• Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Prospect, 12 December 2012

    Greek newspapers like to portray German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Nazi uniform. The Italian daily Libero has greeted her with a rude Vaffanmerkel! on its cover.

  • Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 26 November 2012

    Although Germany’s next general election is not scheduled until October 2013, the campaign started in earnest on 28 September 2012.

  • Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Guardian, 07 November 2012

    The vexed EU budget is supposed to be the main topic of discussion when Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, meets David Cameron for supper on Wednesday in Downing Street.

  • Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Globalist, 31 October 2012

    Plenty of policy makers and analysts in the United States and the United Kingdom think Germany is destroying the euro. The Germans think they are saving it. Clearly, they both can't be right.

  • Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 25 October 2012

    The euro crisis is changing the shape of the EU. As the countries in the eurozone seek to strengthen it by centralising economic policy making, three tiers are emerging within the union.

  • Insight by Tomas Valasek, 24 October 2012

    The crisis is fuelling separatism in Spain and Belgium. But elsewhere in Europe separatists do poorly. Scotland's example may yet discourage others from following Catalonia and Flanders.

  • Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Prospect, 17 October 2012

    12th September 2012, 10am in Germany. Bond traders in London and Frankfurt are staring at their screens. Once again, the fate of the eurozone seems to be hanging in the balance.

  • Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Foreign Policy - En espanol, 16 October 2012

    Antes de convertirse en presidente de Francia, François Hollande no parecía estar muy interesado en la UE. Sin embargo, en su juventud fue un protegido de Jacques Delors, el gran europeo de la izquierda francesa, y su instinto es, en términos generales, europeísta.