Ever since I was in my early teens, I wanted to be a published author. In fairness to myself, I had no illusions about being the next Hemingway or the next Fitzgerald, that was not the goal. I was reading Frederick Forsyth and Robert Ludlum and later John Grisham and...

I am a European federalist. I know, it's a shocking thing to say, like an American candidate saying "I believe that the world is older than 10,000 years" or "Yes, selling Playboy to teenaged boys is less dangerous than a semi-automatic Armalite rifle". I'm a bit eccentric that way. I...

All across Europe, national pride is back in vogue. Most European countries
now have a party, from Marine Le Pen's National Front to Finland's
True Finns that subscribes to a "Screw everybody else!" platform. Even
Germany, a country which for the last seventy years has reached for...