Editorial
Simon O'Connor
Countdown to Copenhagen
A far-reaching global deal including all key polluting countries is seen as the last chance to avert cataclysmic climate change. As David Shukman reports, an array of obstacles still stands in the way of an agreement.
Capital E
The West must do more to reassure eastern Europeans that they are secure in its fold, writes Philip Stephens
Emission impossible?
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee Chair Jo Leinen talks to Simon O’Connor about the prospects for the Copenhagen climate summit and the need to choose a consensual figure as the first European Council president
Global Eyes
David Rennie imagines an internal party memo to UK Conservative leader David Cameron on his Europe policy
Fog in Pittsburgh
The compromises struck at September’s global summit on financial reform left important questions unanswered, as Francesco Guerrera reports
Tilting the balance
The global economy needs to become less reliant on Chinese exports and American consumers – but as Erik Jones argues, addressing the imbalances within the eurozone itself is an equally pressing and difficult challenge
Another Angle
Supranational governance needs creative thinking to be democratically legitimate, writes Sunder Katwala
Old friends in new high places?
Britain’s relationship with the United States is becoming less special, but as Stryker McGuire writes, Washington’s calls to Europe may soon be answered with an English accent
Copyright conundrum
Views on online copyright protection in Europe are as polarised as ever. Now the cross-border Pirate Party and digital library initiatives are adding new twists to the debate, writes Leo Cendrowicz
Outside the Box
The Lisbon Treaty offers Britain’s Labour government a chance to wrong-foot the Tories, argues Anand Menon
American Pie
An insider’s view of people and politics in Washington DC by Susan Milligan
Turkey in Europe? Off course
The ejection of the Social Democrats from Germany’s government, France’s sceptical stance and painfully slow progress in the Cyprus talks are dimming Ankara’s prospects of joining the EU, writes Ian Traynor
Europe’s liberty island
Many of the continent’s liberal and democratic traditions have their roots in Britain – something the country’s Eurosceptics would do well to recall, writes Peter Kellner
Broadcast Muse
Matt Frei takes a stroll through Berlin, a city that has never been more at ease with itself
Europe’s shrinking giant
Germany’s steadily falling population means that by 2050 it could be only the fourth largest EU member – a development that will transform the political and economic map of the continent. Bettina Vestring reports
Russian Revelation
A view on the EU’s eastern neighbour by Andrew Osborn
Sound science
The CERN research centre near Geneva is about to host the most powerful experiment the world has ever seen. As Robin McKie writes, it has become a model for scientific cooperation in Europe
Made in China
Clifford Coonan shares his front-row seat to this generation’s greatest story of change
Hidden Europe
Nicky Gardner reports from Vitebsk, a Belarusian city learning to vaunt its rich artistic and cultural heritage
Euroville
Geoff Meade gets to the bottom of things in the EU capital
