Research
How to pull the eurozone out of the mire
26 September 2014
To free the eurozone, public investment, tax cuts and monetary stimulus are needed.
Issue 98 - 2014
26 September 2014
- Juncker and his college: The unexpected reformer?, Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
- How to pull the eurozone out of the mire, Christian Odendahl, John Springford
- No easy choices: Realpolitik in Mesopotamia, Rem Korteweg
Juncker and his college: The unexpected reformer?
26 September 2014
Few believed that Juncker would champion changes in the way the EU does things.
No easy choices: Realpolitik in Mesopotamia
26 September 2014
To fight ISIS, the West will have to engage with its friends in the region, and its foes.
How Brussels' medicine is killing the 'French patient'
24 September 2014
France is not yet the 'sick man of Europe', but it is ailing thanks to swallowing too much bad medicine prescribed by Brussels and Berlin.
International climate negotiations should focus on money, not targets
17 September 2014
The G20 should implement its 2009 pledge to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, and give the money instead to the Green Climate Fund.
A UK without Scotland
12 September 2014
If the Scots vote to leave the United Kingdom, what is left of it will be more likely to leave the EU.
The challenge to the West: Restoring European deterrence
03 September 2014
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, deterrence in Europe has broken down. The EU and NATO must show resolve if they are to restore it.
Learning from Herman: A handbook for the European Council president
21 August 2014
Van Rompuy needs to forge a consensus on his successor. He should look in the mirror and seek a candidate with his own best characteristics.
Boris Johnson, Gerard Lyons and policy-based evidence making
11 August 2014
Conservatives say that leaving the EU would be better than the status quo, but where is the evidence?
Dealing with Russia: Law, jaw and war
08 August 2014
The EU should be ready to take more steps against Russia, and help defend Ukraine – but also talk directly to Putin to try to change his mind.
EU enlargement
31 July 2014
A number of member-states are unenthusiastic about further EU enlargement, but has the EU grown as much as it is going to?
Issue 97 - 2014
29 July 2014
- An open letter to David Cameron, Charles Grant
- Three things for NATO to think about, Ian Bond
- The banking union alone cannot bring recovery, Christian Odendahl
An open letter to David Cameron
29 July 2014
David Cameron will have to work hard to detoxify the British brand, if he wants to persuade other member-states to help him reform the EU.
Three things for NATO to think about
29 July 2014
NATO’s summit in September should decide what to do, with whom and how. Russia’s new-style warfare in Ukraine should make the alliance think.
The banking union alone cannot bring recovery
29 July 2014
The banking union is a work in progress but a significant step in the right direction. However, it will not be enough for a proper recovery.
A presence farther east: Can Europe play a strategic role in the Asia-Pacific region?
25 July 2014
Europe should increase its role to promote East Asian security. Its economic interests, transatlantic ties and relations with Asian partners are in jeopardy.
The EU and an independent Scotland
23 July 2014
John Kerr explains why breaking up is hard to do, and why no-one knows how exactly to reconnect an independent Scotland with the EU.
Twelve things everyone should know about the European Court of Justice
22 July 2014
As EU judges prepare to rule on issues like the euro, Facebook and benefit tourism, Hugo Brady gives a political and legal analysis of the ECJ.
Will the eurozone gang up on Britain?
14 July 2014
Britain's eurosceptics and its continental critics agree that the eurozone will push it out of the EU. But eurozone and UK interests are more aligned than opposed.