Editorials

Political Europe seems to have come to a standstill. The most recent European Council illustrated this. It is having trouble in making decisions. Elections succeed one another, after which coalitions force, extremes impede the situation and the traditional parties are suffering a lot. And yet...

Having reached an exceptional degree of stability and prosperity, because of their shared sovereignty, Europeans now hesitate to go further. The financial crises have come and gone, geopolitical upheaval also. Now fundamental questions are being raised about the efficacy of European integration,...

Sometimes I have been criticised for not giving enough examples to illustrate my train of thought, which is however drawn from experience. Here is one that summarises perfectly my calls to provide the European Union with the attributes of its power in the world arena. Air transport is not governed...

Of the divisions that have emerged within the European Union the most serious of these is undoubtedly the one now dividing the East and the West. With the exception of the exemplary Baltic States, which are lively democracies reinvented after a period of Soviet occupation, a club of Member States,...