Opinion

Berlin’s cultural policy: Unrealistic, over-ambitious, dilettantish?

Helmut K. Anheier explains how the principle of the hiding hand could offer some answers.

Turkish elections: A breakthrough in the long road to democracy

Dilek Kurban explains why the elections could change the course of politics in Turkey.

After the UK election: Why not a grand coalition?

Mark Hallerberg proposes the unthinkable: a coalition of Tories and Labour.

A game of chicken: Greece and Germany?

The first to swerve in debt talks will lose, writes Anke Hassel. That's why Syriza hammers on about its political mandate.

Nudges polarize!

Christian Traxler and Emanual Towfigh ask why the debate over nudging differs in Anglo-Saxon and continental European countries?

Why Europeans are trying to burn down their central bank

In the euro crisis the ECB has been one of the most effective, yet least accountable EU institutions.

Not SIFIs but PIFIs – a bank bailout lesson from Austria

Mark Hallerberg and Christopher Gandrud explain the logic of politically important financial institutions (PIFIs).

A fairer deal on free movement

Facts, not myths, must guide the debate on migration at the national and EU level, writes László Andor.

Romania’s facebook president

Who is Romania’s new President Klaus Johannis? And what are the big challenges that await him?

It’s up to Germany to end the game of chicken with Greece

Pride and prejudice is driving the rift. Reason must kick in before Grexit devastates Europe.

12 reasons the ECB is right to expand purchases

A survival guide for those lost in the debate about the ECB's Quantitative Easing (QE).

The birth of a new nation? Why it might happen for Scotland

Ahead of the Scottish referendum, Mark Dawson looks at the possibility of leaving the UK.