Europe races to confront America’s trade war
THE COUNTRIES of the European Union are divided over defence, economic policy, trade, China and much else. This does not make...
Inside Europe, border checks are creeping back
LOBITH, NEAR where the river Rhine enters the Netherlands, has been a border town ever since northern Europe has had borders....
Meet Europe’s Gaullists, Atlanticists, denialists and Putinists
Can a country still call itself an ally of America if America is threatening to annex part of its territory? Such a question ...
The EU is worried about sensitive exports to competitors and foes
NOT SO LONG ago, the countries that restricted outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) were usually relatively poor ones, dr...
A day of drama in the Bundestag
RARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar, a tiny majority of German mps backed a five-...
Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling
THE FINAL battle for the small Donbas town of Velyka Novosilka dragged on for six days, though the outcome was obvious long b...
The French government’s survival is now in Socialist hands
THREE YEARS ago the French Socialist Party was crushed into irrelevance. The party that supplied two modern presidents—Franço...
Europe faces a new age of gunboat digital diplomacy
In an era dominated by tech giants worth trillions of dollars, no European firm started from scratch in the past 50 years is ...
Germans are growing cold on the debt brake
WHAT DO Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz, the Bundesbank, the imf, the OECD, Germany’s biggest trade union, its state-appointed cou...
The Pope and Italy’s prime minister tussle over Donald Trump
Conflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s ...