Thatcher Does Not Sow. Margaret Thatcher is dead, and hagiography on the former British Prime Minister—brilliantly interrupted by Ken...

Uranium. Campaign checks. Oil. What’s really going on in Mali. France is at war. At the time of writing, 4,000 French soldiers are...

In his recent column on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute between China and Japan, Carter Johnson raises several interesting points. I...

Last week I missed an important reason why Spain is in a state of absolute disarray. This of course is the growing strength of...

There are cultural moments when I switch into impartial observer, not the usual crazy-eyed denizen, of the blogosphere left. Say,...

In reading the New York Times yesterday, it struck me that following the news about Syria is becoming almost unbearably frustrating. More...

There is a famous Spanish saying, éramos muchos y parió la abuela –we were too many, and then grandma had a baby. In military jargon this...

Fears of ‘Grexit’ has yet to wane, but the press is talking about another country’s possible retreat from the EU—Britain. The Economist...

New euro Bills are set to enter circulation in May 2013. Instead of the now familiar imaginary architecture, these bills will feature “a...

I was hoping to stop writing on austerity and switch to nationalism and the extreme right in Europe. However, France’s recognition of the...

If Tuesday’s elections represented the triumph of liberalism in the US, no similar trend is to be found in Europe. Far from capitalizing...

In my last eurocrisis rant I argued three changes were necessary for the EU to begin crawling its way out of the hole it has dug itself...

Yesterday, the French government signed a deal to provide Peugeot-Citroën, Europe’s second largest automaker, with €7 billion (or $9...

Europe has not experienced a major war in the last six decades. Today a European civil war, with the ensuing international spillover, is...

Last week, Spain introduced an additional €40bn austerity policy in face continuing recession, unemployment, and violent separatist cries...

My tour of European austerity’s next stop is Germany. However, I have criticized austerity without putting it into context. I have simply...

I’m beginning to think all posts on Europe should fall into the category interesting times, partly in honor of Eric Hobsbawm. Our last...

I meant to begin with a post on European Structural Funds. Structural Funds and regulation are the stereotypically dull issues European...

Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, classmate of Sr. Romney, has outdone himself. In what is now a legendarily cavalier portrait of recklessly...

“The first thing the government does in an election year,” former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou admitted in 2009, “is to...