• 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bulletin article by Heather Grabbe, 01 June 2004

    Readers of best-selling British newspapers must have the strong impression that the EU's eastward enlargement is primarily about migration.

  • Bulletin article by Mónica Roma, 01 June 2004

    Many people in Britain dislike the EU's new constitutional treaty. Some business leaders and journalists even claim that the charter of fundamental rights - seemingly the most harmless part of the new treaty - will have serious and sinister consequences.

  • Briefing note by Adam Townsend, 03 October 2003

    In 1997 the EU member-states committed themselves to constructing an 'area of freedom, security and justice' – a task at least as ambitious as the creation of the single market.

  • Policy brief by Heather Grabbe, 04 October 2002

    Justice and home affairs (JHA) has become the EU’s most active policy area, but one of its least known or understood. It now accounts for about 40 per cent of the EU’s new legislation.