Though the news out of the Middle East last week was dominated by the shocking car bombing in Beirut, the region also witnessed the...

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, I wrote about how the Western media focuses disproportionately on negative news out of the Middle East, drawing attention to...

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...

Remember that YouTube video, the anti-Islam film trailer that sparked riots in countries with large Muslim populations across the world?...

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...

A famous essay by  Sir Isaiah Berlin begins with the following quote: There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus...

September has come and Europe’s politicians are finally in their offices, back from the annual August recess. Back to the rescue. We’re...

I lived in India for all of my life and I still don’t understand the political climate of my country. Sure it’s a democracy–but how is it...