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
  • Britain and France must pool parts of their defence
    Bulletin article by Edgar Buckley, 01 August 2006

    In European Union defence, Britain and France spend the most money (45 per cent of the total), maintain the largest and most effective expeditionary forces, run the biggest defence industries and manage the most important research facilities.
  • Adieu, Europe?
    Opinion piece by
    Open democracy, 29 June 2006

    The machinery of the European Union has recovered from the shock of the failed French and Dutch referenda, but not the heart that pumps it, says Aurore Wanlin.
  • Sluggish EU 'Lisbon Agenda' bodes ill for modernisation
    Opinion piece by Aurore Wanlin
    European Affairs, 01 June 2006

    Europe has gotten off to a bad start in 2006 with a fresh battering of the 'Lisbon agenda.' Protectionism is on the rise across the European Union.
  • Western European politicians should stop exploiting populist fears of low-wage competition
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    European Voice, 26 January 2006

    Germany's new Finance Minister, Peer Steinbrück, revived an idea that was first mooted in 2004 by the then chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy: to cut EU regional aid to new member-states that engaged in 'tax dumping'.
  • The Austrian EU presidency and the future of the constitutional treaty
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch, 24 January 2006

    Austrians heaved a sigh of relief when the UK presidency brokered a last-minute deal on the EU budget in December 2005. The Austrian government hoped that the agreement would free its hands to focus on more rewarding issues during its presidency.
  • India tilts to the west as the world's new poles emerge
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 12 January 2006

    Nothing is permanent in history, including America's domination of the global economic and political systems. Assuming China and India keep growing at their current rates, the unipolar world of recent years - topped by the US - will be replaced by a multipolar world within a few decades.
  • "Son problème, c'est l'Allemagne"
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Liberation.fr, 10 January 2006

    Le Britannique Charles Grant, directeur du Centre pour la réforme européenne, à Londres, analyse les chances du président français de sortir l'Europe de sa crise institutionnelle.Jacques Chirac est-il crédible quand il propose de relancer l'Europe ?
  • The real crisis for Europe
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Newsweek, 10 October 2005

    So, is Turkey to start membership talks with the European Union? The reception could hardly be more hostile. As the public sees it, the EU is big enough already. Political leaders from France's Nicolas Sarkozy to Germany's Angela Merkel are opposed.