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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...

Former British prime minister changes his opinion. Compare and contrast: Gordon Brown, UK finance minister, speaking to a conference organised by the

In 2001, aged just 30, George Osborne was a newly elected member of the British parliament, the youngest on the Conservative benches, and was looking for people to staff his...

The G20 is usually doomed to disappoint. The date of the G20 summit in Cannes on 3-4 November has become a deadline for the eurozone to sort out its sovereign-debt crisis....

Senior officials make their return. It is now more than 18 months since José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, drove a coach and horses...

Horst Reichenbach will lead group providing technical assistance to Greece. Horst Reichenbach, a vice-president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...

Mark Malloch-Brown delivers delightful anecdotes, but the juicy bits are missing. How can the “under-regulated hell” created by runaway globalisation be transformed into...

A strange introduction for the UK's next permanent representative to the EU. David Cameron chose a curious form of words to justify the appointment of Jon Cunliffe as the...

The IMF must protect the legacy of the past three-and-a-half years. The political reality is that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is finished. Whether or not he is indicted and...

Two critics of the EU get hitched. Gisela Stuart is a British Labour MP who served on the praesidium of the European Convention as a representative of the national...

European proposals to curb bonuses and limit risk-taking may be well designed, but the restrictions would be all too easy to sidestep. In its July session, the European...

The former commissioner doesn't pull any punches in his new book. The memoirs of Peter Mandelson, erstwhile UK minister for business, sometime European commissioner for...

How the European Union's economic governance has changed in recent months. The eurozone debt crisis has posed problems for the European Union's leadership that were not...

Poland has declared its opposition to French ambitions for regular summit meetings of countries of the eurozone. Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, on a visit to...

Senior appointments in the Commission will always be politically sensitive, but José Manuel Barroso has undermined his credibility. The grubby trade of journalism –...

How does Eurozone Council sound? What do you call a meeting of the leaders of the countries of the eurozone? There have been such meetings before – in October 2008, in the...

Nick Clegg, a former MEP, to be deputy prime minister; William Hague, a Eurosceptic, to serve as foreign minister. David Cameron, the leader of the UK Conservatives, will...

Conservatives win largest number of seats The UK was headed for a hung parliament this morning as it appeared that neither of the two biggest parties had managed to secure...

The Lisbon treaty was supposed to clarify who speaks for the EU in international negotiations, but that is proving difficult. The Copenhagen climate conference in December...

Voters appear to be in denial about the fact that the UK will have to take tough measures to rein in public spending for years to come. I don't mean to sound as though I am...