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Can China be helped to abandon the tortured fiction that there is some kind of future for a reformed North Korea? In one sense, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il...

Today's protests against Russia's leadership have strong echoes of the demonstrations of 20 years ago. The Russian Federation of today is not the Soviet Union of 1991. But...

What Europe can learn from Taiwan. Sources of inspiration are becoming increasingly difficult to come by in Europe's current age of austerity. However, the East –...

Moldova's foreign minister has a European outlook. Multilingual, courteous and unassumingly cosmopolitan in his outlook, Iurie Leanca symbolises a new generation in Moldovan...

Some (tentative) eastern European lessons on how a post-Qaddafi Libya might move forward. Dear Libyans.

The president of the European United Left/Nordic Green Alliance has gone from street protests to the European Parliament. No one could be blamed for turning down the...

If China should fail to achieve its economic and social reforms, it could become a very difficult partner for the European Union. A group of senior Chinese officials were...

Hungary's prime minister is subjected to a withering critique in a book on his country's post-communist politics. How is it that Hungary, central Europe's democratic...

János Martonyi, Hungary's foreign minister, has displayed admirable survival instincts. When Prime Minister Viktor Orbán introduced the Hungarian presidency's programme to...

Hungary's national economy minister has an ambitious agenda to implement. Hungary's current government has repeatedly said it will be judged by the success of its ambitious...

Yaraslau Ramanchuk's economic ideas have had a big impact in Belarus. Issues such as democracy, national identity and geopolitics have for years served as the principal...

How, then, can we go beyond ritualistic meetings that do little to advance the global agenda? Turn to the IMF. At its most recent meeting in Toronto this spring, the G20...

Algirdas Brazauskas, a communist who led Lithuania out of the Soviet Union, has died aged 77. Lithuania's experience of Soviet rule was a little different to that of its...

The astonishing endurance of Sali Berisha. On 19 May, Sali Berisha, Albania's prime minister, received a threatening letter. Since Albanian politics has always been a...

Socialists win but its leader resigns; two new parties may enter government. A coalition government led by the centre-right looks likely to emerge from parliamentary...

When Czechs go to the polls next week, the result may be an unlikely coalition of the left. When Jan Fischer winds up the Czech Republic's caretaker government after...

Ivo Josipovic is the bookish lawyer who developed a taste for power. When he was elected Croatia's president in January, Ivo Josipovic had a reputation as a nice man who...

Maria Damanaki has been a cult figure for decades. Maria Damanaki does not shy away from change. In her new post as European commis-sioner for maritime affairs and...

The Slovak commissioner has come a long way in a short time, but his new job will test his cheerfulness as never before. Maroš Šefcovic has packed a lot into a short life,...

Engagement with the political class has not worked, so Europe should turn its attention to Ukraine's citizenry. Pigeonholing and false analogies are not part of formal...