Time for the UK to leave the European Defence Agency
Here are five very good reasons why the UK should withdraw from the EDA
- 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?
- 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
- 27 August 2012
Time for a Minister for Manufacturing?
Creating a Minister for Manufacturing could be the most important reshuffle decision Cameron makes
- 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
- 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"
- 18 July 2012
Is Germany on the brink of isolation?
Is Germany facing a new Triple Entente from France, Spain and Italy?
- 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
- 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"
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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...
- 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?
- 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
- 14 December 2011
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