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European Union leaders flocked to Oslo this week for the Nobel Peace Prize award for 2012 In a carefully staged display of unity, the presidents of the European Union's...

Three crises with disastrous consequences – and their similarities with the eurozone's crisis. Europe's crisis is now poised at the moment that divides recovery and renewal...

If our leaders appear indecisive, it may be because the public has not given them a mandate to act. On a recent visit to Europe, I found economists, journalists, and business...

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...

Twice in the past, a British ‘No' has pushed European monetary union forward. At the European Union summit on 8-9 December, British Prime Minister David Cameron vented...

Germany's finance minister honoured for his role stabilising monetary union. The judges for the 2012 Charlemagne Prize have exhibited an unfashionable degree of confidence in...

Senior panel approves secretary-general's plan. A senior European Parliament panel has recommended a €16 million plan to expand office space for MEPs and staff in...

The main players in Poland's presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Solavkia's prime minister faces many battles within her own party, but has a high-profile supporter. “To conquer Troy, they had to use a huge, eye-catching wooden horse....

The price of economic meltdown in Russia would be high for the EU too. So which is it to be? Is Russia the “virtual mafia state” in which “one cannot differentiate...

Many may sympathise with the French president's immigrant-bashing, but there is no guarantee they will vote for him. “Britain and France had to choose between war and...

ECB president says current system exacerbated the financial crisis. Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, has called for Europe to diversify the...

Poland's prime minister becomes the second Pole to win European prize. Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, was today awarded this year's Charlemagne Prize for his...

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...

The man nominated to be the Hungarian member of the new Commission exudes an air of intellectual honesty and curiosity. László Andor is an unusual politician. For...

Central bankers and banking supervisors think that, despite the trillions of euros of government aid, bank bosses have not understood what is at stake. Europe's central...

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...

The financial crisis is an opportunity to develop an economic framework with long-term benefits for the environment. Looking back on last year's main topic of discussion –...

When you get history wrong, it can skew your own strategic choices. I recently took part in a public debate with Paul Keating, Australia's former prime minister. He is...

His ‘audacity of hope' will not suffice, but the US president-elect has other cards that may prove vital: popular support and an understanding of the challenges we face....