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To break out of the current economic impasse, a bold, coordinated Franco-German strategy is needed.

France and Germany: a moment of truth

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 30, 2014

France and Germany, which together account for half of euro-area GDP, are rightly considered the key to the euro area’s exit from the current impasse of low growth, falling inflation and increasingly dangerous debt trajectories.

Perhaps never in the history of the European Union has there been a greater mismatch between the need for reform and the political capital available to enact that reform.

The Eerie Silence Before the EU Reform Storm

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 30, 2014

The current combination of challenges facing the EU is extreme, even by the union’s crisis-ridden standards. That calls for an equally momentous reform effort.

The start of the EU’s 2014-2019 legislative term offers a unique opportunity to rethink Europe’s future political priorities.

What’s needed is a much more visionary EU industrial policy

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Over the next five years, economic growth will mainly be generated outside Europe, so the key challenge will be to fashion and implement an industrial policy that strengthens Europeans’ global competitiveness and preserves our high living standards.

If Israel were smart, it would make its Arab citizens the happiest people in the country rather than trying to take away their rights.

Israel′s nation-state law motion shatters fragile equilibrium

By: EBR | Monday, December 29, 2014

How can a country be a full democracy when it is defined as a Jewish one? The fact that I need a week to explain it shows how complex this issue is.

Some political events mark their importance less by their content than by their timing, circumstances and presentation.

The CIA’s road to infamy

By: EBR | Monday, December 29, 2014

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture contains little new to the attentive observer and nothing of major consequence.

"Politicians do not have the same sense of timing as humans".

The lost years and their importance

By: EBR | Monday, December 22, 2014

Politicians must acknowledge that time unfortunately cannot turn back. It is the only and the one of goods that cannot be reproduced but be at last self-destructed.

Despite its ability to generate prosperity, capitalism is under attack. By shaking up our long-held assumptions about how and why the system works, we can improve it. Capitalism is under attack.

Redefining capitalism

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 17, 2014

While we have been correct to believe that capitalism has been the major source of historical growth and prosperity, we have been mostly incorrect in identifying how and why it worked so well.

The recent stress tests by the European Central Bank offered few surprises and did not cause any significant political or financial reactions in the Continent.

Europe: Building a Banking Union

By: EBR | Monday, December 15, 2014

Without a substantial improvement in credit conditions, there cannot be a substantial economic recovery, particularly in the eurozone periphery.

Responding to climate change is a long and daunting task.

Integrating Taiwan’s Strengths into Global Climate Action

By: EBR | Monday, December 8, 2014

Scientists inform us that modern industrial development has caused carbon dioxide concentrations around the world to exceed the carrying capacity of natural ecosystems.

Bank of Japan addresses the depressing economic situation.

Japan rolls the dice: a report from Tokyo

By: EBR | Monday, December 8, 2014

On October 31, 2014, the government of Japan, through its subservient monetary arm, the Bank of Japan, made yet another desperate move.

The oligarchs are still profiting at the expense of the country and the rest of Europe.

Misrule of the few or how oligarchs ruined Greece

By: EBR | Monday, December 8, 2014

Just a few years ago, Greece came close to defaulting on its debts and exiting the eurozone. Today, the country’s economy is showing new signs of life.

One way or another, what really deserves attention is the haste of Israelis to embrace any solution, unrealistic as it may be, in order to avoid the painful necessity of dividing the land between them and the Palestinians.

No easy answers to Israel’s painful dilemma

By: EBR | Monday, September 29, 2014

In situations as complex as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which often seem insoluble, one sometimes envies the ancient Greeks, who invented deus ex machina — that artificial device that solved the entanglement of the dramatic plot.

a "natural gas deal" for Europe would ensure security of supply this winter and lower gas prices for all member states

Experts say crisis demands closer monitoring of European gas supplies via Ukraine

By: EBR | Thursday, September 18, 2014

The EU is suffering from high energy prices and a lot of competitiveness due to the US shale revolution. The EU will no doubt produce some shale gas over time. However, on its doorstep the EU has the world’s largest gas resources on the territory of the Russian Federation

Europe cannot avoid a Japanese-style lost decade just by upping the dose of monetary medicine. No amount of extra liquidity will entice overleveraged companies and households to borrow more. This was the case for Japan in the 1990s, and it is true for the eurozone (and the United States) today.

