James Neuger

… wasn’t the banner headline on this week’s Pew Research Center survey of European public opinion, but isn’t as far from reality as you might think. True, the Pew numbers, derived from a March poll in eight European Union countries...

Yesterday was the big German parliamentary decision on aid for Cyprus, and the burning question was whether Chancellor Angela Merkel would hold her coalition together or, as in past Bundestag crisis-management moments, rely on opposition votes to pass the package....

Margaret Thatcher spoke about Europe mainly in terms of what she didn’t want: neither a “narrow-minded, inward-looking club” that is “ossified by endless regulation,” nor “an institutional device to be constantly modified according to the dictates of some abstract intellectual...

Bailed-out and bankingly challenged Cyprus is a “unique case,” the entire European policy establishment tells us. One under-reported way in which Cyprus is unique is that chatter about eventually leaving the euro isn’t limited to the fringes. It’s part of...

The revolution begins in Valletta — that’s the European center-left’s rallying cry after a longtime conservative bastion, Malta, fell to the Labour Party over the weekend. Never mind that with growth last year of 1 percent and a jobless rate...

For once, Mario Monti had a sympathetic audience — dozens of European officials he mingled with and presided over during a 10-year European Commission career that, by the looks of it, he will remember more fondly than the 15 months...

Peer Steinbrueck made a German campaign cameo in Brussels today and left everyone wondering how he would manage the crisis differently than the woman he is trying to oust in next fall’s German federal election, Chancellor Angela Merkel. Steinbrueck made...

Meeting budget-deficit targets isn’t France’s strong suit, but it’s looking increasingly likely that President Francois Hollande will be given some breathing space next week, when the European Commission puts out economic forecasts for the euro zone. The previous forecasts, in...

Britishers contemplating an exit from the European Union got some food for thought from Finland today. “The EU without Britain is pretty much the same as fish without chips,” Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen told a group of Brussels reporters....

So much for claims that Europe is in terminal decline, its economic and political model devoid of appeal elsewhere. As the U.S. fiscal cliffhanger showed, European decision-making practices are becoming all the rage in Washington. True, political America took only...