Many of those who backed insurgents have genuine grievances

With a modicum of confidence, EU nations can set the terms of the relationship

Brexiters’ false promises have dissolved on contact with the facts of economic life

Surpluses and a pro-EU agenda could tempt the SPD as the Merkel era nears its close

The politics of plenty once led politicians to lift their sights to Europe. No longer

While Warsaw turns back to the past, Berlin wrestles with the consequences of hegemony

To old friends, the UK appears to be in the grip of an inexplicable fever

Berlin wanted a strong ally in Paris but is now lukewarm on Macron’s reforms

Two years was never going to be long enough to repatriate responsibilities

US allies’ policy of working to minimise the president’s impact is running out of road

Mainstream politics must stop defending a status quo that is manifestly unfair

Catalans cannot vote to secede without affecting Spanish citizens elsewhere

The danger is not that Germany will be overrun by the far right, but that it will turn inwards

The big unanswered question is what the chancellor intends to do with her victory

Misreading Germany has been a reliable thread of 44 years of British EU membership

The country cannot avoid discussion of its international role much longer

The organising ideology of Corbynism is not pacifism but anti-Americanism

The mantra that the UK wants a ‘deep and special’ relationship with the EU is empty

As Beijing pushes westwards, the Atlantic century makes way for a new Eurasian age

The campaign against George Soros digs up the demons of anti-Semitism