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  • How the EU can help Kerry with Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 07 August 2013
    How the EU can help Kerry with Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
  • Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
    Insight by Charles Grant, 02 August 2013
    Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
  • Edward Snowden's '1984'
    Bulletin article by Ian Bond, 24 July 2013
    Edward Snowden's '1984'
  • Towards better days in EU-US relations
    Bulletin article by Tomas Valasek, 02 June 2008

    As the field of candidates in the US presidential election dwindles, the future of US foreign policy is becoming clearer. The changes, as seen from Europe, will be mostly for the better.
  • Let's hear it for the Transatlantic Economic Council
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 23 May 2008

    Some institutions get less attention than they deserve. Arguably, one of these is the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC). On May 13th 2008 it met for the second time since its launch in 2007.
  • Time for the Export-Weltmeister to start consuming
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 13 February 2008

    Too many Europeans are blaming the US for the economic slowdown in Europe, as if everything would have been fine if only the Americans were not so irresponsible. This is complacent.
  • Poland’s bold new foreign policy
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 February 2008

    For the rest of Europe, the worst thing about Poland’s Law and Justice government, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was its foreign policy. His approach towards Russia, Germany and (sometimes) the EU – supported by his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski – was confrontational.

  • Don't be fooled: Bali was no breakthrough
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 18 December 2007

    The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali produced as much as it was ever likely to do. There was no breakthrough, contrary to the claims of some that attended the conference.
  • Could the euro rule supreme? It's not worth it
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    Financial Times, 27 November 2007

    In the 1970s, John Connally, President Richard Nixon's treasury secretary, famously quipped to a group of visiting Europeans that "the dollar may be our currency, but it's your problem".
  • The euro as the world’s reserve currency?
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 15 November 2007

    Back in the 1970s President Nixon’s treasury secretary, John Connally, famously quipped that “the dollar may be our currency, but it’s your problem”.
  • A new deal with Russia?
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Prospect, 01 November 2007

    "The Soviet Union was easier to deal with than Russia is today," says a senior French diplomat. "Sometimes the Soviets were difficult, but you knew they were being obstructive in order to achieve an objective. Now Russia seeks to block the west systematically on every subject, apparently without a purpose."