Charles Grant

Charles Grant

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Areas of expertise 

Britain’s relationship with the EU, the ‘future of Europe’ debate, European foreign and defence policy, and China's relations with the West.

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The EU wouldn’t be better off without the UK, but won’t pay any price to keep it

Europe's world
09 October 2014
Signposts from the European elections: A cross-section of views on the choices and priorities thrown up by the mid-year European election results

We can bring change and reform to the EU — abandoning it is not the answer

The Independent
25 September 2014
We urge the UK’s political parties to raise their game in leading, not leaving, Europe.

La probabilité d’une sortie de l’Union du Royaume-Uni a augmenté

Challenges Fr
02 July 2014
Interview avec Charles Grant, directeur du think-tank Centre for european reform, estime que le Royaume-Uni pourrait quitter l'Union européenne.

Cameron is not the only leader who should fear a British exit

Financial Times
26 June 2014
The British leader has time to prevent a calamity of his own making. Unless David Cameron changes course, the prime minister’s plans to reform the EU and persuade the British to vote to stay in it seem likely to fail.

Juncker als Kommissionspräsident: Gefährlicher Griff nach der Macht (with English translation)

Frankfurter Allgemeine
03 June 2014
Das Europaparlament will Jean-Claude Juncker als Kommissionspräsidenten durchdrücken - eine gefährliche Idee! Es würde die Briten aus der EU drängen. Wenn Premierminister Cameron das sagt, klingt das nach Erpressung, aber es ist die Wahrheit. Ein Gastbeitrag.

Belarus is now at risk of losing its independence to Russia

New Statesman
30 April 2014
Most Belarusians have a somewhat weaker sense of identity than Ukrainians but they feel Belarusian rather than Russian.
Returning to Belarus, a flat land of nearly ten million people, after an interval of five years, I found that very little had changed: Alexander Lukashenko remains president (as he has been since...

Cinq européens débattent

Confrontations Europe
31 March 2014
Quel serait le sens d’un nouveau contrat pour reconstruire notre Europe ? Claude Fischer ouvre le débat avec quatre Européens « insoupçonnables » : Charles Grant, directeur du CER(1), Thomas Hanke, journaliste au quotidien Handelsblatt, Andrea Ricci, directeur d’ISIS(2), et Maciej Witucki, président de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie...

L'influence du parlement européen inquiète les Britanniques

La Croix
22 December 2013
"Il n’est pas bon que la Commission européenne soit si impopulaire" Charles Grant, directeur du Centre for European Reform à Londres.

Cameron's European gamble is a losing proposition

Financial Times
17 December 2013
David Cameron has embarked on a bold, possibly reckless, strategy to sort out Britain’s troubled relationship with the EU. He promises that, if re-elected, he will renegotiate membership terms, then hold an in-or-out referendum in 2017.

Building a modern European Union: What's wrong and how to fix it

The GMF
21 November 2013
On Thursday, November 21, 2013, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) hosted a roundtable discussion with Charles Grant, the founder and director of the Centre for European Reform on the current state of the European Union.