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The costs to the West of war with Iran would pale compared to the costs to the developing world. Debates on the pros and cons of attacking Iran turn, inevitably, to 1973 and...

Growth is back on the agenda. But are EU leaders serious about tax reform as well. While the eurozone debt crisis dragged on through 2011, much other

The long-delayed formation of a government in Belgium brings to an end an interesting post-modern experiment in apolitical politics. At just the moment that the leaders of...

Any last-ditch plan that EU leaders devise to save the eurozone must involve a greater role for the European Central Bank. At least three times since May 2010, the European...

Rich countries have pledged vast sums to help the world's poor deal with the effects of climate change, but the talk is often not backed up with action. The world's poorest...

Over-treatment is rife in Europe. How is Europe to pay for its population of grey-hairs as they stumble on into their 80s and 90s, demanding ever-cleverer and more expensive...

Dmitry Medvedev offered an illusion of change. Now that the illusion has been dispelled, what policy should the West follow? The prospect of 12 more years of Vladimir Putin...

Economic models and projections are incapable of capturing the scale of the threat to Europe's and the world's economy. Economic forecasts are sophisticated, computer-...

Exploring a demographic question that divides planners and politicians possibly more than any other. There is one obvious solution to the problem of ageing societies in...

One way of easing the burden of an ageing population is to ensure that people spend more years at work. If European states are struggling to keep control of costs now, when...

Events in Libya again dominate Europe's newspapers.

Turning waste into energy could result in big efficiency savings. Industrial symbiosis is the idea that one company's waste can be another's raw material – the first...

Providing aid directly to governments prove more effective than aid for specific projects. Your article “On the trail of ‘disappearing' aid” (16-22 June) fails to...

Without co-ordination, Europe and the US risk rewriting their corporate-tax codes in self-destructive ways. As governments on both sides of the Atlantic scramble to...

Economic upswings in Germany and France prove that it is not all doom and gloom in the eurozone. But both countries – and the EU – must do more to avoid economic...

EU looking at changes to its aid policies as the world's poorest states are increasingly unable to cope. Last week (20 May), the European Union pledged €54.5 million to...

To reduce the risk of a free-for-all scramble for metals and minerals, set up a global forum. High commodity prices are now becoming the norm, with constrained supply...

How a global ecological crisis could become more expensive than any sovereign-debt crisis. Europe is in the grip of an escalating debt crisis that goes far beyond...

France has performed better than expected during the Great Recession, but it does have some major economic weaknesses. While Europe has been focusing on the stunning...

The EU must discuss the role of cohesion policy at the highest political level I read with great interest your special report on regional policy (20-27 April). It was a...