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Learning from the mistakes of the past can help us make progress in today's conflicts. In her book “The uses and abuses of history” the historian Margaret Macmillan...

Will Iceland's prime minister crack under financial pressure? Geir H. Haarde has been looking uncomfortably over his shoulder in television appearances in recent days. The...

Racists still find a refuge in too many soccer stadiums around the EU. On 20 April, pockets of Rapid Vienna and AGF Arhus fans unfurled banners to celebrate the birthday of...

Do not get me wrong about our friend in the North. But when I read his dispatches it's like listening to a child who has no sense of history, although at the end of the day,...

The Greeks invented the Olympic Games almost 3,000 years ago and even then the Olympic ideal wasn't exactly what it said on the tin. The marathon, for example, seems to have...

UK Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan's role in political life is to be what the Germans call a Stoerenfried – a troublemaker or agent provocateur. Drawing on his experiences...

Choosing a ‘Man of the Year' is a risky business and writing about him even more so. Take this sentence: “His was no ordinary dictatorship, but rather one of great...

Alexander Weis, the new head of the European Defence Agency (EDA), always wanted to do international work. That is how he explains his decision to work for the German defence...

Read Russian internet and you would think that Estonia is a hellhole ruled by Nazi sympathisers who organise a grotesque form of apartheid, hypocritically endorsed by the...

Hans-Gert Pöttering, the president of the European Parliament, has ordered bookshops in the Parliament to remove from sale copies of an anti-Semitic book....

Munich is not necessarily the best place for a European security conference. In 1938 the then British prime minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich with a piece of...

Last week 25 of Europe's most powerful people got together for nearly a whole day to discuss such pressing issues of state as the length of time needed to register a new...

The EU opened accession negotiations with Croatia on Monday night (3 October), shortly after the ceremony launching membership talks with Turkey. This decision followed a...

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited world leaders to Moscow to celebrate the end of the Second World War on 9 May. This is indeed a date to celebrate: the...

HOLIDAY time is upon us, bringing with it a kind of hazy, sangria-fuelled news siesta. So once again this column revisits what that street bard Will Smith, aka The Fresh...

THANKS to the Nazis, the top administrator for Europe's agricultural lobby couldn't inherit even a blade of grass on his family's farm. A year before Adolf Hitler invaded...

PUT the snow tyres on the Learjet and grab your cashmere thermals, because the Masters of the Universe are in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World Economic Forum...

RECENTLY, the most popular theory in Washington is that Europeans are pacifists only because of their military weakness, and that the Americans – whose defence budget...

PROSPECTIVE EU member states should be forced to respect an international agreement on the restitution of artworks stolen by the Nazis, MEPs will be told next week. German...

IT'S getting uglier by the day. Yellow journalism and harsh words have inflated the rift in NATO over Iraq to new levels of bellicosity. Still, it makes for fun reading,...