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
  • 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.
  • Europe's new political flexibility
    Bulletin article by Steven Everts, 01 August 2000

    First Joschka Fischer and then Jacques Chirac have sought to frame the terms of the debate on the future of the EU. Mr Fischer's "centre of gravity" and Mr Chirac's "pioneer group" are the subject of earnest discussion in think-tanks, foreign ministries and newspaper columns.