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A round-up of the international press on Tuesday, 21 May. A commentator in the UK's

A debt-mutualisation scheme for the eurozone must satisfy three crucial requirements. Since the 1970s, economists have warned that a monetary union could not be sustained...

Fears that the right to support cultural products through subsidies and quotas could be undermined. A majority of culture ministers from the European Union's member states...

Europe's aggressive regulatory unilateralism will not achieve anything good Europe's best chance to revive its economy is to tap the emerging economies better. Yet Europe's...

When it comes to patient health, full disclosure of clinical trials results is a must Should the European Medicines Agency (EMA) be prevented from disclosing data on clinical...

Five young consultants take on critics of the public-affairs profession We are young, European, and working in the ‘Brussels bubble'. Former political-science students, we...

Obama picks experienced economic expert to lead trade talks with EU. President Barack Obama has appointed Michael Froman, deputy national security adviser for international...

Committee backs 2025 target for emissions When members of the European Parliament's environment committee voted last week on new emissions limits for cars, they threw down...

After years of complacency, Europe is finally putting security back on the agenda. If Russia wanted to scare Sweden into NATO it could hardly be more effective. Early on...

Austerity policies are allegedly undermining the European Union. In reality fragmentation is a bigger threat than austerity. In a lucid study of the financial crisis in the...

Policymakers believe that orderly resolution of global mega-banks is an illusion; we should all worry. There are two competing narratives about recent financial-reform...

A round-up of the international press on Friday, 26 April.

High ideals about European leadership inevitably mix with low cunning Globsec, an annual security conference in Bratislava, is like an all-you-can-eat buffet. It has big...

A former US national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, tells Andrew Gardner that an EU-US trade deal would be of great benefit for both sides, but only if Europe has...

China has an opportunity to overcome widespread mistrust if it engages constructively with Pyongyang Repeated threats from North Korea have turned the Korean Peninsula into...

Discussion on the knock-on effects of north American shale gas boom. A discussion by energy ministers on unconventional oil and gas focused mainly on the transformative...

Talks move on to additional unilateral measures. The European Union is considering extending sanctions to persuade the North Korean regime to scale down tensions on the...

A transatlantic trade agreement looks even more important in the modest context of the rest of the US-European relationship I am in Washington, DC, this week, trying to find...

When Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, John Kerr was in the UK's finance ministry to which he had been seconded from the foreign ministry. He speaks to Toby Vogel...

The European Union should show that it is prepared to act against human-rights abuses in Russia If there is one thing that truly alarms the Russian elite, it is the prospect...