European Union
Macron and the uprooting of France
For months the world has waited with bated breath for Emmanuel Macron to save France, Europe and democracy by succeeding in his outwardly improbable campaign to become the next…
Commentary
European politics: The young centrists strike back
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review.
Hervé Lemahieu
Post-Brexit: Will the Kingdom stay united?
British Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to send the formal notice to Brussels that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union within the next two years has…
How Erdogan makes EU opprobrium work in his favour
The recent standoff between Turkey and several European countries shocked the world. For the first time in NATO and EU history, a member (or member candidate, in the case of…
Finally, good news for the European Union
Three major recent developments appear to indicate that the EU, at long last, is on the up again: solid growth in the EU; the populist wave apparently cresting with…
The EU shouldn’t strike a Turkey-style deal with Libya
Last week, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that EU member states are not obliged to issue humanitarian visas to asylum seekers at their overseas missions. A humanitarian…
European defence policy after Trump and Brexit
While international attention, especially from financial markets, is focused on how well nationalist-populist right movements in various EU member states perform in upcoming…
Theresa May’s Brexit cherry-picking is doomed to fail
In her two recent Brexit speeches, one delivered in London to the representatives of the 27 other EU-members and a second delivered two days later at Davos, May insisted that she…
The British left must rediscover its internationalism
When the United Kingdom first applied to join the European Common Market in the 1960s, the great Clement Attlee, former Labour PM, rose in the House of Lords to argue against…
EU-Turkey relations: A decade of reversals
After the European parliament’s overwhelming vote to freeze Turkey’s EU accession process, the European Council summit that will get underway later today in Brussels will debate…