Opinion pieces

  • Aliancia nepatrí do múzea, by Tomas Valasek
    SME Daily (Slovakia), 16 May 2012

    Svet bez NATO sa dá predstaviť, ale bola by to chyba. Aj keď teraz je ekonomická kríza väčšou hrozbou ako nedostatok bezpečnosti, nemusí to tak zostať natrvalo.

  • Soccer boycott could kick Ukraine toward reform, by Tomas Valasek
    Bloomberg, 11 May 2012

    If war is a continuation of politics by other means, then so is soccer. That's why European Union leaders are right to use the"beautiful game" to pressure an ugly regime in Ukraine.

  • Would Orwell be pro-European?, by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 01 May 2012

    George Orwell devoted a lot of his writing to how the use of language is intimately connected to the abuse of power by politicians and officials.

  • Ihr selbstgerechten Deutschen!, by Simon Tilford
    Die Zeit, 30 April 2012

    Wenn es um die Krise in der Euro-Zone geht, lautet die herrschende Erzählung in Deutschland wie folgt: Es gibt keine Krise des Euro, denn dieser war ein Erfolg. Wenn einige Staaten im Moment in Schwierigkeiten stecken, dann nur deshalb, weil sie an Wettbewerbsfähigkeit verloren und die Maastricht-Kriterien verletzt haben.

  • Why closing the Irish embassy in Tehran is a mistake, by Edward Burke
    Politico, 24 April 2012

    The recent furore over the closure of closure of the Irish Embassy to the Vatican drowned out any discussion over the withdrawal of other embassies, including that in Tehran last month. Almost unnoticed, Iran has been lumped in with Timor Leste as one of two other Irish diplomatic missions that is surplus to requirements.

  • Is Britain on the way out of Europe?, by Charles Grant
    Social Europe Journal, 20 April 2012

    Ever since they joined the EU in 1973, the British have been sceptical about political integration in Europe. They have valued the economic benefits of membership, notably the single market, but opposed the concept of ‘political union’. The eurozone crisis is now increasing the gap between Britain and much of the rest of the EU.

  • Multilateralism à la Carte, by Charles Grant
    The International Herald Tribune, 16 April 2012

    Many problems cannot be solved without international co-operation, yet "multilateralism" — the system of international institutions and rules intended to promote the common good — appears to be weakening.

  • Die Dreistigkeit der Euro-Zone, by Simon Tilford
    Financial Times Deutschland, 12 April 2012
    Die Politiker und Vordenker der Eurozone haben keinen Zweifel: Durch die Vergrößerung des Rettungsfonds, des Europäischen Stabilitätsmechanismus (ESM), haben sie ihren Teil dazu beigetragen, die Mitglieder der Währungsunion zu stützen, die sich in Schwierigkeiten befinden.