Time will not prove as kind to Angela Merkel
Time Magazine has named Angela Merkel Person of the Year. She's certainly been Europe's lead actor. But her European policies, in the long term, may well destroy the EU, and add more thunder to those calling for Britain to leave
- 12 December 2015
Merkel set to win Nobel prize after disastrous year for Europe
UPDATE: In the end, it went to the National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia. But why was Merkel even in the running? For bringing social devastation to Europe and exacerbating a refugee crisis that is causing mayhem across the continent?
- 9 October 2015
Germany: The dominating puppet-master of Europe
Under German leadership, the EU has become an aggressive beast, no longer willing to try and secure agreements through concessions and negotiations. This authoritarian logic is inherent in a modern European project now clearly run by Germans
- 12 August 2015
“A German Europe” -- Joschka Fischer speaks out
When even Germany's former foreign minister, the highly influential Joschka Fischer, starts warning of "European protectorates", you know that the EU has entered a frightening and dangerous new phase, which Britain must not be part of
- 5 August 2015
Will Germany pay the Euro’s bills after all?
The euro crisis is really coming to a head now. The key question is whether Germany will ultimately stand behind a currency zone that just doesn't work
- 21 January 2015
Germany is sick, and it's taking Europe down
It was not primarily Greece that wrecked the Eurozone. It was Germany. The country is the real sick man of Europe, and the disease may be terminal
- 18 October 2014
Things are stirring in the EU
The prospect that the EU’s second largest cash-cow might leave the EU altogether could get many countries to club together and at least give Cameron something to sell Britons so as to stay in the EU
- 31 March 2014
Dave, Angela and the UK's relationship with the EU
David Cameron's plans for repatriating powers from Brussels still look too much like waffle, and too little like something meaningful and concrete
- 18 March 2014
Euro madness lost in translation, except in German
The latest cretin level stupidity over Greece is funny, unless you're a German taxpayer... paying for it...
- 26 August 2013
The abdication of Europe’s centre-Right
Genuine competition eludes the mainstream European Left and Right because they have too much in common. The ultimate consequences could be explosive
- 11 August 2013
A European prize for Ireland’s spineless leader
The future of Ireland is 'shredded' as hundreds of thousands pour out. How this all came to pass is becoming more and more a matter of public fury, writes Tom Gallagher
- 30 June 2013
Everyone's a social democrat these days in Europe
Angela Merkel lets the mask slip for what is supposedly the European Right in extolling the "social market economy"...
- 28 June 2013
The German "diktat" and its discontents
The German "diktat" towards austerity is keeping its neighbours afloat. But if Germany changes its mind, all bets are off, and default awaits...
- 31 May 2013
Germany’s election a harbinger for change throughout EU
A hit for Merkel at the polls would continue the travails of right-leaning governments throughout Europe, making the narrative of voters rejecting austerity look irresistible
- 8 April 2013
Nazi flags waved in Cyprus as anti-Germany protests continue
Europeans are taking aim at Germany after the latest raft of austerity across the continent, and the Cypriot bailout, causes social unrest
- 26 March 2013
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