Is the crucial change in the UK's position in the EU, that demands a referendum, really the need to extend UK doctors' working hours? And what of the EU – has it got a better story to tell?
Will Greece see a process of painful rebuilding, be mired in stagnation and despair - or even face a social explosion?
The new 'fiscal compact' treaty agreed at Monday's summit aims to take vital economic policy choices out of the reach of democratic decision-making. Beyond that, there is no new thinking, nothing to stimulate growth, nothing to give some hope to the 23 million unemployed – and those who will join
If the heart of the crisis lies in the politics – including in the politics of the economic policy choices being made – then solutions may lie, not in yet more EU institutional changes and the creation of an austerity union, but in the practice and the dynamism of democratic European politics. But
Reactions are still rolling in, just over a week after Cameron's veto. Was it the tantrum of an 'obstinate kid'? Whatever reasons he had, he has relegated the UK to the sidelines of Europe.
Perhaps now, as the eurozone and the entire EU struggles to survive, there will have to be a serious debate in the UK about the EU.
There will be huge sighs of relief if the potential political and economic catastrophe of a break-up of the euro is avoided. But a return to 'normal' politics it will not be.
The UK has a choice over whether to be a small player on the margins of Europe. But to become so without any serious national debate is surely a major error.
Turkey's political and democratic troubles are deepening. The country's domestic problems are grave enough, but an additional complicating factor is that few of its putative friends
The bus from Heathrow joins the M40 heading towards Oxford in the morning traffic. Gazing out the window, bleary-eyed from the overnight flight from Delhi, the traffic looks strange: the
The big church near the beach in Velankanni, on the Tamil Nadu coast of southeast India, was first built by 17th century Portuguese sailors as a gesture of gratitude to
