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Articles of the author Paul Taylor
Paradise lost? The decline of the European ideal
After years of dodging bullets and muddling through, the European Union has taken one in the chest with Britain's referendum vote to leave the prosperous continental club. Worse, the bullet cannot be extracted immediately to enable the body politic (...)

04 - 08 - 2016
Turkey's bungled putsch: A strangely 20th century coup
IT was a strangely 20th century coup, defeated by 21st century technology and people power. When a self-styled military "Peace Council" tried to topple Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his government on Friday night, the rebel generals and (...)

18 - 07 - 2016
EU authority fraying in reaction to Brexit vote
THE European Union's authority is fraying as governments and politicians in many members challenge EU policies and take aim at "Brussels bureaucracy" in the aftermath of Britain's vote to leave the 28-nation bloc. The Czech president and some (...)

06 - 07 - 2016
Brexit would leave EU less liberal, less Atlanticist
A European Union without Britain would be financially poorer, less economically liberal and free-trading, less Atlanticist and less open to further enlargement. A British vote to leave the 28-nation EU in a referendum on June 23 would not only deal (...)

09 - 06 - 2016
Shaky EU-Turkey deal faces tough reality checks
A deal between the European Union and Turkey meant to curb the flow of migrants into Europe in return for financial and political rewards could unravel within months because neither side looks able to deliver on its commitments. Turkish Prime (...)

20 - 03 - 2016
Trump without the hair? EU's migration policy gets rough
Europe's emerging migration policy is looking increasingly like Donald Trump without the hair. Except that, unlike the Republican presidential frontrunner, who wants to make Mexico pay for a wall to keep migrants out of the United States, the (...)

17 - 03 - 2016
EU's Tower of Babel may fall while leaders are distracted
It's little wonder the European Union can't find common solutions to Europe's urgent problems when its main members are having such different national conversations. Like the biblical Tower of Babel, Europe's ambitious construction is in danger of (...)

03 - 03 - 2016
‘Project Panic' rather than love may keep Britain in EU
Panic rather than love may keep Britain in the European Union when voters cast their ballots in a referendum, probably in June, on whether to stay in the 28-nation bloc under Prime Minister David Cameron's "new settlement". While few may be swayed (...)

17 - 02 - 2016
EU designs permanent outer circle to keep Britain in
The European Union formally abandoned on Tuesday the founding principle that all of its members are heading toward ever closer integration, only at different speeds. But whether that will be enough to enable Prime Minister David Cameron to win a (...)

04 - 02 - 2016
Wanted: A grand bargain to rescue EU from 'polycrisis'
The European Union needs an ambitious grand bargain at its next summit to rescue itself from an accumulation of crises that threaten to blow apart its model of integration. Like children at a birthday party, each leader has to get a going-home (...)

03 - 02 - 2016
Interests trump values as Europe wrestles with crises
Europe is torn between upholding its values and pursuing its interests in the multiple crises over refugees, challenges to the rule of law, relations with Russia and Turkey, and Britain's membership that are shaking the European Union. Political and (...)

21 - 01 - 2016
Europe's year from hell may presage worse to come
By any measure, it has been a year from hell for the European Union. And if Britons vote to leave the bloc, next year could be worse. Not since 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and communism crumbled across eastern Europe, has the continent's (...)

24 - 12 - 2015
Putin's ‘realpolitik' aims to make Russia indispensable
By intervening in Syria, President Vladimir Putin has broken Russia's relative isolation and is making it the "indispensable nation" in conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and with Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) while the United States balks at deeper (...)

27 - 11 - 2015
Britain needs to start doing favors to win EU friends
The British used to be past masters in the art of trading favors to secure their interests in the European Union. But since 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron's government has largely neglected the practice to avoid upsetting skeptics in his ruling (...)

26 - 11 - 2015
Sarkozy's last best hopes to get off the ropes
Emmanuel Jarry Reuters Behind on points, conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy's last best hopes of re-election are landing a knockout punch in the sole television debate or an eleventh-hour alliance with a popular centrist. No (...)

20 - 04 - 2012
Populist parties rising in Europe
Reuters Europe's economic and debt crisis has boosted populist parties in many countries, making government harder, but political realities are catching up with the angry brigade. Some have hit an electoral ceiling while others are on the way (...)

15 - 04 - 2012
Sarkozy gains in Toulouse shooting
Reuters The shootings of French soldiers and Jewish schoolchildren by a home-grown militant gunman killed by police have upended France's election campaign and resurrected conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's prospects. The first opinion (...)

24 - 03 - 2012
Merkel is stumping for Sarkozy
Reuters Things must be getting desperate if Angela Merkel is intervening in French politics to try to save Nicolas Sarkozy from defeat.The normally cautious German chancellor is taking a big risk by planning campaign appearances in support of the (...)

09 - 02 - 2012
History repeats itself in Europe
Reuters There are weeks when it can sound as if the European sovereign debt crisis is going round in circles. Barbed exchanges between Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and German Chancellor Angela Merkel carry echos of a prolonged dialogue of (...)

25 - 01 - 2012
Cameron isolates Britain from Europe
Reuters David Cameron has put Britain offside and offshore in Europe. In his failed last-minute quest for special treatment over financial regulation, the prime minister has taken Britain out of the room where decisions on the future of Europe (...)

14 - 12 - 2011
Dear President Obama, Europe hopes.....
The European Union has drafted a secret message to be sent to the next president of the United States. Here's what it doesn't say but might: Dear President Obama, Europe has high hopes for you. Almost certainly too high. With the exception of a (...)

06 - 11 - 2008
A different British PM on financial supervision
European officials are rubbing their eyes in disbelief as the British prime minister basks in international admiration as the savior of the global banking system and an apostle of cross-border financial supervision. Is this the same man who in 10 (...)

22 - 10 - 2008
Europe shows limits in credit crisis response
Nicolas Sarkozy's restless activism may have galvanised the European Union into taking the diplomatic lead in the Georgia crisis, but his attempt to assert EU leadership in the financial crisis looks less convincing. Since the credit crunch swept (...)

08 - 10 - 2008
Russian political risk test will come once markets calm
Once the dust settles on the global market earthquake, investors may well decide Russia is just too big to ignore regardless of how far its war in Georgia has damaged its economic and diplomatic relationships. The specific political risks of doing (...)

24 - 09 - 2008
EU gropes for coherent line on China
AS the Beijing Olympic Games highlight China's emergence as a world power, the European Union is struggling to take a coherent approach to the Asian giant. Depending on whom you talk to in Brussels, China is a trade headache, an economic (...)

13 - 08 - 2008
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