A European lost decade?

By: EBR | Thursday, August 28, 2014

Europe's economic woes resemble Japan’s situation in the 1990s, which led to a 'lost decade' of economic stagnation and deflation from which the country is still working to recover. Michael Heise asks whether Europe will suffer a similar fate.

The Committee of the Regions had urged for EU funds to be allocated directly to local and regional authorities

Youth unemployment: regions should be given flexibility to use EU funds

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 17, 2014

An opinion drafted by Mattia Tarsi, Member of Italy’s Pesaro and Urbino Provincial Council, pointed out that the number of developers creating applications in Europe was expected to rise from 1 million in 2013 to 2.8 million in 2018

A recent survey by strategy consultancy WorldThinks showed there is huge support for South Stream with 68% of Bulgarians backing it and only 5% against.The potential beneficial effects of South Stream were apparent to survey respondents, not just in terms and increased supply security, but overall economic benefits such as job creation, taxes and transmission fees.

Experts back Bulgaria in dispute over South Stream Gas Pipeline

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 7, 2014

The rapidly unfolding crisis in Ukraine has put the spotlight firmly on another burning issue that has dogged EU/Russia relations for years - energy security.

As ethnic Russians continued their celebrations across Crimea on Monday, Sroja Trifkovic, a Chicago-based Serb-American, "It is ironic that we have seen the Russian President upholding the principles of self-dertermination while the West,including the EU, seems to have been upholding the legacies of the Soviet past."

International election monitors refuted suggestions of violations in the Crimean referendum

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Our colleague Martin Banks was election monitor of the Crimea referendum on March 16. In this article he reports about the pressconference of the election monitors after the referendum

The economic plight of Crimea is a topic that cropped up time and again with the many people we spoke to as we travelled from one polling station to another to monitor the proceedings. And judging by the rundown condition of many homes, the terrible state of most public highways and general sense of fatalistic depression hanging over both the region and its inhabitants, it is hard not to sympathise with the case they argue.

Crimeans turn to Russia to turn round "economic mess"

By: EBR | Monday, March 17, 2014

Our colleague Martin Banks was election monitor of the Crimea referendum on March 16. He had the chance to meet some interesting people and to hear opinions that usually not come through to the European media ...

The UK government, which sees itself as a champion of press freedom, now finds itself in the dock internationally. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRA), the body which represents the global newspaper industry, has accused it of conflating terrorism and the legitimate work of journalists. If that became a reality, the Association wrote in a letter to David Cameron, the UK would be putting itself on the same level as Turkey and Ethiopia as countries where governments misuse anti-terror legislation to silence critics.

An unholy mixture: surveillance, the law and a setback for journalism

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 3, 2013

We should not underestate the seriousness of the government's attacks on those seeking to expose its surveillance secrets. At stake is not only what the state is entitled to do to the public, but what journalists are entitled to do to expose it and perform the vital role of public watchdog

The roles of Greece and Cyprus in the West′s political and security framework offer U.S. policy makers an arc of stability in the eastern Mediterranean, and bring the EU to within 45 minutes of Israel′s borders. Port usage, naval facilities, and strategic airbases that Cyprus and Greece have long extended to the United States permit a U.S. Sixth Fleet — if the U.S. should decide to return that once-powerful naval force to even a fraction of its former strength — to safeguard the region′s sea lines of communication.

Mediterranean Gas Find: A Chance for U.S. to Break with Turkey

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Politics and alliances in the eastern Mediterranean are shifting, and the region's security framework is splintering. The region is now divided as much within the Muslim world as between it and the non-Muslim states.

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