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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
  • Marine Le Pen and the rise of populism
    Insight by Charles Grant, 20 July 2011

    Marine Le Pen's anti-EU populism resonates in much of northern Europe. Debating the CER's director, Charles Grant, she claimed she was neither left nor right.
  • European leaders must step up their game
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 11 July 2011

    George Soros is right that Germany's new approach to Europe bears some responsibility for the eurozone crisis. Germany's leaders are finding it hard to consider broader European rather than immediate national interests.

  • Germany's brief moment in the sun
    Essay by Simon Tilford, 27 June 2011

    Four years ago, Germany was widely seen as the sick man of Europe, beset by weak economic growth, a fast-ageing population and a pervasive sense of angst about the future.
  • Ireland’s election and the EU: From poster child to enfant terrible?
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 28 January 2011

    Ireland will elect a new government on February 25th to replace a discredited administration loathed by most Irish voters. At first sight, it seems unlikely the election will re-open the fundamentals of a bail-out agreed with fellow eurozone members and the IMF last November.

  • Can Greece be saved?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 20 January 2011

    Will Greece have to restructure its debt? Among most West European economists and investors, this now seems to be a foregone conclusion.
  • The 'new' Poland and its neighbours
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 29 November 2010

    Poland is shedding its 'new member-state' image and is instead trying to join the exclusive club of big EU countries. It is a laudable and so far largely successful goal, but not one without risks.
  • The price of German leadership
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 17 November 2010

    The euro, the European Union’s boldest and most ambitious project, is under threat. Divisions among Europe’s leaders, and their inability to stabilise the euro, have damaged the EU’s reputation on other continents. The good news is that the EU now has an emerging leader.

  • Why Germany is not a model for Europe
    Opinion piece by Philip Whyte
    Der Tagesspiel, 10 November 2010

    Germany's economy has been winning numerous plaudits of late. It is not hard to see why. Previously much-vaunted economies "Ireland, Spain, the UK and the US, to name just four" lived way beyond their means for far too long.