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Brexit has forced a radical rethink about every aspect of British existence - and Germany badly needs the same sort of shake-up

Perry Anderson’s essay ‘Ever Closer Union?’ explores the significance of the different institutions within the European Union. Their common principle, he finds, is that they minimise democracy, with the leaders of the most powerful states directing the affairs of the union from within an impregnable fortress of rules. Anderson starts with the European Court of Justice, established in 1952 as part of the European Coal and Steel Community, which evolved into the European Economic Community and eventually the EU. Anderson notes that the first president of the court was an Italian fascist, ...

Economics Correspondent The Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism, Klaus Regling, has said the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact needs to be reformed.   Mr Regling told an online audience at the Institute for International and European Affairs that the debate over how much debt countries can sustain has changed since the time the Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1992.   He said interest rates are "permanently lower" than 10 or 20 years ago.  The capacity of governments to service debt is higher than the levels envisaged in the Treaty, but how much higher is a matter...

Angela Merkel’s disastrous legacy is Brexit and a broken EU 'Mutti' is a canny and tactical politician but leaves a trail of wreckage behind her after running Europe's biggest economy for 16 years This article is an extract from The Telegraph’s Economic Intelligence newsletter. Sign up here to get exclusive insight from two of the UK’s leading economic commentators – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Jeremy Warner – delivered direct to your inbox every Tuesday. Angela Merkel is more responsible for Brexit than any other political figure in Europe, on either side of the Channel. She bears...

journalist from the "daily telegraph" joins us from kabul with the latest. what's happening today, and could this escalate? >> well, it seems to have already escalated. today's protests seem to be more violent and more furious than yesterday. there are several hundred people on the eastern side of kabul trying to get into the city center. they've burned shops. there are reports that shots have been fired in the air to try to stop them. there are also protests in the eastern city of jie lal bad, where a dr. told us that one person has been shot dead and ten wounded. so it is escalatin...