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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
  • New designs for Europe
    Report by Charles Grant, Katinka Barysch, 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.
  • Playing the European game
    Bulletin article by Antonio Missiroli, 03 June 2002

    Football is the most European, and simultaneously, the most global of sports. The British Empire spread the game throughout Europe, and then worldwide.
  • Germany and Britain: An alliance of necessity
    Report by Heather Grabbe, Wolfgang Münchau, 04 February 2002

    Europe needs Germany and the UK to form an alliance. These two countries are closer than they have been for a generation on many vital issues.
  • Europe after September 11th
    Report by Charles Grant, 07 December 2001

    This report argues that many good things have come out of the crisis, so far. The US is re-engaging with the world. The European Union has accelerated its plans to integrate in the fields of external and internal security.
  • France, Germany and "hard-core" Europe
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 August 2001

    In Paris, thinking on the future of the EU tends to focus on two French worries. One is the decline of the Franco-German relationship, and the consequent threat to French influence.
  • Turning East: Europe Courts Asia
    Bulletin article by Edward Bannerman, 01 February 2001

    The United States has long cast its shadow over the formal meetings of Asian and European ministers. "How will this play in Washington?" was the unspoken caveat to the normally unexciting conclusions of most Asian-Europe Meetings (ASEM).
  • The unholiest of alliances
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 December 2000

    Yes, there really are some people who believe in a federal super-state. They want the EU to evolve into something like the USA, with a strong central government responsible to the European Parliament.
  • EU2010: An optimistic view of the future
    Report by Charles Grant, 01 September 2000

    The European Union's principal task in the first decades of the 21st century is to spread peace, stability, security and prosperity to the entire European continent. The chief mechanism for achieving this end is the enlargement of the Union.