UK trails Poland and Bulgaria on adults educated to A-level standard Lecturers’ union says European data shows Britain risks languishing in ‘mid-table obscurity’ due to rising cost of learning We should therefore reduce the cost of learning by paying lecturers less and having fewer of them. There, job done. Not quite what I’d expect the

Merkel tries to silence talk of Greece leaving the eurozone; Barroso: Eurobonds will not bring an immediate solution to the eurozone crisis

FT Deutschland: Merkel pushing for a Greek default; Merkel and Sarkozy pledge to present ???comprehensive solution??? to euro crisis by end of October

Moody???s warns that France???s Triple-A rating could be put on negative outlook; Merkel???s Spokesperson: Dreams of a magic solution will not be fulfilled this week

The Al-Qaeda preacher Abu Qatada is a Jordanian national who is in the UK illegally (having come here in 1993 on a forged United Arab Emirates passport). The headache he has caused successive UK governments looks like finally reaching a peak. But there is a simple solution to the problem he poses. Last month, not only for the first time in the decade-long Qatada process, but for the first time eve...

Europe faces a difficult challenge of reducing its dependence on credit rating agencies, while there may be no immediate solution, there are some interesting avenues for reform, says Marie-France Baud. More »

Raoul Ruparel: The UK and the eurozone cannot afford another non-solution from this weekend???s summit

French socialist MEP Pervenche Berès explained why austerity was "no solution for the the eurozone" as her party suggests ripping up a European treaty.

From Think Defense , a discussion of UK lessons from Libya and a detailed run down of some possible solutions to fill the gaps: two things the UK effort lacked was organic shipboard unmanned ISR and precision land attack. We've discussed the US shortages of those assets here and several times previously. As acquisition choices are made on platforms such as the F-35C versus say the Sea Avenger...

Reading Cameron's speech to the suits in Davos, one thing stands out: he's in no mood to stop ‘lecturing’ the eurozone, as Nicolas Sarkozy would put it. The whole thing is saturated with firm advice for our European brethren, from generalities such as ‘Tinkering here and there and hoping we’ll drift to a solution simply won’t cut it any more,’ to speci...