Editorials

The way in which Europe will overcome the crisis will decide its long term development into a political union, its governance and, in reality, its place in the world in the 21st century. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has in the space of just a few months provided it with a role that it never...

The summit of the 20 most developed and emerging countries in Washington on 15th November was the sign of a unique consensus with regard to establishing regulation, true transparency and monitoring of the financial system, the lungs of the world economy. We would be wrong to underestimate the...

Europe is expecting a great deal of the election of the new American president. Many Europeans who hope for Obama’s victory also hope that he will put the failures of the Bush administration far behind him. However this cannot be guaranteed. America, whoever is elected on 4th November, will...

The euro is one of Europe's greatest achievements. It has protected it well from many storms by providing the world's leading economy with the currency it needed. It might enable it to provide  thedecisive means to emerge from the financial crisis. The decisions taken by the Eurogroup on...