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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
  • The Czechs will probably ratify the Lisbon treaty this year
    Insight by Charles Grant, 02 October 2009

    Any prediction about the timing of the Czech Republic’s ratification of the Lisbon treaty must be heavily qualified; politics in Prague are so complex and opaque that many Czechs find it hard to understand what is going on. 
  • Europe leaves behind the era of treaty change
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 October 2009

    Ireland’s decisive yes to the Lisbon treaty is likely to spur Poland and – after some delay – the Czech Republic to ratify. The Lisbon treaty will probably enter into force early next year, and that is good news for the EU, in three ways.
  • Last chance for Lisbon: Ireland's EU referendum
    Briefing note by Hugo Brady, 22 September 2009

    Ireland will hold a second referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon on October 2nd 2009. Most opinion polls in the run-up to the vote show that a majority of Irish voters now back the EU treaty they rejected in June 2008.

  • Why Barroso deserves another go
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 09 September 2009

    Next week the European parliament votes on whether to give José Manuel Barroso a second term as president of the European commission.
  • Economic liberalism in retreat
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    The New York Times, 16 July 2009

    Is the brief flowering of economic liberalism in Europe over? It is too soon to read the last rites, but the prognosis is not good.The financial crisis, the subsequent discrediting of the Anglo-Saxon economies and the passing of the most economically liberal European Commission there has ever been have put liberal economic thinking on the defensive.
  • The eurosceptic illusion
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    The Guardian, 05 July 2009

    Britain's Eurosceptics need to come clean. The media and political class have a right to be sceptical about the EU, even hostile to it. But they also have an obligation to be honest about the economic implications of a retreat from full membership of the union.
  • The Swedish EU presidency
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, Clara Marina O'Donnell, Hugo Brady, , Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 01 July 2009

    A painful recession in Europe, uncertain prospects for the Lisbon treaty, a looming gas crisis in Ukraine and a lame-duck Commission are some of the challenges that the Swedish EU presidency will have to deal with in the second half of 2009.

  • The Dis-Uniting Kingdom?
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    The Wall Street Journal, 30 June 2009

    Britain's European debate has gone septic. More than half of British votes cast in recent European elections went to euro-skeptic parties ranging from the mad, bad political fringes such as the British National Party to a Conservative Party promising to claw back powers from Brussels.