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Giles Merritt

Giles Merritt is Editor of Europe's World and heads the Brussels-based think tanks Friends of Europe and Security & Defense Agenda.

Commentaries by Giles Merritt

  • Newsart for Penny Wise, Gas Foolish

    Penny Wise, Gas Foolish

    BRUSSELS – Europe is on the verge of making a historic mistake, one that would compound the growing sense of European decay and collapse. Th…

  • Newsart for Europe’s Non-Deal of the Century

    Europe’s Non-Deal of the Century

    BRUSSELS – As Europe picks over the ruins of the mega-merger that would have created a world-beating new aerospace and defense giant, questi…

  • Newsart for Europe’s Fairness Crisis

    Europe’s Fairness Crisis

    BRUSSELS – Slowly– far too slowly – politicians in Europe are beginning to understand that the deep crisis gripping the European Union is a …

  • Newsart for NATO, the Sequel

    NATO, the Sequel

    BRUSSELS – The Arab Spring entered a new phase with the collapse of the Qaddafi regime, but it is still far too soon to pronounce North Afri…

  • Newsart for Where is Europe’s Foreign Policy?

    Where is Europe’s Foreign Policy?

    BRUSSELS – In the 18 months since the Lisbon Treaty created the European Union’s diplomatic service – the European External Action Service (…

  • Newsart for European Diplomacy’s First Test

    European Diplomacy’s First Test

    BRUSSELS – It took eight years of ill-tempered political wrangling to create the European Union’s new diplomatic service, but its fate – and…

  • Newsart for Europe’s Last Chance

    Europe’s Last Chance

    BRUSSELS – The only clear thing to come out of the recent European Union-China summit was the scale of the EU’s fallen reputation. From bein…

  • Newsart for Debating Defense

    Debating Defense

    BRUSSELS – The Haitian earthquake has made two things horrifically clear: security challenges are not only man-made, and military forces ar…

  • Newsart for Who Needs to Be EU President?

    Who Needs to Be EU President?

    Whoever steps into Europe’s new top job as President of the European Council will set the mold. If it is someone of worldwide renown, the pr…

  • Newsart for Europe’s Paradoxical Parliament

    Europe’s Paradoxical Parliament

    What do members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually do? Most of the 375 million or so people eligible to vote in the European electio…

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Recent comment received by Giles Merritt

  • Penny Wise, Gas Foolish

    Carol Maczinsky: It does not matter if Cyprus owns oil reserves. That is a completely different topic. The haircuts are backed by the whole eurozone including Cyprus. We cannot accept the fiscal gaming that unfold…

  • NATO, the Sequel

    Nathan Coppedge: What seem like natural concepts to me might have no reality in Africa. For example, the concept of modular citizen in my mind has to do with social media and brainstorming. Even if this were seen as a…