EU legitimacyEU's Rubik's cubeGermany & the EU
  • 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
  • Europe's parliament: Reform or perish?
    Essay by Denis MacShane, 04 April 2011

    National MPs feel less and less in control of decisions taken in Europe. Yet they are expected to defend these decisions with the same vigour as the national laws they vote for themselves.

  • European political parties are the key to EU legitimacy
    Bulletin article by Sir Julian Priestley, 01 February 2011

    The European Parliament sometimes exasperates its friends. MEPs have made the wrong calls on some policy questions and they delayed reforming their malfunctioning pay and allowances system until the creation of a harmonised salary scheme in 2009.

  • Beyond the European Parliament: Rethinking the EU's democratic legitimacy
    Essay by Anand Menon, John Peet, 21 December 2010

    The European Parliament plays a crucial role in the EU's legislative process, but is little loved in many parts of the EU. Even if all MEPs became wise, hard-working and responsible, the Parliament would still find it hard to claim a proper democratic mandate.

  • The rise of the Euro-punks
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 22 October 2010

    Recently I attended an off-the-record Brussels “think-in” where a very prominent European politician wondered out loud what the future would be for the EU now that his children’s generation were taking the reins.
  • EU JHA co-operation: After Lisbon, reality bites
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 24 June 2010

    EU policies on policing, justice and immigration were widely expected to take a big leap forward after the ratification of the Lisbon treaty.
  • Eurozone governance: Why the Commission is right
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 04 June 2010

    The collapse of market confidence sparked by the parlous state of Greece’s public finances is forcing the EU to review how the eurozone is run. This is entirely welcome.
  • Le G20 a manqué une chance de réformer la finance
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    La Tribune, 24 April 2010

    Vendredi après-midi, ministres des Finances et banquiers centraux des pays riches et émergents du G20 se sont réunis à Washington pour discuter des projets de régulation du secteur financier.

  • Does the EU need a public prosecutor?
    Bulletin article by Hugo Brady, 01 February 2010

    Viviane Reding, the EU's new justice commissioner, wants to begin her term with a bang by setting up the office of a European public prosecutor (EPP).