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Ukraine is in such a mess because western experts underestimated Russia on many levels. Now they are underestimating the Brics+.

05 November 2024

Don't underestimate the Brics

The EU referendum in Moldova and the elections in Georgia should give the EU a pause for thought.

30 October 2024

They don't all want to be with us

Austerity is a bad idea. For parties of the left to embrace it is suicidal.

22 October 2024

A cautionary tale from Germany

Russia is winning the Ukraine war because it has moved over to a war economy. Time for a strategic re-think in the West.

15 October 2024

Russia’s war economy

Europe's far-right parties are all different. The Austrian variant is particularly nasty.

08 October 2024

Who is Herbert Kickl?

Sahra Wagenknecht, a politician of the left with themes of the right, is the new power broker in German politics

01 October 2024

A spectre is haunting Germany

The Franco-German relationship is not what it used to be. The two countries are growing apart.

26 September 2024

End of a beautiful friendship

The EU's has an entered an era of secular economic decline and is politically too gridlocked to reverse it.

17 September 2024

An existential threat to the EU

The main consequences of far-right political victories is political gridlock. First in France, now in Germany.

13 September 2024

Worry about the centre, not the far-right

A trade war with China is now very likely, but not in Europe's best interest

03 September 2024

EU vs China

The Ukraine war may have gone into another phase but is heading towards its final stretch.

20 August 2024

How the war will end

Giorgia Meloni said she wants to change the EU from within. This is not going to happen. What will she do next?

26 July 2024

Myth of changing EU from within

There is a room for improvement in the UK-EU relationship. But not as much as you might think.

23 July 2024

Call me Keir

Emmanuel Macron's spontaneous dissolution of parliament could have dire consequences for the EU.

16 July 2024

Can there be a French debt crisis?

Starmer is right that the UK will not return to the EU in his lifetime, but for the wrong reasons.

08 July 2024

How likely is a Brexit reversal?

The west's hypocrisy is on show after the decision by the ICC prosecutor to go after Benjamin Netanyahu

29 May 2024

A court for Africans only

The media and the students are on opposite sides for the first time. The result is that students no longer read what we do.

21 May 2024

The students and us

Spain's political culture is more toxic than elsewhere. Here is an attempt to trace the historical origins.

14 May 2024

Where the hate comes from

The money is there, it is earning interest, and it is awfully tempting. Yet, the raid on Russian reserves is wrong.

07 May 2024

Raiding Russia's Reserves

Olaf Scholz thinks that Germany can preserve its special relationship with China. He has not thought this through.

30 April 2024

Friends with China