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The West's long period of global dominance is ending, encouraged and accelerated by its own mistakes and irresponsible behaviour. In 2040/2050, will demographers speak of...

The proclaimed ambitions of Spain's foreign minister have caused confusion about EU foreign policy, but typify the challenges it now faces. Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Spain's...

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The Commission will not meet its deadline for a review of the EU's budget, but it should make debate on the subject a priority of Barroso II. By the end of  2009, the...

Increased co-operation with Russia would help resolve NATO's identity crisis. NATO has for the past two decades suffered from an identity crisis. It is a crisis that it has...

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As Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, battles to stabilise the US economy, even Fed sympathisers are asking whether the nominally independent central bank...

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There were euphoric responses in European newspapers last week to the announcement of the figures for economic growth in the eurozone in the second quarter of 2006. Europe's...

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