There is every indication
that the governing parties see a minority government as the solution to the
post-referendum political situation. What this really means is that nothing
will change apart from certain formal elements.  Continue »

The EU’s Viennese mirrorIf an EU bureaucrat travelled to turn-of-the-century Vienna, he would be surprised at how closely the empire it governed resembled today’s Europe. Like the EU, Austria-Hungary was a vast experiment in supranational engineering – a patchwork of kingdoms and nationalities knitted together in search of a common geopolitical destiny. Continue »