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Creating effective policies for including immigrants is vital if the EU is to meet its ambitious Lisbon Agenda targets on employment and competitiveness; and for reaping the wider benefits of…
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EU countries collectively spend almost 180 billion EUR per year on defence; more than half the US total of 330 billion EUR, and have many more men under arms. Yet…
At the same time, a growing conceptual gap is emerging between Russia and the West. Europe has long sought to build common values by placing human rights at the heart…
Forex traders thought otherwise. A few days after we met, Professor Yu’s comments at Davos on the floating of the yuan sparked another wave of selling. Of course, Yu Yongding…
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In their recent comments on your pages, William Pfaff and Viktor Erofeyev have once again over-simplified the analysis of Vladimir Putin's Russia. Their basic premise is sound: The West should…
There’s no need to exaggerate the problem: the figures speak for themselves. Trains on the UK’s Virgin West Coast line were delayed by an average of seven minutes each in…
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The French president may be trying to make a link between the failed referendum in France and the UK rebate, but that wasn't his tune before the vote. As long…
During his European tour in February 2005, President Bush bluntly warned European leaders that they must "sell" the lifting of the arms ban to Congress or face retaliation in the…
The economic rationale for greater collaboration has clearly helped to push longstanding political differences aside. India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, admitted as much with his recent statement that, “ultimately, foreign…
Four years later, I celebrated Schröder's second general election victory in London and, on that occasion, felt nothing more than a surge of relief. This time around, though it pains…