Affairs / Politics
Forecast 2010: Politics
Where will things kick off in 2010? Will anyone manage to make a new country in the new year? Or oust a tyrant? Or even manage to join the EU?
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Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 23 October
A Euro crisis without leaders
When Tony Blair was, briefly, in the running to become the first president of the European Union, the UK’s then foreign secretary, David Miliband, pushed Blair’s case by arguing the new role needed to be filled by someone…
Affairs / Politics
Pole position
His cosmopolitan background and bullish enthusiasm for the EU have made Poland’s foreign minister a key voice in European politics. Now Radek Sikorski is urging Europe to learn the hard lessons of its own history.
Affairs / Politics
Europe briefing
We get to grips with the Belgian PM's colourful sense of style. Plus a Q&A with European Commissioner Karel de Gucht and news from Lisbon and Liechtenstein.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 13 June
Every EU country bends the rules
Every club needs rules and the European Union is no exception. It has quite a few, in fact.
The Globalist, episode 157
Reactions to Angela Merkel’s support of a European banking union, we check in with our correspondent in Delhi, and review the day’s newspapers.
Edits / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 27 August
How to spot Nordic friends
It’s good for small countries to stick together. Now everyone thinks I am going to start going on about the European Union – whereas I actually want to talk about the smaller union of Nordic countries.
The Globalist, episode 158
We chat with Christine Ockrent about a possible European banking union, get the latest from our woman in Delhi, and review newspapers with Neil McIntosh.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Sunday 9 January
The EU’s urge to be friends with Beijing
With half the Christmas presents opened in Europe last month having started life on Chinese production lines, it seems only fair that the European Union should want to sell more of its own goods to the moneyed Chinese and…
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Monday 5 October
Copping the flak
The European Union has just confirmed what anyone manning a checkpoint, and dodging bullets, in Kandahar or Lashkar Gah could have told you already: that policing in Afghanistan is probably the most dangerous job in the…
Design / Architecture
Home visit
The origami roof of the new Copenhagen Center for Cancer and Health suggests that this is no ordinary hospital. Nord Architects have created a healing environment with thoughtful, original strokes. Their bold design won…
The Globalist: Asia, episode 14
As the European Union seems ready to lift sanctions on Burma, we discuss if this is the right time. Plus, the latest business news from Hong Kong, and we hear how the smart-phone era is influencing the investigation of…
Edits / Politics
King for a day
Less than four years after joining the European Union, and having adopted the euro just under a year ago, Slovenia will take on the rotating EU presidency in the first half of 2008. It is a massive challenge for a country…
Affairs / Politics
Future states
The national identity of countries can shift radically and at a speed that leaves their inhabitants gasping: think of the former Soviet Union. Here leading thinkers consider what might, or should, change in the way nations…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 14 January
Europe’s lost generation
It was one of the most impressive cross-party gatherings of British politicians in some time: a prime minister at the height of his power and popularity, from the opposition a former chancellor and deputy prime minister …
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 21 December
Forecast 2011: Embattled euro to face another turbulent year
The euro ended 2010 with panic subsiding about a break-up of the 11-year-old currency region, but it still faces stiff tests in 2011 over the long-term viability of the EU dream of breaking down economic barriers and cre…
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Sunday 17 October
The red sludge aftermath
The red sludge that engulfed towns and villages after a reservoir burst at MAL’s aluminium plant in Ajka, western Hungary, is steadily being cleared away but its toxic legacy remains.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Saturday 12 December
Abkhazia: a de facto province of Russia
The campaign posters have long been up on every billboard and lamppost, the candidates have been giving impassioned press conferences and trading accusations, and now the motley crew of “international” election observers…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 2 May
What UK politics can learn from Hungary
As Gordon Brown blunders his way across Britain, party spin-doctors have called in Stephen Hopkins, director of the nail-biting television series 24, to take charge of election videos. But Labour should be looking to Hun…