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The global financial crisis is forcing Europe to become an ever closer union. Governments are still balking at the idea and many EU citizens continue to be rather sceptical. Yet the situation calls for a new Approach to how we think about and do things. We believe that we...

The European sovereign debt crisis is slowly turning into a euro crisis. Germany has a special responsibility for the resolution of this issue. As an exporting nation it is heavily dependent on stable economic conditions in Europe, and for this reason the long-term...

The world is changing at breathtaking speed. Global challenges, from climate change to cyber crime, are growing increasingly complex. Emerging economic powers in Asia and Latin America are assuming greater roles in geopolitical matters. The shift of economic power to the...

The requirements for sustainable action strategies are undergoing fundamental Change as a result of the rapidly increasing complexity of the global economy. Many of the conceptual underpinnings of economic policy-making must be radically rethought: from the paradigm of...

A new member state is usually confronted with an anxious question when it takes over the EU Presidency for the first time. “Are they up to the job?” At the end of the Polish Presidency one can heave a sigh of relief and say that they are certainly up to the job. And, more to...

A year after the start of the Tunisian rebellion, Europe’s southern neighbourhood is in turmoil and in a state of upheaval. It is a paradoxical fact that the revolt by secular groups will bring Islamist parties to power for the first time. The transition from dictatorship to...

The outbreak of the Greek crisis has prompted the European Union to set about designing a comprehensive kind of economic governance architecture in which greater coordination of economic and fiscal policy will underpin and support the common monetary policy of the eurozone.

Assuming responsibility and demonstrating commitment were of utmost importance to Reinhard Mohn. He took responsibility for Bertelsmann, the family company, by successfully rebuilding it after the Second World War. One of the globe’s largest media groups, it now employs more...