Tagged with "germany"

Time for the UK to leave the European Defence Agency

Here are five very good reasons why the UK should withdraw from the EDA
by Luke Coffey - 21 September 2012
Borrow and spend? Cui bono?

Again the call goes up for the government to borrow more and spend more, but to whose benefit are the calls for?
by Simon Miller - 31 August 2012
Germany’s Dark Vision for Europe

It’s difficult to have much optimism for Europe’s future when the entire German political establishment blindly thinks there should be more centralization, bureaucratization, and harmonization in the EU
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 27 August 2012
Time for a Minister for Manufacturing?

Creating a Minister for Manufacturing could be the most important reshuffle decision Cameron makes
by Peter Botting - 22 August 2012
Slipping out of joint: the very public madness of modern Europe

One of the great paradoxes is that the Greeks love a single currency that harms them, while the Germans, whom it (sort of) benefits, deplore it
by Robin Shepherd, Owner / Publisher - 31 July 2012
Banning circumcision in Germany

After district court bans circumcision Chancellor Merkel warns against becoming "only country in the world where Jews cannot practise their rituals"
by Saba Farzan - 18 July 2012
Is Germany on the brink of isolation?

Is Germany facing a new Triple Entente from France, Spain and Italy?
by Dr. Emanuele Canegrati - 28 June 2012
Voting underway in Greece but euro finished whatever the outcome

It all appears to be on a knife-edge but whichever party wins, the euro's dead man walking anyway
by The Commentator - 17 June 2012
The Populism of the third way is a cancer now starting to kill

Easy answers and hypocrisy delivered with a little spin are no longer sufficient to weather the storm. We cannot continue under the populism of "the third way"
by Benjamin Harris-Quinney - 12 June 2012
Germany will still sell us her BMWs if we change our relationship with the EU

The scare tactics of the euro-enthusiasts are facile. We won't lose out economically if we quit the EU
by Sir John Redwood MP - 5 June 2012
Stop worrying about Greece leaving the euro. It won’t happen

What are we all worrying about? Greece won't leave the Euro - Jean-Claude Juncker says so.
by John Phelan - 22 May 2012
French socialist victory is a disaster for Europe, but typical of our times

Both contestants were appalling, but France now signals the path to oblivion
by The Commentator - 6 May 2012
2012: After the apocalypse

The Maya got it spot on; this is it for us. But the story of what happens next brings with it an eerie sense of deja vu, and perhaps a lesson at the end...
by Adrian Moss - 11 January 2012
Europe's looming defense crisis is a threat to NATO

When Europe eventually emerges from this economic crisis, will they have the militaries necessary to help America lead?
by Patrick Christy - 5 January 2012
The European Union and the rule of rules

If the Eurozone is serious about fiscal union, it would appear that it must, in the long-term, rest on laws rather than on rules, and that requires the possibility of force
by Jonathan Neumann - 14 December 2011