In welcoming Turkey’s presidential dictator for a state visit, the EU’s largest member nation is exploring the limits of self-humiliation. A working visit would be quite enough.
Brexitdämmerung? Not Really
Not just the Tories, but Emmanuel Macron and Jeremy Corbyn highlight how big the gap between Britain and the EU remains.
12 Rules for How Not to Negotiate a Successful Brexit
Why the UK’s Brexit strategy is such a terrible failure diplomatically.
EU Summit: Too Early for a Brexit Deal
UK politicians should not overrate the current attempt by the EU27 to be nice to Theresa May.
Paul Manafort’s Europe Connection
Former European leaders took secret cash for their engagement in Ukraine. Will that have consequences?
“Cool” Germany, Really?
The Economist’s recent feature on today’s Germany as a model for all of Europe was fake news. The signs of crisis – mainly a widespread complacency – are already visible in financial markets.
The Europeanization of the Anti-Europeans
The big prize being eyed by the anti-European and xenophobic parties are the elections to the European Parliament next May.
UK: Slave to Europe?
With Brexit, the British government remains depressingly out of touch with the world.
Boorish Johnson, Domestic Terrorist
Do the disgusting comments Boris Johnson hurled at Theresa May finally mark the end of Boris Johnson’s career in British politics? Might emigration to Trump’s America be his only option?
Brexit Deal: Really a Replay of the Versailles Diktat?
Timothy Garton Ash is wrong: Insisting that EU rules be followed on Brexit is neither an act of stubbornness nor a matter of vindictiveness. It is a matter of European statecraft.























