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Germany's finance minister honoured for his role stabilising monetary union. The judges for the 2012 Charlemagne Prize have exhibited an unfashionable degree of confidence in...

Strong leadership is desperately needed to give us all some hope. The rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, from what was feared would be their tomb, gave the world something to...

Looking at the role of banks in politics in the years before the financial crisis. Economic policy is too often seen through the prism of high politics. This book reminds us...

Poland's prime minister becomes the second Pole to win European prize. Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, was today awarded this year's Charlemagne Prize for his...

The UN's secretary-general sets out the path towards Haiti's reconstruction. The Petionville Golf Club sits upon a hillside overlooking Port au Prince and the sea. These...

The US ambassador to the EU has close ties to Obama and a background in telecommunications. US President Barack Obama may have come to power talking of overcoming domestic...

Could Spain again usher in a new period of enhanced EU-US co-operation? Mark Twain, the author of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, is credited with having said...

Obama's envoy to NATO is an intellectual heavy-hitter, well-versed in diplomacy. The post of US ambassador to NATO has traditionally entailed – alongside its obvious...

The EU should not give up its quest for a climate-change deal, even if expectations for Copenhagen are lower. This may be remembered as the moment when Barack Obama...

The interpreter who became Turkey's voice in the EU. Egemen Bağış, Turkey's chief negotiator with the EU, was the voice of world leaders before he became a politician...

It is science versus politics and the EU versus the US in the fight for a climate change deal. How should European citizens judge whether the outcome of the climate change...

Former telecoms czar will need Senate approval before he can take office. US President Barack Obama nominated William Kennard, a former head of the Federal Communications...

New secretary-general wants greater EU, UN support in Afghanistan, reaches out to Russia. Anders Fogh Rasmussen today took up his post as NATO's secretary-general,...

Former US communications commission boss set for EU ambassador role. Could the US be about to send to Brussels the first black ambassador to the EU? The word in Washington...

George W. Bush has started work on his memoirs. Count to ten before you respond. The autobiographies of political leaders are not a very elevated literary form. First, few...

Stakeholders' group may be set up after talks with industry, experts and national governments. The European Commission has given more detail about its consultations on...

How Janet Napolitano, the US head of homeland security, can improve EU-US relations. Aside from the Pentagon, no branch of the US government is more associated with the...

Anthony Giddens's latest book is overdressed, but nevertheless contains some interesting ideas on climate change. There is no politics of climate change. This bold claim,...

Barack Obama's ambitions to rebuild transatlantic ties should be met with open arms by European leaders. “The days of a simple pax Americana, to the extent it ever...