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Angela Merkel needs all the help she can get | Timothy Garton AshRead this article...
Few had anticipated the leadership dilemmas of a European Germany in a German EuropeIn 1953 the novelist Thomas Mann appealed to an audience of students in Hamburg to strive for "not a German Europe but a European Germany". This...
Just like Scotland, Britain needs its referendum too | Timothy Garton AshRead this article...
David Cameron wants devo max for Britain in Europe. His fear of direct democracy will land us with the worst of both worldsDavid Cameron may yet go down to history as the man who pushed Scotland away from England and England away...
Fear may well save the euro. Now for the politics of hope | Timothy Garton AshRead this article...
We must recognise that stability of the eurozone is no substitute for the larger project it was designed to usher inAngela Merkel came to Davos on Wednesday and, in a speech as solidly built as a Mercedes, once again assured the...
In France, genocide has become a political brickbat | Timothy Garton AshRead this article...
Next week's bill on denial of Ottoman atrocities against Armenians is an attack on free speech, one of many around the worldNext Monday the French Senate is to vote on a bill that will criminalise denial of the Armenian genocide...
Cameron and co are deluded – it's cold on Europe's margins | Timothy Garton AshRead this article...
I fear my nightmare about England's direction may come true. In 10 years we'll beg the French (and Scots) to let us back inIf you see a fork in the road, take it! For 60 years, in its relations with Europe, Britain has been...
Václav Havel: director of a play that changed historyRead this article...
The former president of the Czech Republic was the epitome of a dissident because he persisted in his struggle, patiently, non-violently, with dignity and witHands whirring like twin propellers, Václav Havel moved with his...
David Cameron's 'no' is bad for Britain and for EuropeRead this article...
The EU will never be the same again. Britain has become more Swiss, but most of Europe's gone GermanIt was the day that Europe united. It was the day that Europe split. To save the euro, up to 26 members of the European Union are...
The eurozone crisis features a water-jump over each false horizonRead this article...
To see off the bond markets, the eurozone has to create a credible sovereign – but that may divide the larger EUEurope will not be saved in Brussels this Friday. At best, it will live to face another trauma. After these "10...
Dr Saif Gaddafi's LSE thesis makes a case for the action that crushed himRead this article...
Libya is a case of intervention justified by specific circumstances. Go beyond that, and you have a disaster like IraqIt is a little noticed fact that the London School of Economics doctoral thesis that bears the name "Saif...
We must be free and able to defend private lives against tabloid tyrannyRead this article...
The Leveson inquiry has shown the ravages of an unchecked media. Alas, privacy cannot be trusted solely to self-regulationLike a truth commission, this inquiry exposes the horrors of a bad recent past. We gasp as we hear story...