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Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the "Europe At Large" column.

For the past quarter century, Taylor has covered the main landmarks in European integration, and the main crises, and knows where the bodies are buried. His column looks at the intersection of EU politics and economics.

Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Taylor graduated from Balliol College, Oxford in 1977 with a BA in Modern History and Modern Languages. He joined Reuters as a graduate trainee that year, serving as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Tehran, Bonn and Brussels before his first assignment as bureau chief in Israel/Palestine from 1986-90. He was Berlin bureau chief in 1990-91, chief correspondent in France from 1991-97, diplomatic editor based in London from 1997-2001 and Brussels bureau chief from 2001-08.

Most recently European Affairs Editor, Taylor led Reuters' award-winning coverage of the eurozone crisis. He wrote the bi-monthly "Inside Europe" column for Reuters and the International New York Times from 2008 until he retired from Reuters after 39 years in July 2016. Taylor was awarded the first The Baron award for lifetime achievement in 2012 as "the journalist who best embodies Reuters' values and standards".