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A British Agenda for Europe: Designing Our Own Future

Thu, 18 September 2008

The Chatham House Commission on Europe after Fifty, chaired by Sir Stephen Wall, has published a major new report on Britain's role in Europe, launched on 18th September with funding from the Nuffield Foundation.

Its key messages are:

• The sterile debate about Europe is compromising future British prosperity and security
• British thinking on international challenges will evolve closer to its EU partners and away from the US
• British leadership is needed, for example, on energy security, to better handle Russia's dominant position
• The political thinking behind the island mentality that dominates the British debate on domestic security disregards the increasingly mobile nature of 21st century threats.

Download the full report or the Executive Summary from the Chatham House website.

Last Updated Tue, 11 November 2008