The Federal Trust regularly publishes short Briefing Papers, which often focus on current political and constitutional developments in the European Union. In particular, those papers published as part of the European Policy Briefs series assess and analyse major controversies in the British debate about Europe. You will find our latest [...]
Working Group Report, July 2006: Enhancing Institutional Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reflections on Trends in Kenya, Ghana and Senegal
Saving Doha: A Call For Leadership And Momentum In The World Trade Negotiations: A Working Group project In October 2006, the Federal Trust and Chatham House convened a high-level WTO Working Group under the chairmanship of Peter Sutherland, former Director General of the WTO.The group's aims are to consider the [...]
Disputes over the definition and objectives of Global Governance have long been an issue of debate between practitioners and academics. recognizing the increasing interdependence of nation states, some view global governance as the formal and informal political interaction of transnational actors in the absence of world government , whilst others [...]
British Foreign Policy - Not in Our Name? This "Parliamentary Oversight Project" was a project jointly undertaken by the Federal Trust together with its partner organisations, One World Trust and Democratic Audit, and was funded by the Josph Rowntree Charitable Trust. It ran from 2005 to 2007, examining the role [...]
The British Exception: myth or reality? The British Exception: myth or reality? was a series of conferences in 2008 and 2009, culminating in a book, examining the claim sometimes made by commentators that the United Kingdom is intrinsically different in its interests and structures to the other member states of [...]
In 2010 - 11 the Federal Trust, in conjunction with the Global Policy Institute and with co-funding provided by the European Commission Representation in the UK, organised a series of conferences entitled A new British Government - A new British role in Europe? The objective of these conferences was to [...]
With the aim of identifying constructive ways to develop European prosperity, the Federal Trust, the Industry Forum and the Global Policy Institute, financially supported by the European Commission Representation in London, have been running thoughout 2012 a project entitled “Getting Europe Moving Together.” Its aim was to review a range [...]
The Federal Trust, together with its partner Global Policy Institute at London Metropolitan University, has received funding from the European Commission Representation in the UK to undertake this new project, which will explore the impact of the UK Coalition Government's European policy on Britain's relations with the EU, and in [...]
THREE CHEERS FOR EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY A Personal View from Brendan Donnelly, June 2014 If Jean-Claude Juncker becomes the next President of the European Commission, it will mark an important development in the democratic life of the European Union. Millions of voters in the recent European Elections will see their favoured [...]
