prospect, 12 December 2012

    Greek newspapers like to portray German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Nazi uniform. The Italian daily Libero has greeted her with a rude Vaffanmerkel! on its cover.
  • Germany's opposition and the euro crisis
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 26 November 2012

    Although Germany’s next general election is not scheduled until October 2013, the campaign started in earnest on 28 September 2012.

  • Can Angela Merkel talk Cameron into being a more flexible ally?
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Guardian, 07 November 2012

    The vexed EU budget is supposed to be the main topic of discussion when Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, meets David Cameron for supper on Wednesday in Downing Street.

  • London to Germany: Now save the euro
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Globalist, 31 October 2012

    Plenty of policy makers and analysts in the United States and the United Kingdom think Germany is destroying the euro. The Germans think they are saving it. Clearly, they both can't be right.

  • A three-tier EU puts single market at risk
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 25 October 2012

    The euro crisis is changing the shape of the EU. As the countries in the eurozone seek to strengthen it by centralising economic policy making, three tiers are emerging within the union.

  • Will the euro crisis lead to the break-up of EU member-states?
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 24 October 2012

    The crisis is fuelling separatism in Spain and Belgium. But elsewhere in Europe separatists do poorly. Scotland's example may yet discourage others from following Catalonia and Flanders.
  • Power struggle: Is Germany's constitution the real bar to the euro rescue?
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Prospect, 17 October 2012

    12th September 2012, 10am in Germany. Bond traders in London and Frankfurt are staring at their screens. Once again, the fate of the eurozone seems to be hanging in the balance.
  • Hollande, los Alemanes y la union politica
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Foreign Policy - En espanol, 16 October 2012

    Antes de convertirse en presidente de Francia, François Hollande no parecía estar muy interesado en la UE. Sin embargo, en su juventud fue un protegido de Jacques Delors, el gran europeo de la izquierda francesa, y su instinto es, en términos generales, europeísta.