A British Agenda for Europe: Designing Our Own Future

A Chatham House Commission Report
Commission on Europe after Fifty: Policy Implications for Britain, September 2008

This major new report on Britain's role in Europe is published by the Chatham House Commission on Europe after Fifty: Policy Implications for Britain, chaired by Sir Stephen Wall.

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 than to 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.