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In the latest of his visionary speeches on the future of Europe, Emmanuel Macron called for the EU to transform itself into a military power or face...
Ursula von der Leyen became president of the European Commission in a backroom deal in 2019 without facing Europe’s voters. Now she is running for...
A Social Democratic German chancellor lagging in the opinion polls vows adamantly not to join a war. Support for his SPD party rallies and he narrowly...
Poland’s longstanding struggle for a bigger say in European leadership may finally be gaining ground with the revival of the long dormant Weimar...
Emmanuel Macron sure knows how to make a headline. But did the French president, who once called Nato brain dead, really mean it when he said this...
Ursula von der Leyen surrendered to angry farmers last week faster than you could shake a pitchfork or dump a tractor-load of manure outside the...
The will of the people expressed in free elections and the rule of law upheld by independent courts are two of the pillars of a liberal democracy, or...
With two wars raging on its borders, a world retreating from free trade and globalisation, strong migratory pressure on its southern shores, rising...
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in France without a good old-fashioned brouhaha about cribs and candles in official buildings. The season of...
The European Union is never quite as bad or quite as good as it looks. Last week’s summit on expansion was an example of the 27-nation union at its...
French Jews were only partly reassured when more than 100,000 people, including the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, and two former presidents,...
European Union leaders are coming around to the geopolitical necessity of embracing Ukraine, Moldova and western Balkan countries as future EU...
I f the European Union wants to consign itself to irrelevance as a global geopolitical player, this week’s shambolic response to Hamas’s gruesome...
When Donald Trump lost the White House in 2020, Europe’s strongmen, populists and climate change deniers lost a powerful ally and a protector. Yet...
The financial services industry is essential to the day-to-day running of the global economy However it is now facing a number of challenges which it...