What is a Cleggservative foreign policy?
Forget reputations. Britain’s new coalition government of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats will temper its foreign policy approach with a healthy dose of pragmatism.
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A blow to European exceptionalism
The Euro crisis shows again that the EU needs international institutions like the IMF. This is giving observers from the developing world grim satisfaction that Europe is not as exceptional as it might like to think.
Europe without Europeans
Of all the problems facing Europe, one seems very difficult to solve: demographic forecasts, added to political ones, point to a Europe without Europeans
Wollen wir unseren alten Kaiser wiederhaben?
Deutsche Sehns?chte nach normalisiertem Umgang mit dem eigenem Nationalgef?hl sind t?richt und gef?hrlich
Holes in the cheese
Nuclear crises require a lot of unlikely events to occur at once, like all the holes in slices of Gruy?re cheese lining up. But as the nuclear ambitions of the Iranian president remind us, that is not a reason to ignore the perils of atomic weapons.
Downfall
Volcanoes, Greek tragedy and government collapses. Divine intervention? Not entirely – greed and stupidity play a big part.
Nick Clegg and a very European election
The emergence of Nick Clegg in the British election campaign means Europe is an issue that can no longer be ignored by the other candidates
A responsible government must re-examine Trident
Tomorrow night?s foreign policy Leaders? Debate will cover a lot of ground, and Trident will no doubt be discussed. Nick Witney argues that a post-election defence review that does not include Trident is irresponsible and absurd.
Will Europe rise to the Eyjafjallajokull challenge?
The eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano has created transport chaos, but the EU can lead the way in finding a trans-national solution to a cross-border crisis
Despatches from a presidency in limbo
Summit after summit. Is the Spanish Presidency of the European Union running out of legs?