Europe's economic troubles have forced it to continue looking to China for financing. But Beijing, which is thought to hold up to 30 percent of its reserves in euros, is driving an increasingly hard bargain.

There are 10 good reasons for Europeans to support enhanced UN status for the Palestinians. There is also an eleventh reason: the 27 EU nations can show that they count on the world stage if they are able to stick together.

Despite what some critics say, much has changed in the eurozone in the three years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Yet until now there has not been a plan - something that we urgently need as the euro crisis reaches potentially disastrous proportions.

Europeans have much to gain from unity during any vote at the United Nations supporting Palestinian statehood. However the best response to a complex situation is to abstain. A response to ECFR's recent memo in favour of a 'yes' vote.

In a response to an article by Jan Techau attacking Common Security and Defence Policy, Nick Witney argues that Europe can and must take on more shared responsibility for its own security in the multipolar 21st century.

Despite the fashionable talk about BRICS and the G2 of Washington and Beijing, we really now live in a G3 world that combines US military power and consumption, Chinese capital and labour, and European rules and technology.

Denmark is about to go to the polls, and Europe has been strangely absent from the election campaign. If the EU is to re-invent itself and survive, it must rediscover a constructive place in the national political conversations of member states.

Albania is politically paralysed by a stand-off between prime minister and opposition. The EU must act decisively to prevent the country becoming a small enclave dominated by illiberal politics and bureaucratic dysfunctionality.

The USA and Europe have something in common: they need China's money. In the coming decade, the three economic centres of the world have to find better ways to interact on financial and economic matters.

In the wake of Gaddafi's fall, American commentators have been keen to urge that any peacekeeping operation in Libya is a primarily European one. Yet there are serious potential problems with this approach – not least that Libya's new leaders have declared their opposition to the idea of any foreign boots on their soil.

The European financial crisis is not just about the immediate debt problem: it's about Europe's longer term viability in a more competitive world. For the sake of future European generations we need to start the hard bargaining process over real and painful reforms straight away.

Jan Techau, director of Carnegie Europe in Brussels, argues that the EU should abandon its Common Security and Defence Policy in favour of the thing that will really keep Europe free and safe: a properly cultivated transatlantic relationship.

On 24th August 1991, Ukraine declared itself independent. Andrew Wilson, who was in Kiev learning Ukrainian at the time, assesses where the country stands two decades on.

The euro is on fire, and the measures proposed by George Soros to put out the blaze are essential. The next step is a 'Federation Lite', which would at last allow the EU to work in a logical way.

The establishment of a proper eurozone treasury as part of a European executive body controlled by European parliamentarians looks politically a long way off. But that is where the current crisis is leading us.