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Some people may blame capitalism for the financial crisis, but the blame lies elsewhere. “Capitalism in crisis” was the vogue term being bandied about at the

Venizelos says Greeks will make necesssary sacrifices; warns against ignoring "historical lessons". The Greek government has reacted angrily to calls for a European...

There are limits to the notion, held particularly by Germans, that protection from market pressure would only impede adjustment and reform. For the third year in a row, the...

Europeans may not view Europe as a homeland, but the notion of a common identity emerging should not yet be dismissed. For at least 40 years, journalists, politicians and...

Whose fault it is that the European commissioners in Barroso II are performing below both hope and expectation? Could it be that our expectations of the European Commission...

Date confusion over the next European Council. When Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, announced in December that national leaders would meet again in...

Political leaders seem to be structurally condemned to short-termism. Is democratic time too slow to respond to crises, and too short to plan for the long term?

Denmark's foreign minister calls on Iran to restart talks on nuclear programme. The EU must impose tough sanctions on Iran to force the country's leadership to restart...

EU later this month expected to agree on a ban on imports of Iranian oil. Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister, has said that Italy will only agree to an embargo on imports of...

Asylum ruling The European Court of Justice ruled on 21 December that asylum-seekers should not be transferred to a member state where they risk being treated inhumanely....

Italy's prime minister says eurozone fund needs to be "significantly bigger". Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister, has said that the eurozone's bail-out fund needs...

Yield on six-month bonds at half the level it was in November. Italy's cost of borrowing fell sharply in a debt auction today, renewing hopes that turmoil in the eurozone's...

Italian PM's reshuffle causes problems for the EU. Not every decision from Mario Monti, Italy's technocratic prime minister, is helpful to the European Union. 

Even with more money from the EU, the International Monetary Fund will need to look for money from elsewhere if it is to help the eurozone's struggling economies. Christine...

Governments must force the markets to change their perceptions of the eurozone. Are the financial markets behaving like children in the ‘terrible twos', throwing tantrums?...

The European Council that starts this evening and continues tomorrow (8-9 December) will be one of the most important in recent history. Council to postpone Serbia's...

European Commission describes proposals as “timely and ambitious”; parliament to vote today. Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister, will today present a €30 billion...

Any last-ditch plan that EU leaders devise to save the eurozone must involve a greater role for the European Central Bank. At least three times since May 2010, the European...

Ministers discuss plans for recapitalisation of EU banks. Finance ministers yesterday discussed plans for recapitalisation of EU banks to protect them against losses of...

Will the new Italian prime minister address a long-standing problem? You rightly pointed out in your Entre Nous article ‘Will Italy now put an end to an ancient wrong?”...