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Judged by events in Seoul, the G20 is not the seat of global governance. Rarely has a modern German politician poured such scorn on the United States as Wolfgang...

The US has been involved in many currency battles, but the spat with China could be the most damaging of all. Modern economic history has been punctuated by diplomatic...

The US is less engaged in the response to Greece's crisis than it should be. For the US, and the EU, a role for the IMF would be good. In recent weeks, the Greek debt crisis...

Bruce Stokes considers how the Great Recession may re-shape US trade policy – and global geopolitics. For half a century, US trade policy was shaped by the bitter lessons...

The EU's current policy is an example of its old technocratic and apolitical approach. Pakistan is the pivot around which revolves not only peace on the Indian subcontinent...

Everything seems to be up for grabs in the ex-communist countries of eastern Europe and beyond Look round eastern Europe and the news reads like a thriller: call it The...

Italy's central bank governor has drawn up a prescription for fighting financial market contagion that is superior to the cop-out from Deutsche Bank's boss. Neo-liberal...

The crisis over Iran's nuclear research activities has brought a renewal of transatlantic diplomatic co-operation that contrasts with the bitter divisions over Iraq. The bad...

WHEN times are tough, it has long been the job of finance ministers to connive in or announce the devaluation of their nation's currency. Serious central bankers had...

In most areas of policy, a European government official told to expect “more of the same” from the second Bush administration would grit his teeth and prepare for the...

THE fissures dividing Europe and the United States on how to go about granting debt relief to highly indebted poor countries have widened at the meetings of the...

CONGRATULATIONS to George Papandreou for steering last weekend's informal foreign ministers' meeting through difficult and uncharted waters. One spark could have caused a...

Calls for a European defence indentity separate from NATO have gathered momentum since the Iraq crisis. Dana Spinant argues that without an effective military capacity the EU...

THE EU must accept that it is as much to blame as America for the breakdown in transatlantic relations, says the Union's envoy to the US. In a rare interview, Günter...

DINNER with an American friend last week was a sharp reminder that anguish at the damage done to the transatlantic relationship by the Iraq war is by no means confined to...

WHETHER or not Iraq, after more than a decade of ‘containment' and sanctions, poses a threat to the United States and its allies, any military action would most likely have...

claims that the world was forever changed on 11 September may be exaggerated. But there is no doubt that the horrific attacks on New York and Washington have made a huge...

MOST EU countries vowed last night (12 September) to support America in any retaliation against the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks which claimed thousands of lives in...

US aeroplane giant Boeing's plans to re-focus on faster long-range aircraft does not signal an end to complaints over European subsidies to Airbus' new superjumbo, Washington...

The debate at last week's international donors' conference over how to meet the cost of bringing stability to the Balkan region has underlined Washington's belief that the EU...