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Strategic thinking for a resilient and competitive Europe

Volte-face of Turkish foreign policy

Turkey’s return to its traditional foreign policy should be encouraged by its Western partners, writes Ambassador Selim Yenel. As Turkey’s effort and cooperation with the United Nations to solve...

The cost to Ukraine of the conflict with Russia

Lost output between 2014 and 2020 amounts to US$280bn, nearly 20% of Ukraine’s pre-conflict GDP, writes Douglas McWilliams. My colleagues at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr)...

Why the Germans can look to the future with confidence

After the election, gloom reigned in all quarters, but Germans are a mature society and ideally placed to master new challenges, writes John Kampfner. In Germany, the glass is...

Biden’s America must reach out to other world powers

The next US Administration should not try to restore American hegemony, writes Professor Margarita Mathiopoulos. As Harvard political scientist Graham Allison rightly pointed out in his latest Foreign Affairs...

How the E3 can help British-EU co-operation overcome Brexit

France, Germany and Britain have an interest in strengthening their collaboration, writes FT’s Martin Sandbu. Germany’s defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer recently hosted what her department trumpeted as the first...

France needs a bold, forward-looking recovery plan

Youth employment and productive investment, notably in digital and the energy transition, must be top priorities, writes Bernard Spitz. The rescue measures adopted last Spring by France and other...

The EU faces a dilemma over Lukashenka

Europe must support democracy in Belarus but without pushing the country under Russia’s firm control, writes Charles Grant. Even by its own standards, the electoral fraud committed by the...

Covid-19 could bring an end to Maastricht criteria

The current pandemic has laid bare the need to inject flexibility into the EU’s financial framework, writes François Le Goff. State interventions in the economy have made a dramatic...

The EU should show confidence in the face of Brexit

Successful or not, the UK has always been a fearless pioneer, writes FAZ London Correspondent Jochen Buchsteiner. It is difficult to deny that since the Referendum, Britain has shrunk...

France and Germany must join efforts to tackle cyber risks

Cyberwarfare has become an essential part of how major powers exert their influence in the world, writes Jean-Louis Gergorin. The three cyber superpowers – the United States, China and...