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Start with our interactive visions map, or dip into Europe Prophecies, a rolling diary of stories from the corners of Europe. And if you want to know what's new with the European Constitution, read what Convention members Frans Timmermans and Jens-Peter Bonde have to say - they're living it.
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How the fears of Ireland's voters could shape the European Union's destiny
Two crises - the financial crash and climate change - reveal two faces of Europe
Alexander Lukashenka has won a total victory. But is that what Belarus's president wanted?
The Caucasus war is Europe's opportunity for coherence vis-a-vis Moscow. Here's how to take it
The Georgia-Russia war provokes European governments into surprising initiatives
The Georgia-Russia crisis is a challenge to Europe to make its own foreign policy tell
Turks should not give up on Europe - it's still an agent of progress. But a silence must end
A stark European Union report on Bulgaria is an anti-populist political wager for hard times
The search for a political solution to the Cyprus problem is at a delicate stage
The formation of a new government offers modest hope of progress in the path to Europe
The old continent was once the model for a new world. No longer. But its elites are in denial
Modern European history shows why representative democracy is better than direct
The Irish "no" to the Lisbon treaty is a political test for the whole European Union
George Schöpflin is wrong - Europe's peoples need a direct vote on how they are governed
Turkey's political fissures test its stability and put its orientation towards Europe in question
Afghanistan's hope of progress and security is withering. It's now or
never for Europe
The Kosovo-Serbia endgame is an alarm-call for Europe's policy in the region
The agreements that govern European-African trade need a late rethink
A key aspect of the EU reform treaty clarified
Europe must become more political or it will lose its citizens to populism and alienation
The election result is decisive, but Turkey remains in the grip of crisis
The new European Union accord achieves compromise at the cost of unresolved division over the union's democratic legitimacy
The European Union's political future depends on myth-clearing and democracy-making
Warsaw's blocking approach weakens the European Union and damages Poland itself
The European Union must now raise its sights and learn to manage globalisation
A fractious European Union needs a settlement all can live with. Here's a proposal
Britain's effort to strangle the European Union's progress is hypocritical
The vendetta of Bucharest’s political cartels against the country’s president exposes the failure of European Union policy. It could even destabilise the EU itself, says Tom Gallagher. Read the rest of this post...
The European Union is marking its half-century in celebration and self-doubt. It is a historic achievement, says George Schöpflin, but the EU now faces two great challenges: renewing its legitimacy, and facing globalisation. Read the rest of this post...
A return to the origins of European integration in the 1940s-50s
reveals a more complex story than the official celebrations allow, says
Krzysztof Bobinski.
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