Editorials

This verse by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire "On the Mirabeau Bridge" has transported some observers. The Greek vote was firstly driven by its across-the-board rejection of a political class that has brought the country to its knees. Because until 2011 Greece's successive governments...

The formidable mass rising of the French people against the attacks in Paris matches its attachment to Freedom that has been flouted and assaulted. It has been followed by millions of others in the world, in all places where this word is interpreted in the same way and particularly within Europe...

2014 has brightened the horizon for the European Union With the institutions elected afresh, new policies to revive the economy and also a new strategic context, the situation that Europeans find at the start of 2015 has changed considerably. Will this be the year of recovery? How far will it be...

This year all of the European institutions will have been re-appointed afresh. It is said that they are now more "political". What does this mean? A straight reading of this imposed by some is certainly not the right one. With this they aim to move forward democratically but they are...