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1. This fragile patient still needs delicate treatment January 24, 2013

There will not be a rapid recovery for the European economy. Steady, targeted care is still required The New Year was only two weeks old when Renault, France's leading motor...

This fragile patient still needs delicate treatment

2. The complexities of a banking union November 15, 2012

A report on a banking union's impact on central and eastern Europe is required reading, and not just for eurozone countries Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England,...

The complexities of a banking union

3. Failing Roma. Again. August 16, 2012

France's expulsion of Roma will not work, because France (and Europe) has little clue what is happening in Roma ghettoes or how to integrate Roma. French authorities have...

Failing Roma. Again.

4. Europe's Viktors and democracy's downturn June 7, 2012

The democratic erosion that has been so visible in Hungary and Ukraine would be less worrying if it were occurring in isolation. Two Viktors – Orbán of Hungary and...

Europe's Viktors and democracy's downturn

5. A tale of two economies April 12, 2012

Poland has become an economic powerhouse in recent years. Alas, the same cannot be said for Hungary. It is most unlikely that Poland will win Euro 2012, the European football...

6. A worrying increase in infections December 1, 2011

HIV infection rates in Europe remain low by global standards, but there has been an alarming growth in eastern Europe in the past decade. At the end of 2009, around 820,000...

A worrying increase in infections

7. If in doubt, blame those meddling foreigners December 1, 2011

Many Hungarians believe that because their language is complex, no outsider can understand them. They are wrong. Many Hungarians may think it, but only one has made the...

8. Cross-border banking in the balance November 24, 2011

Europe's integration of the banking systems of central and eastern Europe has been hugely beneficial – and is now at risk. The gravity of the eurozone crisis has finally...

9. Cross-border banking in the balance November 19, 2011

Europe's integration of the banking systems of central and eastern Europe has been hugely beneficial – and is now at risk. The gravity of the eurozone crisis has finally...

Cross-border banking in the balance

10. Talking about an out-of-date term in an up-to-date city November 3, 2011

The phrase ‘eastern Europe' should be binned. But what should replace it? Here are some alternatives. TED talks are glitzy mini-lectures, available free on the internet....

11. Why no riots in central and eastern Europe? October 20, 2011

Some countries find it easier than others to fantasise about a world in which private profit gives way to the common good. Capitalism sucks, particularly if you don't know...

12. Pay your debts, and play to your strengths October 6, 2011

What would central and eastern Europe look like if each country focused on what they do brilliantly? England to Greece: “Pay your debts and you get your weather back.” As...

13. An inflated sense of importance in the east September 15, 2011

Western Europe and the US have plenty of problems of their own without worrying about events in eastern Europe. Who wants to be at the periphery when you can be at the...

14. Brickbats and bouquets after a summer of reflection September 1, 2011

A quiet, tranquil August gives our columnist a chance to assess the situation in Europe's eastern states Nothing much happens in August, supposedly, which is why European...

15. The political benefits of having royal ancestors July 14, 2011

And why Otto von Habsburg deserves to be recognised as one of the European Union's founding fathers. Dynasties have a bad press the farther east and south you go. The...

16. European reflections on north African revolutions May 19, 2011

The Arab world is being patronised by the West in the same way that central and eastern Europe once was. A long period of economic, political and cultural failure is...

17. The false economies of central and eastern Europe May 12, 2011

Europe can no longer free-ride on the back of US taxpayers, a lesson NATO's eastern member states should learn now. Defence spending in the new member states of NATO is...

18. Corruption, a disease shared by east and west April 28, 2011

Why bash eastern Europe for a problem imported by their tutors in Western-style capitalism? My recent article in The Economist called “From Bolshevism to backhanders”...

19. A meeting of Don Quixotes leads to nostalgic reflection April 7, 2011

Circassians are picking up the lance relinquished by those successful Don Quixotes, the Balts. The US has a lot on its plate right now. But I have just come back from a few...

20. Ten topics that are vexing the EU's eastern half March 10, 2011

A trip to Bratislava brings to the surface some of the principal undercurrents in central and eastern Europe. The Globsec security conference in Bratislava is carving out...

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