Give Greece a chance… again
Angela Merkel must not amputate the Greeks from the eurozone.
Future of Europe
How to avoid a Grexit
Greece needs to make reforms if it is to return to growth, and it is more likely that this will happen inside the euro than outside. The key is to reactivating the logic that has worked so many times before in Europe: solidarity in exchange for reforms.
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Towards more effective global security governance through UN@EU cooperation
The complexity of current security threats requires that the UN work more closely with regional organisations, including the EU, through improved cooperation and partnerships in several areas, such as conflict prevention, crisis management, peacekeeping and peace-building.
The euro: uncertainty about tomorrow, but plans for 2025
We do not know what is going to happen to the Greeks and the Euro zone in less than a week, but the EU’s institutions are already thinking and planning ahead for 2025.
We should welcome a Greek referendum
Let democracy concentrate minds in Athens — and in Brussels. The Greek population needs a referendum, and if Brussels and Berlin want a yes vote, they still have two weeks for changing their narrative.
The Long Road to Europe: Spain and the European Community, 1957-1986
This article seeks to commemorate thirty years of Spanish membership of the European Union by providing an account of the evolution of the country’s relationship with the European integration process from its origins to the moment of accession in 1986.
The ‘New Turkey’ that was not in Erdogan’s plans: the aftermath of the critical June 2015 elections
A significant point of the latest Turkey parliamentary elections is that Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not have enough support in Parliament to change the Constitution and the regime, at least for the time being.
Turkey’s elections: AKP loses absolute majority, thwarts Erdogan’s bid for executive presidency
Turkey’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its absolute parliamentary majority for the first time since sweeping to power in 2002, and with it Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambition for greater power by changing the constitution to become an executive president.
The Odd Anatomy of the Euro
If the Euro were a person, how would it look like? The Euro would be an orphan child because it does not have a state to protect it.
Goodbye to an ever closer EU, or perhaps not?
David Cameron wants a looser EU and powers to be repatriated from Brussels the next time the treaties are reformed. He is not alone in wanting that.
A united Europe is closer than you think
Europe’s main political divide is not between those for or against the EU, but between those who are more cosmopolitan and those who would like to withdraw behind their national borders.
A less united and less European UK: ¿Brexit and break it?
Brexit and break-up will be very much at centre-stage in the United Kingdom over the next legislature.