How long will Germans be made guilty in a Platonian cave haunted by shadows of the past? In the last couple of weeks all over Europe a sentiment of Germanophopia appeared and this even amongst political friends. Comments like “If the Euro fails, the EU will disintegrate. And you, our German friends, will miss the [...]

Yesterday the President of the European Council announced the postponement of the long overdue Eurozone summit which was due to take place next week. I am wondering if the Belgian Council President is now using Belgian practices of non-decision making and postponing. We all know that Belgium is now more than 16 months – since [...]

Newspapers all over Europe, political observers and politicians are gloomy of late.  For example Le Monde’s headline tells us that Greece has another 10 days to avoid the worst. The Financial Times published in a post by Gideon Rachman that a political union cannot fix the Euro! Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung argues that the German taxpayer [...]

The Financial Times of March 3rd 2011 published an article co-signed by Jacques Delors, Romano Prodi and Guy Verhoefstadt. The main purpose, as I see it, is that the authors are urging a call to action for the EU Commission to retake responsibility for its duties. It is fully agreeable that there is an urgent [...]