Editorials

There is one rule in life: never forget where you come from. On 9 May 1950, a major strategic shift was proposed by the then French Foreign Affairs Minister, Robert Schuman. Pooling what Europeans were still fighting over after two fratricidal wars that had set the world ablaze was a crazy idea....

King Charles III’s visit to the United States was a great success, both in Europe and in America. With his characteristic class and the humour that only the British are capable of – both courteous and caustic, biting yet polite – he missed no opportunity to have his say to a...

The heads of state and government meeting in Cyprus have made reference to Article 42.7 of the Treaty on European Union, which establishes a mutual defence clause. This provision has only been invoked once, and that was by France following the terrorist attacks of 2015. It is binding because it...

We knew that America’s attention had turned to China, which is challenging its primacy, but we did not realise that the Trump administration hated Europe to such an extent. Claims over Greenland, insults, provocations, discriminatory tariffs, abandoning Ukraine, support for Eurosceptics, a...