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  • Britain should not go Swiss
    Insight by John Springford, 10 July 2012
    Britain should not go Swiss
  • Needed: A Franco-German concordat
    Insight by Charles Grant, 27 June 2012
    Franco-German discord
  • Germany's own goal: Why Berlin's sense of invulnerability will be its undoing
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 22 June 2012
    Germany’s own goal
  • Europe in the US-UK special relationship
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 02 August 2007

    Gordon Brown scarcely mentioned Europe during his visit to the United States, certainly much less than Tony Blair used to. That is understandable.
  • Of mice, men and the language of EU reform
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 18 July 2007

    Beware the humourless, especially in politics. At a CER/Clifford Chance conference last week, Guiliano Amato, Italy’s interior minister, pronounced that the Reform Treaty was a return to familiar territory for the EU: an unreadable treaty.
  • Portugal's presidency
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch, 09 July 2007

    On 1 July 2007, Portugal took over the EU's rotating presidency from Germany. Angela Merkel's six months at the helm will be a tough act to follow.
  • Why Europeans don’t have babies
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 June 2007

    Europeans live longer, work less and have fewer babies. On current trends, the EU will not have enough workers to pay for its growing number of pensioners.
  • What the summit says about the EU
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 26 June 2007

    At 4.30am on Saturday 23rd June, after 36 hours of wrangling, EU leaders agreed on a deal to revive parts of the failed EU constitutional treaty.
  • State of the Union: The good deal
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Wall Street Journal, 25 June 2007

    The deal in Brussels on a new treaty this weekend is good news for those who hope the EU can become a more confident and effective contributor to global security.
  • What do you do with a problem like Poland?
    Insight by Paweł Świeboda, 21 June 2007

    Behind the scenes, Angela Merkel has striven to get agreement on a mandate for treaty change ahead of this week’s EU summit. She has by now dealt with concerns of most of the key players in the debate – France, the Netherlands and the UK.
  • G8 and world politics
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 11 June 2007

    Angela Merkel can be content with the outcome of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm which she chaired with her by now characteristic mix of modesty, determination and pragmatism.