Shale gasLow-carbon energyEU energy policy
  • Can shale gas transform Europe's energy landscape?
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 10 July 2013
    Can shale gas transform Europe's energy landscape?
  • How to create a single European electricity market - and subsidise renewables
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 26 April 2012
    Low-carbon energy
  • Launch of 'Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy’
    Event, 27 October 2011, London
    Launch of 'Green, safe, cheap' with Charles Hendry MP
  • What to do about Russia?
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 22 October 2006

    Perhaps the most important challenge for EU foreign policy is to develop a more unified approach to Russia. The EU member-states have very similar interests in Russia.
  • Towards an environmental union
    Bulletin article by David Miliband, 02 October 2006

    When I was involved in the creation of CER in 1994 I hoped it would become an important source of ideas and debate about the future of Europe.
  • The EU must do more on climate change
    Bulletin article by Stephen Tindale, 01 February 2006

    The EU, like the rest of the world, faces no greater threat than climate change. There are two – equally bleak – scenarios for Europe if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut quickly and substantially.
  • Energy security: A new agenda for Europe
    Bulletin article by Nick Butler, 01 October 2004

    For almost 50 years, Europe's priority has been to achieve peace and prosperity by strengthening the ties between its nations. The last 20 years in particular have seen Europe focused on the internal challenges of German reunification, enlargement and the establishment of the single currency.
  • Counting the cost of climate change
    Opinion piece by Alasdair Murray
    E!Sharp, 03 September 2004

    Many European businesses are questioning why the EU is prepared to increase costs unilaterally when the benefits of the Kyoto approach to combating climate change appear so limited, writes Alasdair Murray of the Centre for European Reform.
  • The EU-Russia energy dialogue
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, , 09 May 2003

    Russia is the EU's biggest neighbour. The EU is Russia's most important trading partner and source of foreign investment. Yet EU-Russia relations have often suffered from discord over contentious issues such as trade quotas, rules on visas, the Kaliningrad enclave or human rights in Chechnya.
  • Needed: An EU energy tax
    Bulletin article by Nina Marenzi, 02 August 1999

    There is no EU-wide energy tax, despite the fact that green parties now have a strong presence in the European political landscape and that such a tax could make the single market more effective.