The euro area is still negotiating its future framework for sovereign debt crisis management and prevention. This study suggests what such a framework should look like. As a basic rule, it should distinguish between liquidity problems and solvency problems. In cases of liquidity problems,...

The negative results of the referenda on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (ECT) in France and the Netherlands have thrown the European Union into a deep crisis. The options should be carefully and unemotionally weighed up.Should the EU collectively "put itself in detention" in...

The British Conservative party's allied membership of the largest party group in the European Parliament, has long been a troubled relationship. Not only is there a mismatch between British Conservatism and the more Centrist, Christian Democratic traditions that underpin the European People's...