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However familiar he became, Václav Havel always represented – and offered – something different. Contemporary accounts of Václav Havel's early days as president of...

It is Germany's responsibility to be bold. A series of developments over the past few weeks have set in motion a downward spiral for the eurozone. Unless officials –...

The financial crisis has put great strain on the single market, but that has not stopped EU leaders pledging to push it towards completion. Next year is the 20th anniversary...

ECB board member Jürgen Stark is a straight-talking fiscal and monetary hardliner. These must be trying times for Jürgen Stark. A champion of economic discipline,...

A round-up of the top stories in Europe's newspapers. Supporters of Muammar Qaddafi are fighting “a rearguard campaign” using snipers, mortars and rockets to try to stop...

Germany has never been more powerful in Europe than it is today – and it has never been less ambitious for Europe. Twenty years ago, in the immediate aftermath of...

The German chancellor's communications failure is inextricably linked to how she operates politically. Stepping out of the arrivals hall of Berlin's Tegel airport last week,...

The successes and setbacks of Norbert Röttgen's quest to reshape Germany's centre-right. At the age of 45, Germany's environment minister, Norbert Röttgen, is the...

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...

The EU needs a credible and lasting fund to deal with economic crises, but the anguish of another treaty change could be too high a price to pay. If it looks like a...

Like Germany, the EU is split about nuclear energy. Unlike Germany, it is not giving the subject a proper airing. Germany's energy policy sets the context for European Union...

The change of tone from Berlin is something the rest of the European Union will have to get used to. The German government is adopting a new tone in its approach to the...

The death of a Polish president in Russia could bring Warsaw and Moscow closer together Ever since the end of the Second World War, reconciliation between nations and their...

Greece wants guarantees from other EU member states that they will not let the country default on its debt. The Greek government is looking for an explicit guarantee from...

Senior politician says Europe's main players are 'not up to the task'. Greece's deputy prime minister has accused the European Union of a lack of leadership, saying that a...

Germany is crucifying Greece but is failing to do what it could do to help the eurozone. Angela Merkel is again ‘Frau Nein', the role in European politics that now seems...

EU leaders to discuss top EU jobs on the sidelines of celebrations to mark the end of communism in Germany. World leaders have gathered in Berlin to commemorate the fall of...

Why have the Beneš Decrees, which legitimated the post-war expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, surfaced so persistently as a political problem? A Czech president once...

EU leaders have to learn to live with democracy, however uncomfortable it may be. Democracy is occasionally inconvenient, but that does not mean it can be dispensed with....

The times are too dangerous to continue waiting for consensus, writes John Wyles José Manuel Barroso sounded like a man quietly confident of reappointment in an...