The writing is on the wall: After six decades, France’s Fifth Republic looks set to give way to a sixth.Sooner or later, such an upheaval could become the chief outcome of Emmanuel Macron’s election victory.The arrival of a centrist, pro-Europe technocrat in France’s powerful pre

It is a short tram ride from the massive building that houses the European Union’s Council of Ministers to the Brussels office of the German think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP).

The surprise result of the United Kingdom’s general election, which will return Prime Minister David Cameron and the Conservative Party to power for another five years, suggests that Britain’s voters prefer the devil they know to the devil they don’t. That may

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in Paris, world leaders linked arms but not ideas. The attacks unleashed a welter of opinion about how to prevent further violence — whether by jihadist terrorists or against Muslim communities.

Some say that political theatre, not policies, drives democracies, and that’s certainly true of the drama — with comic overtones — that has been playing out in the European Union.

Italy’s new prime minister, Matteo Renzi, wants to attack high youth unemployment by cutting taxes on labour. There is much to be said for that approach — not only in Italy, but throughout Europe, where direct and indirect taxation on employers and jobs accounts for