JOHN PEET is Europe editor and a former Brussels correspondent of The Economist. He was previously Washington correspondent and business affairs editor.
ANTON LA GUARDIA is Brussels correspondent of The Economist and writes the Charlemagne column. He was previously The Economist’s defence correspondent, after working for two decades as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and Africa. He is the author of Holy Land, Unholy War: Israelis and Palestinians (Penguin, 2006).