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Parliament

It's my party and I'll leave if I want to You need an active subscription to read this article

A study of political families in Europe finds national parties reluctant to surrender power.
Thursday, 25 September 2008

Africa

Europe's southern challenges You need an active subscription to read this article

The Mediterranean region continues to provide the EU with threats and opportunities.
Thursday, 25 September 2008

Management

How Europe brought the euro to life You need an active subscription to read this article

The father of the European Central Bank's monetary policy pulls back the curtains, a little.
Thursday, 25 September 2008

Enlargement

EU's powerlessness runs deep and wide You need an active subscription to read this article

An uncomfortable suggestion that the EU is inherently ill-suited to resolving conflicts.
Thursday, 18 September 2008

Enlargement

Books for Europe's wilder beaches

Stuck for reading matter? There's still a chance to grab some new and old central and eastern European classics.
Saturday, 16 August 2008

EU governance

France's European malaise runs deep You need an active subscription to read this article

It will take more than one presidency to reverse the hostility the French now feel towards the EU.
Thursday, 17 July 2008

EU governance

The power of Parliament – a matter of chance You need an active subscription to read this article

The European Parliament has acquired new powers by accident as well as by design, according to its former secretary-general.
Thursday, 19 June 2008

EU governance

The true holder of power in the EU You need an active subscription to read this article

Greater sensitivity to human and institutional dynamics might have improved this study of the influence of the European Council.
Thursday, 12 June 2008

Justice

Crime that pays

Misha Glenny explores the curious set of circumstances that have enabled modern criminals to amass wealth and influence unimaginable to their [...]
Monday, 2 June 2008

Books

Doves and hawks are ostriches in disguise

The key judgments of this week's US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) take up barely two and a half pages but have fundamentally altered the [...]
Thursday, 6 December 2007

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Foreign affairs

An angel and the devil in hell on earth You need an active subscription to read this article

An intrepid war reporter merges a true story of hope amid the horror of Chechnya with some ugly truths about Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Thursday, 15 May 2008

Foreign affairs

Del Ponte's hunt

The memoirs of the UN's former chief war-crimes prosecutor are generating lurid headlines, but its true value lies in what it will tell historians [...]
Monday, 21 April 2008

EU governance

Clear-eyed, not wall-eyed

Stephen Wall, a man with the ear of three UK premiers, by turn attacks and defends British attitudes towards the EU while arguing that the UK can now [...]
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Climate change

Why it's uncool to be ‘greener than thou'

Pointing the finger makes people less likely to act; aviation is unfairly cast as climate villain.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008

Books

Bridge of metaphors

A Dutch historian casts off metaphor as he turns his gaze on to the melancholy procession across Turkey's bridge to Europe.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008

Comment

Sharing in the sorrow of Belgium

The death last week (19 March) of Hugo Claus was awesome in its dramatic timing.
Thursday, 27 March 2008

Comment

The making of Ireland: more luck than management?

Bookshops in Ireland tend to carry a disproportionately large ‘Irish Interest' section: rows of self-approving, sentimental offerings, which will be [...]
Wednesday, 19 March 2008

Comment

Them and us in liberal Dutch society

How was it that one of the EU's most liberal societies began to question multiculturalism?
Thursday, 24 January 2008

Comment

Tales of a band of conspirators

A mix of oral history and archival research offers insights into the Commission's early years, writes Martin Westlake.
Thursday, 13 December 2007

Books

Monsieur Omnipresident is wised up

What goes around comes around. Having managed for seven years to do without one, the European Council is resorting yet again to the tried and tested [...]
Thursday, 13 December 2007

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