European Power

Europe’s big tax scam

It is hard to believe that Juncker knew nothing of the recent LuxLeaks tax scandal, but political deception is not a better alternatie

Prospects for the Iranian nuclear talks

While the new potential role of Russia boosts​ the chances of a final nuclear deal with Iran, gaps over sanctions relief continue to place doubts over whether this month's deadline can be met

The conflict that will not freeze

Continuous military confrontation in Eastern Ukraine has grave implications for Europe as well as for Ukraine

Germany then and now

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany needs to think about its way of exercising power within the EU – and what it hopes to achieve

An antidote to the French Suicide

Seventy years after the dissolution of the national assembly and in spite of one decade of recovery, France appears to be again in a depressive spiral that nothing seems to stop. 

Where has good old Britain gone?

While the UK used to be on the forefront of human rights, David Cameron's party is poised to change this dramatically with talks of withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights