‘Poor old Germany,’ said Kissinger. ‘Too big for Europe, too small for the world.’ That maxim is still proving true today, writes Wolfgang Ischinger

Gerard Howlin on a book that looks at the synergy of history, politics and the ideas that has brought the European Union to life and sustained it through succeeding crises.

YOUR Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill, makes a number of questionable claims in her criticisms of Declan Ganley and Libertas (December 15).