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Part of the Senior European Experts group are:

Mr Graham Avery
Sir Colin Budd
Sir Michael Butler
Lord Robin Butler
Sir Brian Crowe
Sir David Elliott
Sir Michael Franklin
Mr Robert Jackson
Sir Emyr Jones Parry
Lord David Hannay
Lord Michael Jay
Lord John Kerr
Sir Michael Palliser
Sir Stephen Wall
Mr Michael Welsh
Lord David Williamson

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The EU: The First Fifty Years

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Europe and Globalisation

Is Europe a Superstate?

Sovereignty and the EU

The Future Enlargement of the EU

The Lisbon Agenda for Economic Reform

European Economic Models - Arguments by Caricature?

Britain and the EU: Are there alternatives to membership?

The Extent of EU Legislation   NEW!!

The New European Parliament June 2009: Composition and New Powers  NEW!!

The New European Commission 2010-14   NEW!!

The institutions of the EU

Institutional Change

Qualified Majority Voting (QMV)

The Reform Treaty for the European Union

The EU Reform Treaty: A Response to Criticisms

Positive points about the Treaty of Lisbon

The EU beyond the Lisbon Treaty: An agenda for action

The Lisbon Treaty in Practice   NEW!!!

The Future Financing of the EU

Fraud and Accounting in the EU

EU Budget Reform

The EU's Common Foreign & Security Policy and the European Defense & Security Policy

EU's Security Strategy

The European External Action Service, Roadmap for Success

European Neighbourhood Policy 

The EU's Eastern Partnership

Africa NEW!!

The EU & Darfur

Afghanistan

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Iran

Kosovo

Aceh, Indonesia

The Congo

China

Russia

The United States

Turkey

EU's aid to the Palestinians

The EU and "Economic Nationalism"

The EU and the Doha Round

EU External Trade Policy

10 years of euro

The EU’s Role in the Regulation of Financial Services    NEW!!!

EU Competition Policy

Services Directive

The EU and the Global Financial Crisis

Ensuring Financial Stability in the EU:  the Central and Eastern member states

State Aids in the EU and the Economic Crisis

The EU Crime and Justice Policy

The EU and the Fight against Terrorism

Securing the EU's Borders

Immigration and Asylum

Aviation security and the EU

The Stockholm Programme NEW!!

The European Court of Justice  NEW!!

The EU and the Environment

The EU and Climate Change

Boosting the Recycling in the EU: The Waste Directive

The EU and biofuels

Climate change agreement December 2008

The Common Agricultural Policy

The Common Fisheries Policy

Picking and Choosing EU Policies

The EU and Telecommunications NEW!!

The EU and R&D

The EU and Energy Policy

The EU and Health

EU Development Policy

Free movement of people within the European Union   NEW!!

McCain-Obama, a personal contribution to the debate about EU-US, by David Hannay

→ Is Cameron's Turkish delight good for Europe's waistline?, By Petros Fassoulas, Progress, 27/07/10

→ First put the EU in the UK's heart, by Petros Fassoulas, FT, 06/07/10

→ Europe is the key factor, by Charles Austin and Alan Beasley, Dorset Echo, 14/05/10

→ Brussels expects little change from new UK government, interview with Richard Laming, EurActiv, 11/05/10 (full interview Moderate Euroskepsis on EurActiv.de (in German))

→ How will leaders deal with the EU question?, by Petros Fassoulas, Progress, 21/04/10

→ Membership of "powerful" European organisation is vital, by Sarah Leigh, Shoreham Herald, April 2010

→ Tories ought to embrace their proud European tradition, by Sean Schneider, FT, 19/03/10

→ The membership of the EU (scroll down), by Paul Bongers de Rath, Western Gazette, 05/03/10 

→ UKIP MEP tirade, by John Brand, The Scotsman, 26/02/10 

→ Greece is no Trojan Horse for the euro, by Petros Fassoulas, Progress, 22/02/10

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