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  • How the EU can help Kerry with Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 07 August 2013
    How the EU can help Kerry with Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
  • Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
    Insight by Charles Grant, 02 August 2013
    Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
  • Edward Snowden's '1984'
    Bulletin article by Ian Bond, 24 July 2013
    Edward Snowden's '1984'
  • 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.
  • Europe and Russia's continental rift
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Time Europe, 13 July 2009

    Russia's economy - until recently one of the fastest growing in Europe - is in dire straits. In the first three months of this year, output fell by 10% compared with a year earlier.
  • Winners and losers in the new geopolitics
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 June 2009

    Both the global economic crisis and the arrival of Barack Obama are transforming the geopolitical landscape. But how exactly is not yet apparent.

  • Obama, Russia and Europe
    Policy brief by Tomas Valasek, 01 June 2009

    On the first glance, Barack Obama has subordinated US foreign policy to the interests of Moscow. He has slowed down NATO enlargement, stopped urging Russia to democratise and hinted that the US might not build missile defence sites in Europe.

  • Por qué pesa poco España?
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    ABC.es, 08 May 2009

    El papel de España en la UE encierra una extraña paradoja. Aunque se trata de uno de los Estados miembros más europeísta, es el que menos influencia tiene de los seis países más grandes. Pero esto no siempre ha sido así.
  • Narrowing the Atlantic: The way forward for EU-US trade and investment
    Report by Philip Whyte, 29 April 2009

    The financial crisis has provoked a dramatic contraction in world trade. With economic activity declining and job losses rising, protectionist pressures are mounting.

  • Obama’s European Scorecard
    Opinion piece by Josef Joffe, Tomas Valasek, Patrick Weil
    The New York Times, 07 April 2009

    Europe’s Kind of GuyJosef JoffeBarack H. Obama is not George W. Bush — that is the difference, and the 44th president has been going to town on it ever since he was inaugurated. In fact, he swept the Europeans off their feet even before the election.
  • Turkey's future lies with Europe
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Guardian, 07 April 2009

    Barack Obama would not have needed to say it. The fact that he is visiting Turkey as part of a European – not a Middle Eastern – tour shows where he thinks Turkey's future lies: in the EU.