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Articles of the author Noah Barkin
Wooing Germany: Macron team debates euro zone reform tactics
In the days before Emmanuel Macron traveled to Berlin in March to meet Angela Merkel, people in his entourage debated what message he should send to the German chancellor. Some urged him to lay out a clear quid pro quo on Europe, explaining reforms (...)

10 - 05 - 2017
Pence fails to quell Europe's anxiety over Trump
ONE month into the unusual presidency of Donald Trump, his most senior Cabinet members were deployed to Brussels, Bonn and Munich this week to reassure nervous Europeans that everything would be okay. The Europeans heard from Defense Secretary James (...)

20 - 02 - 2017
Trump could be tonic for Europe's ailing left
It has been a bleak winter for Europe's long-suffering left. In the span of less than two months, Francois Hollande, Matteo Renzi and Sigmar Gabriel, the center-left leaders of France, Italy and Germany, have all fallen on their swords. Britain's (...)

29 - 01 - 2017
Davos elites struggle for answers as Trump era dawns
THE global economy is in better shape than it's been in years. Stock markets are booming, oil prices are on the rise again and the risks of a rapid economic slowdown in China, a major source of concern a year ago, have eased. And yet, as political (...)

16 - 01 - 2017
Still unbeatable? Truck attack shows Merkel's vulnerability
For months, Germany's Angela Merkel has looked like the one safe bet in European politics. As Britain's David Cameron, Italy's Matteo Renzi and France's Francois Hollande all succumbed to the scorn of angry voters, the German chancellor promised to (...)

22 - 12 - 2016
Politics may change European economic policy
SLOWLY but surely, the economic policy tide in Europe is turning, and it may only be a matter of time before Germany is swept up. By adding its voice this week to the long list of institutions pressing Germany to spend more, the European Commission (...)

21 - 11 - 2016
Who do you hate the least? The dilemma for French
In Michel Houellebecq's bleak satirical novel "Submission", the French political order is turned on its head after the soul-crushing re-election in 2017 of Francois Hollande, the most unpopular president the country has ever seen. "A strange, (...)

18 - 08 - 2016
Merkel, Hollande closing the growth gap
Reuters Just over a week before French voters choose their president, a tentative pas de deux has begun between Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel which seems likely to result in a new pact to boost growth in Europe if the Socialist comes out on (...)

29 - 04 - 2012
Germany hedges bets on French presidential vote
Reuters After publicly throwing her weight behind Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election campaign at the start of the year, Germany's Angela Merkel and her advisers are quietly preparing for the possibility that they may have to do business with his (...)

25 - 03 - 2012
Thinking backwards, Merkel hits her stride
Reuters Angela Merkel has come under fire in Europe for failing to provide leadership in the euro zone crisis, but at home she is now riding a tidal wave of popularity that would make her fellow leaders envious. Merkel always thinks backwards (...)

18 - 02 - 2012
No ‘grand bargain' means more stress
Reuters THE euro zone has agreed to take a big leap forward in economic integration, but failed to deliver a convincing answer to investors worried about its ability to tackle threatening debt crises in Italy and Spain. As a result, the deal (...)

11 - 12 - 2011
Crisis to haunt Europe's leaders
The global financial crisis has given European leaders an unexpected political boost, but those gains could vanish as quickly as they came once recession takes hold and jobless rates start to creep up across the bloc. British Prime Minister Gordon (...)

01 - 11 - 2008
Risks abound as Merkel presses peace in Georgia
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken on one of her most delicate diplomatic challenges to date by injecting herself into the centre of talks on resolving the military showdown between Russia and Georgia. Merkel, who showed her skills as a (...)

18 - 08 - 2008
Europe's governments immune to Obama-fever
EUROPEAN fans will cheer on US presidential candidate Barack Obama as he visits Berlin, Paris and London this week, but governments wary of his inexperience and evolving policies fear the euphoria is overdone. Largely an unknown quantity in Europe, (...)

22 - 07 - 2008
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