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Editorial

Simon O'Connor

Second time lucky?

Ireland’s deep economic crisis appears to have shortened the odds on a Yes vote to the Lisbon Treaty this autumn, as Jamie Smyth reports

Capital E

The man tipped to be Britain’s next foreign secretary appears set on undermining his country’s influence, writes Philip Stephens

Unopposed but not unchallenged

Shrewd pragmatist or puppet of Paris and Berlin? As José Manuel Barroso fights to secure a second term as European Commission president, Tony Barber assesses his record in office

Global Eyes

David Rennie asks whether the EU has the legitimacy – or the ability – to act as a global policeman

Battle for the Bundestag

As Germany prepares to elect a new federal government, polls show Chancellor Angela Merkel is more popular than any of her predecessors – and her own Christian Democratic Party. Bertrand Benoit reports

Another Angle

John Monks makes the social case for the EU’s Lisbon Treaty

Getting real with fakes

From luxury brands to cigarettes, toys, money and medicines, the EU is awash with counterfeit goods. Is it a battle the authorities can win? Leo Cendrowicz reports

Labourers lost

Europe’s dole queues are lengthening by the hundreds of thousands – but the picture is not universally bleak. Sean O’Grady reports

New ideas for an old alliance

The United States’ Ambassador to the North Atlantic Council, Ivo Daalder, talks to Simon O’Connor about winning the war in Afghanistan, resetting relations with Russia and rethinking NATO’s purpose and mission

Outside the Box

Forcing Ireland to reconsider the Lisbon Treaty is an embarrassment, argues Anand Menon

After Afghanistan

The Afghan experience will leave Europe’s armed forces drained and in search of a new purpose. As Richard Gowan writes, insufficient political will and empty state coffers will hamper rejuvenation

American Pie

An insider’s view of people and politics in Washington DC by Susan Milligan

Liberty injustice?

With the Swedish presidency aiming to agree a new five-year work plan for justice and home affairs, David Charter asks whether the EU is striking the right balance between freedom and security

Russian Revelation

A view on the EU’s eastern neighbour by Andrew Osborn

The Baltic in a state

The EU’s new Baltic Sea Strategy aims to clean up a gravely threatened ecosystem while better integrating a region containing some of the Union’s richest and poorest countries. Can it work? Ian Traynor reports

Cameron’s coming

With polls pointing to a Conservative victory in Britain’s general election – which must be held by the spring – Andrew Grice asks just how Eurosceptic the next government is likely to be

Made in China

Clifford Coonan shares his front-row seat to this generation’s greatest story of change

Crossing the aisle in Paris and Washington

Both the US and French Presidents, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy, have brought key opposition figures into their administrations. As Fabrice Pothier argues, in both cases their policy influence has been minimal

Euroville

Geoff Meade gets to the bottom of things in the EU capital

Hidden Europe

One hundred years ago this September, Ängsö in Sweden became Europe’s first national park. As Nicky Gardner writes, the concept holds very different meanings from one country to another



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