'The problem is not austerity versus growth. The problem is that our social model — whether in France or Greece or elsewhere in Europe — no longer works'

The current fiscal crisis in Europe has already led to an erosion of democracy. Lessons from history need to be learnt — the political role of technocrats must be curbed

In 1953 Thomas Mann called “not for a German Europe, but a European Germany”. Now we have both—and neither is happy

Greeks have been fiddling the books ever since Agamemnon. Where else do you find such private generosity and public irresponsibility?