Timothy Garton Ash

France: an attack on free speech

NEXT Monday the French Senate is to vote on a bill that will criminalise denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915, along with any other events recognised as genocide in French law. The bill has already passed through Published 20 Jan, 2012 12:00am

Eurozone crisis

EUROPE will not be saved in Brussels on Friday. At best, it will live to face another trauma. After these ‘10 days to save the euro’ there will be 10 weeks, 10 months, 10 years. What one Brussels observer describes as Published 09 Dec, 2011 12:37am

Europe needs a foreign policy

FLY-OVER country. An old people`s home. A continent choosing irrelevance. “An international actor in a state of... Published 16 May, 2009 12:00am

Remaking of America?

IN his inaugural speech that was very good, but not the overhyped Lincolnian great, President Obama spoke both to ... Published 23 Jan, 2009 12:00am

Europe needs a bold, new story

LONDON: If Europe were a person, he’d send her to a psychologist. So says the Polish film director Krzysztof ... Published 23 Mar, 2007 12:00am

French bill curbs free speech

LONDON: What a magnificent blow for truth, justice and humanity the French national assembly has struck. Last week ... Published 20 Oct, 2006 12:00am

Grand opera at the front of the stage

LONDON: If everyone in the world had bought a ticket for the pleasure and entertainment that Italy has given them... Published 15 Apr, 2006 12:00am

Brown must carry a European stick

LONDON: Delivering the Hugo Young lecture in London this week, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of exchequer, praised ... Published 16 Dec, 2005 12:00am

The march of liberty has been halted

LONDON: The erosion of liberty. Four words sum up four years. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, we have seen... Published 19 Nov, 2005 12:00am

Stuck in the clay of messy coalition

BERLIN: The good news is Angie. The bad news is her government. Unfortunately, the bad is likely to subvert the ... Published 15 Oct, 2005 12:00am

Iraq is America’s Boer war

STANFORD: If you want to know what London was like in 1905, come to Washington in 2005. Imperial gravitas and ... Published 26 Aug, 2005 12:00am