Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz, Belgium's prime minister Bart De Wever, Portugal's prime minister Luís Montenegro, ...

Perhaps, then, we should hold off on the idea that, as one un-prescient official said during the 1990s Balkan crises: “This ...

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Janan Ganesh (“Europe must trim welfare to fund warfare”, Opinion, March 6) suggests that increased defence spending must come at the expense of the welfare state. It is our belief that this is ...

“Ukraine can only function as a buffer zone if there is a consensus among global actors on what is possible and what is not ...

The enemies of social security are not letting a good crisis go to waste. In his FT column this week, George Osborne’s biographer Janan Ganesh argued that “Europe must trim its welfare state to build ...

Elon Musk’s hyperactive efficiency drive failed to prevent US federal spending rising to a record $603bn last month, new ...

Of course it may be too late for a European escape from decadence: The goal of transitioning from a “welfare state” to a “warfare state,” as the Financial Times columnist Janan Ganesh put ...

The so-called Mar-a-Lago accord, which aims to replicate the Plaza Accord, in which the Reagan administration worked with several other countries to weaken the dollar, is far less likely to happen ...

And Doge’s “villain” fantasy misunderstands why most people enter public service, argues Simon Kuper. Janan Ganesh thinks that the prospect of a recession and unpopularity won’t make Trump change ...