The euro had a fundamental flaw from the beginning.
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A massive public investment program financed by the European Investment Bank will help fix the problem at the heart of the euro.
Business as usual for European commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager.
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The EU’s antitrust case against Russian energy giant Gazprom is about competition, but has many political elements to it too.
Hint … it’s more than sartorial advice.
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Syriza came to power promising to renegotiate Greece’s relationship with the EU. The fallout of their attempts to do so is a lesson for a UK that would try to do the same.
There are nationalists, and then there are nationalists.
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The SNP, Plaid Cymru and UKIP are the new faces in the UK election in 2015 but they reflect a wider change.
The UK economy is more sleepy than happy.
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The main parties are spending most of their time arguing over the speed and extent of cuts, when they should be talking about growth.
The Finns Party celebrating their leap forward.
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After four years of a government that put itself at the centre of the EU, Finland has dramatically changed course.
Big launch, small vision.
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The Green Party doesn’t appear to have thought about their EU policy very much.
The EU is not top of the agenda in this little book.
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Above and beyond a defence of membership, the manifesto makes little in the way of pledges about EU policy.
The whole olive-growing region of Puglia has been devastated.
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Thousands of miles of olive groves across southeastern Italy are threatened by the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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Jean-Marie and Marine need to split up in a way that benefits them both.
Popular accounts add to the clouds gathering over Greece’s parliament.
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Persistent misconceptions over the nature of the Greek bail-out play a subtle but key role in sustaining a damaging mythology – and preventing a viable treatment of the crisis.
Miliband appealed to spooked businesses with a warning about the EU.
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Opening his campaign, Miliband warned an EU referendum would be bad for business. But not holding one could have serious consequences too.
One different wave lengths.
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The advocates (and beneficiaries) of austerity are succeeding in cornering the country worst hit by the euro crisis.
Is it really the end of the affair?
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After the 2010 election, the coalition promptly ordered a huge review of the EU. Then it spent years ignoring the findings.
Podemos’s Teresa Rodriguez addresses supporters.
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Will Spain’s general election really be an anti-austerity wave – or something much more messy?
Game for a fight? Varoufakis arrives in Brussels.
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Yanis Varoufakis was supposed to have an academic advantage in tangled talks with the Troika. But politics can mess with the most careful plans.
Map depicting the two major hypotheses of the spread of Indo-European languages (white arrows) and geographic distribution of the archaeological cultures described in the text.
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Europe is famously tesselated, with different cultural and language groups clustering in different regions. But how did they all get there? And how are they related?
Candidates for the local elections will stand in pairs.
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A radical new system is to bring parity to regional councils.
Putin’s pals are pushing his buttons.
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Rivalry between the Russian president’s allies could be making his life hard.
Still not sure.
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There is little appetite in Europe for substantive discussion of the UK’s place in the EU.