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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
  • A French lesson for Europe? A guide to the referenda on the EU constitutional treaty
    Briefing note by Daniel Keohane, 01 April 2005

    On 29 May 2005 France will hold the second of ten national referenda on the EU constitutional treaty. The 25 EU governments have until November 2006 to ratify the treaty.
  • Europe: the new superpower
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    The Irish Times, 18 February 2005

    The world that emerges in this century will not be centred on the US or the UN, but will comprise a community of regional clubs led by the Europeans, writes Mark Leonard in London.
  • Get your coat Mr Blair – you've just been asked to leave the EU
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    European Voice, 17 February 2005

    There are a host of ifs and buts. But the UK might, just might, be asked to leave the European Union if British voters reject the constitution, warns Charles Grant What if current opinion polls are a good guide to voting intentions in the ten member states that will hold referenda on the EU’s constitutional treaty?
  • Will the French vote 'Non'
    Bulletin article by Aurore Wanlin , 01 February 2005

    President Jacques Chirac recently declared that the French referendum on the EU's constitutional treaty would take place "before the summer", and not in the second half of 2005 as previously planned.
  • Why Tony needs help from a Tory
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    New Statesman, 09 September 2004

    Each man kills the thing he loves - and so it could be with Tony Blair and Europe. For ten years the Prime Minister has promised to "settle" Britain's ambivalent relationship with the EU.
  • Mighty Europe
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    The Wall Street Journal, 05 February 2004

    London, Paris and Berlin are working hard to put the past behind them. After a year that began with bitter rancor over Iraq and ended with the collapse of negotiations over the European constitution, the desire of pro-Europeans to face the future is understandable.  
  • Poland: the EU's new awkward partner
    Bulletin article by Heather Grabbe, 02 February 2004

    As a former member of Poland's communist Politburo, Leszek Miller has little in common with Margaret Thatcher or John Major. But the Polish prime minister has adopted very similar negotiating tactics in the EU.
  • The return of Franco-German dominance?
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 03 February 2003

    The Franco-German alliance has provided both stability and momentum to the European Union, for most of its history. But by the time that François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl left the scene, the EU's 'motor' had more or less broken down.