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Cover story: A bumpy ride on the right track
Is Germany’s stumbling grand coalition putting the brakes on economic reform just as France under Nicolas Sarkozy steps on the accelerator? Dan O’Brien takes the pulse of the economies at the heart of the eurozone – and finds both healthier than at first glance
Capital E
Philip Stephens makes five predictions about Europe and the world in 2008
Up to the challenge?
As Slovenia becomes the first of the new member states to take on the EU’s rotating presidency, Ljubljana’s State Secretary for European Affairs Janez Lenarcic talks to Simon O’Connor about the hurdles ahead, from Kosovo to the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty
Outside the Box
The British debate on Europe is becoming more poisonous and less sane, writes Anand Menon
Super regulator? Tough call
Having succeeded in capping mobile roaming charges last year, Commissioner Viviane Reding now wants a far-reaching shake-up of the regulation of Europe’s telecoms sector. But many players – including some of her own colleagues – are not convinced. David Gow reports
Donald's pluck
Poland’s new prime minister has ambitious plans to modernise his country, from a radical liberalisation of the economy to a more conciliatory foreign policy. But President Kaczynski could yet frustrate that agenda, as Stefan Wagstyl reports
Russian Revelation
A view on the EU's eastern neighbour by Andrew Osborn
Wanted: an EU migration policy
With the European Commission pushing its blue card work permit scheme and France calling for an EU pact on migration, Hugo Brady asks whether the Union is – at last – about to move beyond rhetoric to action
American Pie
How Washington sees Europe and the world, by Philip Gordon
Labour's long, winding road
Gordon Brown may not be the EU’s most enthusiastic supporter, but then his own party did oppose British membership for over half of the past 50 years. Julian Priestley tracks Labour’s love-hate relationship with Brussels and calls for an end to Britain’s prevarication over Europe
Another Angle
Calls for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty are driven by nothing more than a desire to break the EU, writes Jean Quatremer
Viewpoint: Warming to a new kind of budget
The EU has a unique opportunity in 2008 to re-orientate its budget to mitigate the effects of climate change, argues Stephen Hale
Dawn Raid
An insider's look at the sometimes opaque world of EU competition policy
Taking aim at Europe's guns
As the EU takes steps to tighten gun laws across the continent, Nicola Smith looks at how replica guns designed for self-defence or sport are being converted into deadly weapons and claiming innocent lives
Captain's Table
James Quigley argues that Europe and the US have a unique opportunity to shape a more integrated global marketplace
Brave new Europe
Scars of a painful past, optimism tinged with uncertainty about the future…and wrestling in olive oil. Helena Drakakis speaks to Michael Palin about his recent travels across central and eastern Europe
Euroville
Geoff Meade gets to the bottom of things in the EU capital
