Alexander Chancellor
Italian Insouciance
The over-generous Italian welfare state means that for all the belt-tightening, most people in the country still enjoy la dolce vita
Flights of Fancy
What we need in grim economic times are kindly jokes with no targets or victims
Clouds of war and strategic delusions
Britain’s strategic outlook requires realism about the kind of conflicts we are prepared and willing to fight
Search engine: why Germany's foreign policy flounders
Europe’s economic colossus is crippled by identity politics and self-obsession. It exports instability
Alliances and dalliances
“The lethal combination of the Trump administration’s “America First” approach and many European members’ complacent, cowardly and stingy approach risks making Nato irrelevant”