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  • Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?
    Insight by Charles Grant, 10 June 2013
    Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?
  • The EU's Rubik's cube: Who will lead after 2014?
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 03 April 2013
    The EU's Rubik's cube: Who will lead after 2014?
  • Germany’s plans for treaty change – and what they mean for Britain
    Insight by Charles Grant, 28 March 2013
    Germany & Treaty change
  • Continuity and change in Germany's EU policy
    Insight by Charles Grant, 06 September 2013

    Germany's EU policy is shifting. It will seek a 'grand bargain' with France but be tougher on the Commission. Treaty change is moving off the agenda.

  • What is wrong with the European Commission?
    Insight by Charles Grant, 27 June 2013

    The Commission should be strong and independent. But as it becomes dependent on the European Parliament, it is losing the respect of national capitals.

  • Can national parliaments make the EU more legitimate?
    Insight by Charles Grant, 10 June 2013

    The euro crisis has hit the EU's legitimacy. Part of the answer is to give national parliamentarians a bigger role in the EU.

  • How to reduce the EU's democratic deficit
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 10 June 2013

    The European Union has long suffered from a lack of legitimacy, but the euro crisis has worsened the problem. There is no silver bullet that can suddenly make the EU respected, admired or even popular among many Europeans.

  • The EU's Court of Auditors: Europe's sleeping giant?
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 28 May 2013

    Veteran EU watchers consider the Union's budget as unreformable: a ritualistic doling out of public money into the pockets of farmers, MEP's expense accounts and the salaries of EU officials.

  • The EU's Rubik's cube: Who will lead after 2014?
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 03 April 2013

    The EU will appoint new leaders after the 2014 European elections. Who are the likely candidates and are they suitable?

  • The Brussels backroom deal that will live in infamy
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    Carnegie Europe, 01 April 2013

    The decision to establish a third official seat of the European Parliament (EP) in Dresden, quietly announced on Friday afternoon, when most observers and journalists had already left Brussels to head home for Easter, is a classic example of EU horse-trading. It is also epitomises everything that is wrong with Brussels.

  • Germany’s plans for treaty change – and what they mean for Britain
    Insight by Charles Grant, 28 March 2013

    Germany is no longer pushing for a new EU treaty. This makes it harder for David Cameron to renegotiate the terms of British membership.

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