Migrants & BritainSaving SchengenThe EU & migration
  • Central and East European migrants are a boon for Britain
    Bulletin article by John Springford, 25 March 2013
    Central and East European migrants are a boon for Britain
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Where are the Eastern hordes?
    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.
  • Who's afraid of the charter of rights?
    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.
  • Can the EU achieve an area of freedom, security and justice?
    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.

  • Justice and home affairs: Faster decisons, secure rights
    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.