If there is a bright side to the turmoil that has roiled the global economy since 2008, it is that not every part of the world has erupted simultaneously. The first blow was the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, to which Europeans responded with self-satisfied r

So far, the Volkswagen scandal has played out according to a well-worn script.

The largest unresolved issue in the European Union is mobility.The integration process was intended to make it easier and more attractive for Europeans to move from one country to another.

Europe’s ongoing malaise has reignited the old debate over which form of government produces better economic performance.Are authoritarian regimes, with their ability to ram through unpopular choices, more effective at generating growth?Or does liberal democracy, with its built i

Niccolò Machiavelli is trending. More than 500 years after writing his famous treatise “The Prince”, Machiavelli has reemerged as one of Europe’s most popular political thinkers. And, indeed, his book — one of the earliest political “how to&

Though a solution to the euro crisis continues to elude European leaders, the foundations of one are not difficult to discern.

The proximity of the 70th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference, which established the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to historical anniversaries like the Allied landings in Normandy highlights just how ambitious its organisers were.