On January 13, Belgium legalized euthanasia for children, regardless of age. The legislation is aimed at relieving terminally ill minors...

Though diplomatic relations with Russia are cooling globally, one region stands out: the Arctic. The members of the Arctic Council —...

Although they forced the government into a partial shutdown, Tea Partiers still failed to strip the Affordable Care Act of funding – not...

In a well-known stream of consciousness on the series premiere of The Newsroom, fictitious news anchor Will McAvoy expounds on everything...

“Gentlemen do not read others’ mail.” –Henry L. Stimson. “One might expect Europeans to protest loudly — if only to appease their...

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

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...

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

The Economist recently posted an interesting article on fiscal transfers between the sixteen German states, with the subtitle “Germans...

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...

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

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...

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

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