Editorial
Simon O'Connor
Cover story: Walking the tightrope
The EU’s influence on its eastern neighbours depends on it keeping alive their hopes of one day joining the club, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn tells Simon O’Connor
Capital E
Philip Stephens argues Europe should decide what it wants from the transatlantic relationship and what it is prepared to put into it
Right on target?
The Commission’s energy and climate package may be bursting with ambition, but there are questions over the choice of targets – and whether they can ever be reached. Tony Barber reports
Another Angle
Gordon Brown's efforts to stop the EU from becoming a story in the British media continue to backfire, writes Mary Dejevsky
Looking for victory in more normal times
Governing Socialists are confident of winning a second term on March 9, but a cooling economy and low turnout could yet boost the conservative opposition. Leslie Crawford reports
That sinking feeling
Whoever wins Italy’s election on April 13 faces an uphill task to revive its slumbering economy, writes Simon O’Connor
Outside the Box
If EU leaders want an effective president of the European Council they should appoint Tony Blair, argues Anand Menon
Softer Europe: hard work
The European Commission is gearing up for a new drive to boost the EU’s social dimension. But as Andrew Grice reports, it is unlikely to satisfy increasingly Eurosceptic trade unions
Crowning Tsar Dmitri
To say Russia’s new president was cast in the same mould as his predecessor and former boss would be an understatement. But as Andrew Osborn writes, it is too early to judge whether Dmitri Medvedev will emerge from Vladimir Putin’s shadow
American Pie
How Washington sees Europe and the world, by Philip Gordon
A predictable crisis
The handling of the EU’s military mission in the central African state of Chad holds vital lessons for the bloc’s future operations in Africa, as Richard Gowan writes
Viewpoint: A measure of democracy
The EU must understand why voters are disengaging from politics in their home countries before it can effectively tackle its own democratic deficit, argues Paul Skidmore
Dawn Raid
An insider's look at the sometimes opaque world of EU competition policy
Viewpoint: Why Brussels should kick Britain out
The only way for Britons to learn to appreciate life in the EU may be for them to try living outside it, argues Alex Warleigh-Lack
Divorced from reality?
Moves by the European Commission to ease divorce proceedings for international couples face a host of obstacles – both cultural and practical. Nicola Smith reports
Euroville
Geoff Meade gets to the bottom of things in the EU capital
Hidden Europe
Nicky Gardner visits some of the frontier-straddling communities in central Europe reunited by the lifting of border controls last December
