John Peet is Political Editor of The Economist, covering notably Britain and the European Union. He was Europe Editor from 2003 to 2015. He has contributed to books includingThe Frontiers of Europe and The Foreign Policy of the European Union (Brookings) and, with a colleague, Anton La Guardia, published Unhappy Union: how the euro crisis – and Europe – can be fixed in May 2014.
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