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Calling in the EU-Team

The European External Action Service will be judged on how effectively it responds to unpredictable, potentially explosive crises, writes Richard Gowan

(Web specials05/08/2010

Europe's accession lessons

The principles underpinning EU enlargement could help the EU to address its current travails, writes Blair Glencorse

(Web specials02/08/2010

Taiwan needs a place in the EU's Asia trade strategy

Razeen Sally makes the case for Brussels to fill a key a gap in its plans for liberalising trade with east Asia

(Web specials01/08/2010

Kosovo's next battle

Both the EU's credibility and the viability of the new state depend on the EULEX mission succeeding in rooting out endemic corruption in Kosovo, says Ilinka Iljoska

(Web specials26/07/2010

European anarchy, American insolvency

The EU needs a mechanism for debt restructuring in its member states. It should look to the US for inspiration, says Rabah Ghezali

(Web specials13/07/2010

Banking on society

Other European countries should take note of the innovative funding mechanisms set to energise Britain's non-profit sector, writes Sir Ronald Cohen

(Web specials12/07/2010

Europe's democratic surfeit

The EU should stop trying to make itself more democratic. What it needs instead are enlightened elites capable of inspired leadership, writes Roberto Foa

(Web specials22/06/2010

NATO's Middle Eastern promise

It is high time the Atlantic alliance upgraded its dialogue with the Mediterranean and Gulf states, says Yasmine Abou Mansour

(Web specials10/06/2010

America’s pitiful public diplomacy

Government-led global outreach programmes have long been viewed with suspicion in the United States. Europeans can help to change that, argues Oliver Horn

(Web specials08/06/2010

In defence of Germany

German economic policy has its flaws, but Berlin does not deserve all the blame it is receiving for the euro's current predicament, writes Fredrik Erixon

(Web specials31/05/2010

Why Cathy needs a good crisis

Catherine Ashton will be judged on how she responds to her first international emergency, writes Richard Gowan

(Web specials25/05/2010

Welfare and the States

In the wake of America's healthcare reform, Rabah Ghezali explores the reasons for the transatlantic divide over government's role in protecting the needy

(Web specials14/05/2010

Clameronism (2010-2014)

An extract from A Thousand Years of History: Britain in Europe 1066-2066, Oxford University Press, 2070, by Hugo Brady

(Web specials27/04/2010

Cameron's false choice

By choosing Atlanticism over Europeanism, a Conservative government would in fact undermine Britain's ability to be an effective ally of the United States, writes John Podesta

(Web specials27/04/2010

Time to trade in the CAP?

Europe's agricultural policies have become an anachronism, but hard economics may mean reform is at last in the offing, argues Valentin Zahrnt

(Web specials14/04/2010


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