After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - b….

If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member ….

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy..

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold..