Articles and commentaries covering subjects such as the single currency and European monetary union (EMU); Britain's rebate from the EU; trade, regulations on foreign investment, and multinational corporations; the relationship between finance and industry in Britain, and the rise of the City; the Schengen area and the resettlement of asylum seekers and refugees in Britain; Europe and the politics of taxation; the Europol Convention; Labour's education policy; the Bundesbank and German economic policy; Freedom of Information and data protection legislation; scrutiny of EU legislation by the UK Parliament; the ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty; 'popular capitalism', welfare state reforms, and the end of 'Old Labour'; and the European Constitution.