Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
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| 1. For the people, despite the people | January 12, 2012 |
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A valuable guide to the lies politicians tell, and why. “It is hard to hide a lie for a long period”, writes John Mearsheimer – and the good news is that his study of... |
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| 2. What does the East do when the West goes bust? | June 30, 2011 |
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The new member states of the EU now look much more stable and secure than the traditional global powerhouses. The compass used to point west. It often wobbled, but always... | |
| 3. Pride comes before a recession | March 24, 2011 |
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The US could learn some lessons about labour markets from Europe. Add another casualty to the list of victims of the Great Recession: the US conceit that its labour market... |
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| 4. Is less really more? | October 7, 2010 |
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Searching for the roots of trans-atlantic economic policy divergences. In the early 1980s, the infamous Laffer curve, named after Arthur Laffer, a professor of economics at... |
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| 5. History buff | September 9, 2010 |
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Lithuania's prime minister has steely determination, and very poor popularity ratings. It takes a certain kind of individual to spend the summer holiday bike-riding and... |
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| 6. Half-measures will not ease the crisis | May 27, 2010 |
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Despite major decisions taken in Berlin, Brussels and Washington, the worst of the crisis may still be ahead. Turning points in history are notoriously difficult to... |
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| 7. US vice-president seeks to charm MEPs | May 5, 2010 |
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Biden to discuss data protection concerns US Vice-president Joe Biden will try to win over MEPs on Thursday (6 May) when he visits the European Parliament to address... | |
| 8. US visit for Buzek | April 23, 2010 |
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European Parliament president will meet US vice-president and secretary of state. Jerzy Buzek, the president of the European Parliament, on Sunday embarks on a... | |
| 9. US visit for Buzek | April 23, 2010 |
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European Parliament president will meet US vice-president and secretary of state. Jerzy Buzek, the president of the European Parliament, on Sunday embarks on a... | |
| 10. Striking a better tone for a long-running debate | March 4, 2010 |
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The Commission is, fortunately, taking a more realistic perspective on the challenges facing Europe's economy than it did a decade ago. The Lisbon Agenda, with its... |
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| 11. The past should matter when it comes to EU foreign policy | December 10, 2009 |
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A defence of last week's column about the background of Catherine Ashton, the EU's new foreign policy chief. Last week's column on Catherine Ashton's appointment as the EU's... | |
| 12. Ashton's time with CND warrants greater scrutiny | December 3, 2009 |
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The lack of fuss about the EU's foreign policy chief's employment history is symptomatic of the West's amnesia about the Cold War. Imagine a British Conservative politician... | |
| 13. Be bold on budget reform | November 19, 2009 |
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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... | |
| 14. Looking back gladly at the era of a cold warrior | November 19, 2009 |
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Remembering Reagan's stirring speech. “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Ronald Reagan's stirring speech at the Berlin Wall on 12 June 1987 was not the death blow to... | |
| 15. Unbelievable | June 3, 2009 |
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Twenty years of perspective may instruct historians, but the most valuable lesson from Poland's first partly free elections comes from remembering how we Poles saw things... |
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| 16. The cost of Dick Cheney | May 9, 2009 |
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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... | |
| 17. A relationship with real problems (I) | April 2, 2009 |
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Many in Europe believed the election of Barack Obama would signal a new approach to relations with the US. It could prove to be wishful thinking. The election of Barack... |
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| 18. 1929 or 1989? | March 20, 2009 |
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We may very well be at the turn of an epoch; perhaps we should hope that the new epoch will be as short-lived as the post-1989 moment. As the economic crisis deepens and... | |
| 19. Why bipartisanship is good politics | March 7, 2009 |
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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... |
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| 20. Playing defence, not offence | March 5, 2009 |
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US President Barack Obama is unlikely to come up with any trade initiatives soon, but he may be forced to make decisions. For years, trade has been a problem for governments... |
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