Euro-elections demand progress, not prevarication
The far-right challenge in the European elections was overblown. Just transition, rather than rowing back, is the answer.
Europe: tear down those walls!
It may be three decades since the Berlin wall came down but too many others have recently proliferated.
2016: Europe’s Year Of Living On The Edge
This new year of 2016 has begun badly. ISIS attacks in Istanbul and Jakarta. Stock market jitters. Violence, including rape, upon women in Germany, Sweden
Marine Le Pen’s Tide Is Far From Ebbing
Well, that’s OK then. The second round of France’s regional elections has seen the clear winner of the first, Marine Le Pen and her Front
Europe At A Murderous Crossroads
Our Facebook portraits are draped in the tricolore, special twibbons adorn our Twitter profiles, public buildings are splashed blue, white and red, we “pray for
Germany Undoes 70 Years Of European Policy
When I was a correspondent in Germany two decades ago, in the run-up to unification and thereafter, interviews with Helmut Kohl, Hans-Dietrich Genscher and other
A Franco-German Social Democrat Plan for Reviving the EU
They are a political odd couple, Emmanuel Macron and Sigmar Gabriel, yet they have together put out a radical proposal for reforming the EU/EZ that
Seismic Change In The UK And EU Political Landscape
On the 70th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day the United Kingdom awoke to stark evidence it is in reality the Disunited Kingdom as