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France has turned against Macron. Will Europe set the stage for President Le Pen?

In the latest of his visionary speeches on the future of Europe, Emmanuel Macron called for the EU to transform itself into a military power or face...

01.05.2024 40

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Ursula von der Leyen can run, but can she also hide?

Ursula von der Leyen became president of the European Commission in a backroom deal in 2019 without facing Europe’s voters. Now she is running for...

17.04.2024 20

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

First Dog on the Moon Tanya says the urgent environmental reforms the ALP promised have been put on hold!

17.04.2024 50

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Send missiles to Ukraine or stand accused of appeasing Russia? Olaf Scholz must choose

A Social Democratic German chancellor lagging in the opinion polls vows adamantly not to join a war. Support for his SPD party rallies and he narrowly...

03.04.2024 30

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Could Poland’s promotion to Europe’s top table be a turning point for Ukraine?

Poland’s longstanding struggle for a bigger say in European leadership may finally be gaining ground with the revival of the long dormant Weimar...

20.03.2024 6

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Macron has fired his bazooka again – and Russia isn’t the only target

Emmanuel Macron sure knows how to make a headline. But did the French president, who once called Nato brain dead, really mean it when he said this...

29.02.2024 30

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Farmers are in revolt and Europe’s climate policies are crumbling. Welcome to the age of ‘greenlash’

Ursula von der Leyen surrendered to angry farmers last week faster than you could shake a pitchfork or dump a tractor-load of manure outside the...

16.02.2024 60

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

From Germany to Israel, it’s ‘the will of the people’ v the rule of law. Which will win?

The will of the people expressed in free elections and the rule of law upheld by independent courts are two of the pillars of a liberal democracy, or...

30.01.2024 50

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Here’s a tip for Europe’s crisis-beset leaders: ask ‘What would Jacques Delors do?’

With two wars raging on its borders, a world retreating from free trade and globalisation, strong migratory pressure on its southern shores, rising...

17.01.2024 10

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Nativity season in France means peace, goodwill – and an annual row in the town hall

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in France without a good old-fashioned brouhaha about cribs and candles in official buildings. The season of...

22.12.2023 40

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Despite the wrecking tactics of Viktor Orbán, the EU will find a way to get aid to Ukraine

The European Union is never quite as bad or quite as good as it looks. Last week’s summit on expansion was an example of the 27-nation union at its...

19.12.2023 9

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

As antisemitism soars, for many Jews in France nowhere feels safe

French Jews were only partly reassured when more than 100,000 people, including the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, and two former presidents,...

02.12.2023 10

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Pressure to expand the EU has never been greater – and the will to reform it never weaker

European Union leaders are coming around to the geopolitical necessity of embracing Ukraine, Moldova and western Balkan countries as future EU...

23.11.2023 10

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Europe can’t rise to the Israel-Hamas crisis until it overcomes its own rifts

I f the European Union wants to consign itself to irrelevance as a global geopolitical player, this week’s shambolic response to Hamas’s gruesome...

13.10.2023 5

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

Europe’s ‘mini-Trumps’ survived his fall. Now they’re hoping for his comeback

When Donald Trump lost the White House in 2020, Europe’s strongmen, populists and climate change deniers lost a powerful ally and a protector. Yet...

26.09.2023 1

The Guardian

Paul Taylor

The ten challenges impacting the Financial Services industry.

The financial services industry is essential to the day-to-day running of the global economy However it is now facing a number of challenges which it...

18.09.2023 2

International Business Times

Paul Taylor

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