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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...

Leaders need the benefit of the doubt in crises; bipartisanship helps secure that. Bipartisanship seems to have taken a drubbing in Washington since President Barack Obama...

After wielding the stick in Georgia, Russia may find Azerbaijan more willing to bite a dangling carrot – a long-term oil deal that would shut out the West. On his...

If you joined or even just watched the revolutions in eastern Europe in 1989-91, life may have started to look rather dull soon afterwards. Any chance of recapturing the...

The fifth anniversary of 9/11 brought a pause in the partisan rancour that is warming up as the US moves closer to the November mid-term elections. The break from partisan...

Last time I met Mikhail Kasyanov was five years ago, when he was prime minister of Russia. Oddly, though we both lived in Moscow, his staff thought it would be better to...

Judging by the preparations for the EU-US summit in Vienna on 21 June, the event promises to be one of the most awkward of recent years. In the run-up to the meeting,...

Many greeted Angela Merkel's election as a turning point in EU relations, both internally and with the outside world. The new German chancellor had the outlook of an...

The EU and the US are to express their "strong support" for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) promoting democracy in central and eastern Europe, a move that is likely to...

With a new EU-China trade dispute brewing, this time over shoes, it is timely to ask what has happened to the much-trumpeted strategic partnership between the EU and China...

Next week (31 January) the world's financial markets will witness the end of an era. After more than 18 years, Alan Greenspan will retire as chairman of the United States'...

Things you need to know. John Bruton, the Commission's ambassador in Washington, gives an account on his website of a lunch last week hosted by George W. Bush at the White...

When the president of the European Commission turns up at the White House next week he will be given the red carpet treatment by George W. Bush.. There will be a full...

Sometimes it seems like nothing much ever changes in transatlantic trade policy. The issues come and go and apparent victories are soon undone by endless appeals and...

COLIN Powell's public appearances during his valedictory stopover in Brussels last week left some of us wondering how the Bush administration could afford to dispense with...

FOR Europe the western sky is darkening. The appointment of Condoleezza Rice as US secretary of state signals not only that the neo-conservative, unilateralist impulse is not...

CHINA has no case to answer at the World Trade Organization (WTO) – despite a deliberate policy of pegging the exchange rate of its yuan renminbi currency below its true...

Thursday 22 January: Depart from Brussels on same morning flight as Pat Cox, president of the European Parliament, and his aide-de-camp David Harley. We bump into each...

He occupies one of the European Union's top jobs, so you would have thought that organizers of this week's World Economic Forum in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos would...

HE IS the world's most powerful politician but has famously claimed that “people misunderestimate me”. Yes, George W. Bush's frequent bouts of foot-in-mouth disease have...