Editorials

Announcements of economic recovery plans are mushrooming. In their efforts to face the financial crisis EU Member States have mobilised 1,800 billion euro in guarantees, twice the amount put forward by the USA. For the recovery there will not be any European economic pilot since the diversity...

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...