A British Agenda for Europe: Designing Our Own Future

This 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.

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