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What if Facebook hijacked the European elections?

Facebook has the motive and the means to influence the outcome of next year’s European elections. What are we going to do about that?

EPA

Macron’s European Dream

He’s already up-ended France’s political Establishment. Now Macron’s taking aim at the EU.

By Mark Leonard

Reuters

‘Throw Germany out of the euro!’

If Berlin doesn’t change its course, other countries might start seriously suggesting Gerxit

By Hartmut Elsenhans

EPA

Hot data

It’s time to take back control of the information that surveillance corporations hold on us

By Jennifer Cobbe

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State of the nations

Without intending to do so, the European Union has fuelled separatism and made independence a more attractive prospect

By Matthias Bieri

EPA

Good neighbours

The Eastern Partnership with the EU’s neighbours is about much more than accession to the bloc

By Knut Fleckenstein and Julia Wanninger

EPA

Europe’s values won’t defend themselves

The EU needs to pour more money into defending human rights, democracy and the rule of law

By Jan Jakub Chromiec and Adam Traczyk

EPA

Sex, the Church and the EU presidency

A convention on preventing domestic violence is triggering a backlash in Bulgaria

By Helene Kortländer

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Urgent delivery

The EU must make good on its social promises - and quickly

By Luca Visentini

EPA

Deal or no deal?

Why the UK parliament must reject a fudged Brexit agreement

By Richard Corbett