Since 2016, Portugal has enjoyed robust growth (at least relative to its European peers), climbing wages, and a precipitous drop in...

In September 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Maria swept through Puerto Rico, taking with them hundreds of lives across the island. The...

On December 19, 2016 Christine Lagarde, the managing director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was convicted in French...

For Justin Trudeau, head of Canada’s Liberal Party and newly elected Prime Minister, it’s been a good first five months in office. After...

Irish politics are in a state of paralysis — the recent general elections resulted in a hung Dáil (the lower house of the Irish...

A single figure disproportionately determines the tone and direction of political activity from Capitol Hill to Brussels, and that figure...

On January 25th, Greece headed to the polls and gave an astounding victory to Syriza in what might constitute the biggest slap in the...

Gregory Mankiw, chair of Harvard’s Department of Economics, talks to Brown Political Review’s Omar Ben Halim. Mankiw previously chaired...

BPR Media Team explores austerity measures in Portugal via Stop-motion animation #austerity #BrownPoliticalReview #Portugal #strike

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...

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...

“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...