Economic crisis

Europe’s Galápagos moment

  • Mark Leonard
  • Commentary

It may be that Europe’s postmodern order has become so advanced and particular to its environment that it is impossible for others to follow

The British problem – View from the Capitals

  • Olaf Boehnke, Piotr Buras, Silvia Francescon, Mark Leonard, Vessela Tcherneva, José Ignacio Torreblanca
  • Video

The heads of five of our national offices explain their national perspectives on a possible Brexit

The incurable European

  • Susi Dennison
  • Video

Diplomat Robert Cooper, UK PSC Ambassador Angus Lapsley and ECFR's Susi Dennison, explore where and how the UK has influenced European foreign policy decision making in 2014

The battle of Europe’s utopias

  • Francisco de Borja Lasheras
  • Commentary

The EU’s austerity policies have led to a fragmentation of its power, encouraging the rise of populist parties

How Berlin contributed to Tsipras’s victory

  • Sebastian Dullien
  • Commentary

Germany should have offered debt relief to Greece when it had the chance, and the consequences of its mistake could be serious for Europe

Germany then and now

  • Josef Janning
  • Commentary

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

15 Jul

European Spring: How to put our economies and politics right?

  • ECFR London

With European economies failing to deliver higher standards of living, and growing public disillusionment with apparently self-serving politicians, Philippe Legrain discusses where things have gone wrong in Europe and how to put them right, and explores the need for a European Spring in order to rejuvenate the continent.