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Given that 76% of Germans are in favour of the Euro according to Eurobarometer, being a German and a strong anti-Euro advocate is not a usual combination. Nonetheless, Professor Bernd …

Although news of the Russian affair with the poisoning of Sergei Skripal continues to dominate Russian and British headlines, it is important to remember that Russia also has another conflict …

On Sunday, Italy will go to the ballots for the eighteenth time since the end of WWII – possibly the most unpredictable election since the advent of the Republic, with …

The timing could not have been worse. On 26 January, police searched the office of the Portuguese finance minister Mario Centeno – only two weeks after he had officially assumed the presidency of …

The Catalan elections on Thursday produced an expected result in an atypical election. The liberal anti-independence party Ciudadanos won the most representatives but the combined vote share of the pro-independence …

During reading week, my friends and I went on a road trip around the Balkans, armed with a tiny rental car and the world’s most powerful passport. At the recommendation …

‘Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty.’ – Carl Andre Last Friday, the Catalan regional parliament, a legislature with 135 seats, voted 70-10 in favour …

Sometimes, political events happen so fast, involve so many actors and are so confusing that it is difficult to depict them in a way that appears fair to everyone. The …