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If recent polls are anything to go by, Italy's general election on 13-14 April will produce a centre-right majority and hand Silvio Berlusconi a [...]
Thursday, 3 April 2008
As Nicolas Sarkozy began a state visit to the UK yesterday (26 March), European curiosity about its purpose – and likely effects – extended to more [...]
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Why Markos Kyprianou's departure is important.
Thursday, 6 March 2008
To connoisseurs of financial euphemism, the RosUkrEnergo website is without peer. A company that appears to own no reserves or pipelines made a [...]
Thursday, 21 February 2008
The UN has just added three financiers to its terrorism list for providing financial support to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. This would be [...]
Thursday, 14 February 2008
The year began with Orange Revolution pasionaria Yulia Tymoshenko triumphantly restored as prime minister. She is still popularly referred to [...]
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Another sticky budget, and clean hands all around yet again.
Thursday, 14 February 2008
US policymakers are now rushing to stimulate the economy in order to avoid a recession. The Federal Reserve has dramatically lowered its interest [...]
Thursday, 7 February 2008
What follows is a true story.
Thursday, 7 February 2008
Russia longs to join the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a club of mainly old rich countries that is [...]
Thursday, 20 December 2007
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EditorialsIt would be nice to think that the harassment of the British Council by the Russian authorities would prompt a united, imaginative European response. [...]
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Two states wedged between Europe and Iran are locked in an arms race and preparing for war. The international community, particularly the EU, might [...]
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Rather than the usual winter decision to turn off the gas taps to Ukraine or Belarus, Gazprom kicked off 2008 with the announcement that it was [...]
Thursday, 31 January 2008
The EU will next week (28 January) launch its second EU Sustainable Energy Week, with experts, politicians and inventors coming together in Brussels [...]
Thursday, 24 January 2008
The European Commission yesterday (23 January) unveiled a package of draft laws which, if approved by member states, will lead to major energy and [...]
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Rumours strongly suggest that the US economy is stalling. Adherents to the mimetism school are already predicting a recession in Europe while others [...]
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Gordon Brown has found it difficult to emulate his predecessor Tony Blair in many respects since taking over as UK prime minister in June last year. [...]
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Choosing a ‘Man of the Year' is a risky business and writing about him even more so.
Thursday, 10 January 2008
According to preliminary results of the Georgian presidential election, embattled President Mikheil Saakashvili last weekend (6 January)?won [...]
Thursday, 10 January 2008
The Slovenian government has taken on the presidency of the EU with a mixture of cautiousness and sensitivity, both of which are justified.
Thursday, 10 January 2008