Commentary

Why Britain needs the euro

Andrew Duff explains why the time has come for Britain to decide to join the euro

Getting Afghanistan Off Drugs

Destroying the poppy fields hasn’t worked. The US should focus on long-term development to solve Afghanistan’s drug problem.

The Eastern Partnership in crisis

What is the likely impact of the crisis on the Eastern Partnership, the attempt to resuscitate the European neighbourhood policy and focus EU’s political attention on the East?

Overwhelming Logic

Spain?s decision to withdraw from Kosovo will come at a high price to its international image

Peripheral care should be the central concern

Unless the G20 summit comes up with practical measures to support the less developed countries, markets are going to suffer another sinking spell

Nuke Proliferation Stirs

As the world is approaching a new chapter in the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Iran and North Korea require a coordinated response, warns Fran?ois Godement

The others

There are two kinds of European in the continent today; those who have Europe and those who want it

A complicated relationship

Following France?s return to NATO military command this week, relations between Paris and Berlin remain complex