Matthias Matthijs

The future of Brexit means either the Tory Party splits and Labour comes back to power or the U.K. falls apart and is reduced to England and Wales.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, who promised to be a “bloody difficult woman” during her country’s upcoming divorce negotiations with the European Union, has...

Today, the two-year Brexit clock began its countdown. Now that the British government has formally notified the European Council of its intention to leave the...

Five months after the referendum, the Brexit process seems certain to end badly for all parties involved.

The United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union has triggered the worst political crisis in the EU’s history. If the union is to survive, it needs to give...

May faces an impossible tripartite task: to deliver on Brexit while at the same time keeping her party together and her country united. Realistically, she will have...

Any outcome short of a decisive victory for the “remain” camp on Thursday will leave the United Kingdom deeply divided and badly bruised.

The EU's reforms for Britain are mostly inconsequential, but the negotiations between the United Kingdom and its EU partners were never about substance.

Despite all the grim predictions, the European Union is not on the verge of collapse. Quite the contrary: if European leaders act with resolve and persistence, the...

A British exit from the EU is now more likely than ever, thanks to Prime Minister David Cameron, who has caved in to his party’s right wing. But such a move would...

Two years, three sovereign bailouts, more than a trillion euros in cheap ECB loans, and dozens of summits later, the latest developments in Germany suggest that...

As the eurozone's biggest economy, it was Germany's job to stabilize the system when the first signs of financial trouble appeared. Instead, it did precisely the...

Unlike Margaret Thatcher in 1981, British Prime Minister David Cameron has appeared totally unprepared for the social unrest that his spending cuts have inevitably...