Establishing a European Unemployment Reinsurance Fund carries the risk that it might be used to circumvent unpopular national-level decisions on structural reforms.
Paul Manafort’s Europe Connection
Former European leaders took secret cash for their engagement in Ukraine. Will that have consequences?
UK: Slave to Europe?
With Brexit, the British government remains depressingly out of touch with the world.
Europe’s High-Speed Rail Leaders
Spain, France and Germany have the largest high-speed train networks after China and Japan.
Brexit Deal: Really a Replay of the Versailles Diktat?
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.
Germany and Russia: A Reset?
There are signs of the beginning of a reset in German relations with Russia. But serious impediments to a pragmatic relationship remain.
A Preview of Donald Trump’s Next Speech on Erdogan’s Turkey
Reflections on how to Make Turkey Great Again.
Must Germany Have Yet One More Top Job in Europe?
A German as head of the European Commission? If this is unstoppable, leave the German man who is lined up for the post in Berlin. Instead, send a powerful German woman to Brussels.
High Time for Europe to Wake Up
Why it is in Germany’s own self-interest to take Donald Trump’s policy impulses on trade and defense seriously.
























