Europe Inside Out
A regular appraisal of the foreign-policy challenges facing the EU.
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Banks do not trust migrants and, often, the feeling is mutual. European society needs the gap to be bridged.
Friday, 9 January 2009
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A more active role by the UN's secretary-general is one of ways the international community can deepen its engagement with Burma's problems, argues the government-in-exile.
Friday, 9 January 2009
EU member states must withstand protectionist pressures and present a united vision of how to tackle the global recession.
Thursday, 8 January 2009
More family-friendly policies are required if Europe is to avoid a sharp population fall.
Thursday, 8 January 2009
There are five reasons not to expect too much of Barack Obama.
Thursday, 8 January 2009
The world faces many challenges, none more important than climate change. A sense of global solidarity is essential if lasting solutions are to be found.
Thursday, 8 January 2009
The EU is showing signs that it has learnt something from the war in Lebanon in 2006. Here is what it should push for in Gaza.
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Much of what will happen this year will depend on history – the personal histories of an ageing population.
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Radek Sikorski for NATO chief.
Monday, 5 January 2009
How Linz is seizing upon its year as European Capital of Culture.
Saturday, 20 December 2008
Drug companies are producing fewer drugs – and for that heavy taxes and regulation must take some of the blame.
Friday, 19 December 2008
The EU's naval mission to Somalia is, at best, a matter of containment; the EU needs to use its status as an important actor in the area to do more on shore.
Friday, 19 December 2008
Croatia may now seem closer than ever to EU membership but the challenges that remain are old, stubborn ones.
Thursday, 18 December 2008
For reasons of safety as well as security of supply, the EU would be wise to co-operate with Russia on nuclear power.
Thursday, 18 December 2008
Sarkozy has made good on his promise. In doing so, he showed once again that it is member states that set the EU's policy agenda.
Friday, 12 December 2008
Reporters without Frontiers reflects on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Friday, 12 December 2008
In the year since a landmark human-rights case, anti-Roma animus has risen. The Czechs need to show leadership.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
The way ahead begins by not wasting this financial crisis.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Editorial
Thursday, 8 January 2009
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A regular appraisal of the foreign-policy challenges facing the EU.
Ness U. Patria ponders southern habits of culture and politics.
Rein F. Deer explores the quirks of Europe's Nords.
The Economist's central and eastern European correspondent casts his eye towards and over the EU's newer borders.
Letters to the editor
The EU must think again on animal research
Thursday, 8 January 2009
China scores an own goal by cancelling EU-China summit
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Sarkozy's determination was right then, not always
Thursday, 8 January 2009
An open-ended interpretation of globalisation could herald a return to pragmatism and traditional policy goals.
Thursday, 4 December 2008
China views human-rights lectures as neo-imperialist, writes Willy Fautré
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Despite a Czech court's ruling that the Lisbon treaty does not conflict with the country's constitution, a quick ratification should not be expected.
Thursday, 4 December 2008
A former foreign minister argues that the French and Russian presidents are right to advocate a summit on a new security arrangement for Europe.
Monday, 1 December 2008
Depressingly, the EU means less to China as a Union than a single member state, France. Europe needs to make itself matter to China.
Friday, 28 November 2008
The answer is perhaps that the term is pragmatic. And, in Kosovo, that may not be unreasonable.
Friday, 28 November 2008
When you get history wrong, it can skew your own strategic choices.
Friday, 28 November 2008
The EU may soon regret its unwise resistance to reforming the International Money Fund.
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Can the EU can ever cease its debilitating internal bickering?
Thursday, 27 November 2008
As its largest investor, the EU is demanding the same free trade agreement with South Korea that the country has signed with the US.
Thursday, 27 November 2008
