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Oct 25, 2025
Like many leaders facing dire straits domestically, French President Macron hoped his control of foreign policy might allow him to claw back some of his lost prestige.
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Oct 14, 2025
The serial travails of the dying Macron presidency may be dominating the headlines, but the profound dysfunction of Germany’s coalition government holds its own perils for...
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Oct 1, 2025
The European Union’s schoolmarm in chief, Ursula von der Leyen, has called her unruly charges together this week in Copenhagen, where she will rap knuckles and extract...
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Sep 3, 2025
The EU is justly proud of the liberal democracies it nurtured as it expanded beyond its original founding members. Greece, Spain and Portugal shed their authoritarian pasts and...
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Aug 1, 2025
Much has been made of the lopsided deal Ursula von der Leyen struck with Donald Trump, which among other things traded zero tariffs on US goods for a 15 per cent tax on EU exports to...
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Jun 30, 2025
The spectacular raid on Fordow nuclear complex showed Europe the limits of multilateral diplomacy when confronted with irreconcilable demands.
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Apr 14, 2025
Europe pays regular obeisance to remembering “the lessons of the past.” Meaning of course the enormity of the Nazi years, which serves both to discipline the political...
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Jan 27, 2025
Anyone who still doubts that Donald Trump has a wicked sense of humour need only consider his chosen ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder, recent CEO of the Hardee’s and...
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Jan 10, 2025
A performative fury erupted across Europe when the dread Elon Musk not only endorsed Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), but agreed to host an extended interview on X with...
