Saving SchengenThe EU & migrationSchengen area
  • Saving Schengen: How to protect passport-free travel in Europe
    Report by Hugo Brady, 20 January 2012
    Saving Schengen: How to protect passport-free travel in Europe
  • The EU and migration: A call for action
    Essay by Charles Clarke, 01 December 2011
    The EU and migration: A call for action
  • Britain, Ireland and Schengen: Time for a smarter bargain on visas
    Essay by Michael Emerson, 28 July 2011
    Britain, Ireland and Schengen
  • Farewell, Polish plumber
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 07 August 2008

    When the EU expanded its membership in 2004, the UK was one of only three EU countries – Ireland and Sweden were the others – fully to open its borders to migrants from the ten new member states.
  • The new politics of EU internal security
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 28 March 2008

    EU interior ministers are racing to finish a raft of new legislation on terrorism, crime and illegal immigration by the end of the year. One reason for their sudden sense of urgency is politics.
  • EU migration policy: An A-Z
    Essay by Hugo Brady, 01 February 2008

    More and more people want to come to Europe to live and work. This is a welcome development, given Europe's ageing population. But increasing migration poses big challenges for EU governments.

  • Wanted: An EU migration policy
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 04 January 2008

    With the European Commission pushing its blue card work permit scheme and France calling for an EU pact on migration, Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform asks whether the Union is - at last - about to move beyond rhetoric to action.
  • Why Europeans don’t have babies
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 June 2007

    Europeans live longer, work less and have fewer babies. On current trends, the EU will not have enough workers to pay for its growing number of pensioners.
  • Schengen should go west as well as east
    Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 01 February 2007

    EU governments spent last year arguing over the extension of Europe’s passport-free travel zone – the so-called Schengen area – to the countries that joined in 2004.
  • The Tories and human trafficking: Don’t play politics
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 09 January 2007

    The British Conservative party kicked off the New Year saying they wanted to sign Britain up to a 2005 European convention that grants rights to the victims of human trafficking.
  • Europe's crime without frontiers
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    The Yorkshire Post, 21 June 2006

    Europol, the European Union's police office, has warned governments of a clear and present threat from transnational gangs trafficking in arms, drugs and people; as well as running counterfeiting and money-laundering rackets.