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Europe Articles

Patience is in short supply and populism reigns

By the time the polls across Greece closed, the Greeks had comprehensibly given their verdict on the economic policies applied over the last few years and the political elites that ruled the country since the mid-1970s. It was an overwhelming rejection of the past,...

A red herring, damp squib, counterfeit and false prospectus

David Cameron’s much-vaunted commitment to reform the European Union has always been extremely light on detail. At first glance, this seems odd. Why announce a major policy with great fanfare, then spend two years dodging and refusing requests to spell out what you...

Merkel’s message to Cameron

When Angela Merkel arrives for talks in London tomorrow she will no doubt be publicly supportive of Britain’s continued membership of the European Union. She has previously made clear Britain is a valued member of the EU and that Germany wants Britain to stay in. On...

There is no third way

Peter Mandelson’s speech at the IPPR’s conference on policy priorities for the next European Commission was his second intervention in as many days following the launch of Policy Network’s Laying the Foundations for a Labour Century report. It was a speech from a...