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Italy: The new Greece?

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Is Italy’s crisis the new Greece? Is it just as bad? Or different? Could it take just as long to resolve it?

Never mind Europe's ageing, the EU should focus instead on the impoverished young

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The European Union has rightly been chided for failing to develop a strategy on ageing, but where it has really fallen down is on younger people

Merkel’s Way Out

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Angela Merkel’s decision to step aside as party leader and not run again as chancellor in 2021 may have surprising consequences

“New” Perspectives For Europe

By: EBR | Friday, October 26, 2018

I am invited to talk about New Perspectives on Europe, but new ones fail me, and the Trumpian decay afflicting even the core of Europe makes me seriously question my old perspectives

EU candidate Alex Stubb calls for net-zero carbon by 2045

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Should he be picked as the European People’s Party (EPP) lead candidate for the European Commission’s top job, Alexander Stubb vows to “work towards a carbon neutral Europe by 2045”

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras: A remarkably solid politician

By: EBR | Friday, October 19, 2018

Alexis Tsipras admired Hugo Chavez. Then he became Greece’s Prime Minister. Now, he’s Washington’s good friend

Brexit grabs headlines but Asia-Europe ties also matter

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Britain’s noisy, self-destructive withdrawal from the EU will dominate this week's agenda

German politics: It could have been worse

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The centre-right CSU and the centre-left SPD lost the state election in Bavaria. This spells some trouble for Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU-SPD coalition in Berlin

Will Italy’s finances shake Europe?

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Five Star leader Di Maio still has not learned that comments which may go down well during an election campaign can easily backfire for a senior politician in office

We must ease the cost burden on Millennials of integrating migrants

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 9, 2018

What is Europe's toughest challenge? Youth unemployment? Populism and Euroscepticism? The future of the eurozone and perhaps of the EU itself? It's none of these, worrying though they are

The EU needs a global leader, not a Spitzenkandidat

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 25, 2018

In years past, when the EU's future leadership was under discussion, the search was at least aimed at finding someone who could win worldwide recognition and respect

“Cool” Germany, really?

By: EBR | Monday, September 24, 2018

The Economist’s recent feature on today’s Germany as a model for all of Europe was fake news. The signs of crisis – mainly a widespread complacency – are already visible in financial markets

Time for Europe to re-evaluate the Nuclear Ban Treaty

By: EBR | Monday, September 24, 2018

In 2017, 122 nations adopted a landmark treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons under international law

A fair European Copyright system fit for the digital age

By: EBR | Thursday, September 20, 2018

On 12 September 2018, European news media closely followed the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Halting the drift between Central and Western Europe

By: EBR | Thursday, September 20, 2018

Two constituencies in Central Europe are essential to countering authoritarian tendencies in the region—and preventing centrist voters from being pushed toward the anti-EU fringe

Oettinger names and shames member states on long-term EU budget cuts

By: EBR | Thursday, September 20, 2018

Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Finland…. The EU’s Budget Commissioner Gunter Oettinger did not hesitate to point the finger at countries reluctant to increase their contributions to the EU’s next seven-year budget during a speech on Wednesday (19 September)

EESC president: MFF proposal is ‘not ambitious enough’

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 19, 2018

The European Economic and Social Committee will discuss on Wednesday the next multi-annual financial framework (MFF) with budget commissioner Gunter Oettinger

Passion, reprimands and angry jibes: Europe's great, hot September

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Whisper it softly: there’s still a glimmer of hope for Europe, still a glimmer of hope in Europe. Long-dormant European liberals and democrats are waking up from their slumber

Ukraine’s incomplete transformation

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 18, 2018

The 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine are not about reform and ending corruption but about the influence of the oligarchs

Brexit deal: Really a replay of the Versailles diktat?

By: EBR | Friday, September 14, 2018

Timothy Garton Ash is wrong: Insisting that EU rules be followed on Brexit is neither an act of stubbornness nor a matter of vindictiveness. It is a matter of European statecraft