Articles
Should the Eurozone Become a ‘United States of Europe’?
Europeans back from summer vacation this week may be wishing they’d stayed on the beach. Stock markets in Germany, Italy, and France all dropped about 5% Monday,...
U.N. Criticizes Europe’s Drop Boxes for Unwanted Babies
On the front door to the facilities of SterniPark, a children’s charity in Hamburg, Germany, there’s a steel door to a hatch where unwanted babies can be left...
The Bleak Unemployment Report: Is Europe to Blame?
For the first time in almost a year, the unemployment rate rose to 8.2% in May as the economic recovery appeared to not only slow but almost completely stall...
Islam in Europe: A Changing Faith
There's standing room only in a converted warehouse in the decaying industrial hinterland north of central Paris. It's mid-October, just days after the first...
After Greece and France: Europe’s Revolt Against Austerity
I have a piece in the dead-tree TIME this week that looks at the election of Francois Hollande in France and connects it to the democratic revolt happening over...
The Right to Be Forgotten: Europe Proposes New Online Privacy Laws
After two years of investigation and discussion on the subject, the European Commission has proposed a new set of online privacy rules that would allow users to...
Europe Bans Airport X-Ray Scanners that U.S. Still Uses
Citing safety concerns, the European Union has ordered its airports to remove X-ray scanners, one of two types of machines still used in the U.S.
Fed Keeps Trying to Save Europe’s Banks; Ron Paul Frowns
Last week I noted the spike in ECB drafts on the Fed’s swap lines, which were reopened in May 2010 to help keep dollar liquidity flowing as Europe entered its...
Marc Jacobs’ Spring Collection Reportedly Stolen in Europe
Who ever thought the time would come when we’d be calling Marc Jacobs a fashion victim? No, he’s not a robot-like fashionista who slavishly follows trends...
Big in Europe, Streaming Music Service 'Spotify' to Hit the U.S.
Did you ever think you'd see the day? Spotify is coming to the U.S. I should have quotes around that last sentence, because those are Spotify's exact words per...
'Europe's Got To Be Involved'
Afghanistan remains a good war for Tony Blair, whose approval rating is a robust 64%. He should be thankful: the railways are a mess, his government now admits...
Europe’s Deadly Cold Spell: A Slight Thaw, But Winter Misery Continues
The western edge of Europe looked set on Monday to get some relief from the extreme cold spell that has frozen the continent and left over 500 people dead over...
Europe’s Soccer Clubs: The Continent’s Other Looming Debt Crisis
Euro zone governments aren’t the only entities seriously needing to get their debt levels down these days. Information revealed this past week showed Europe’s...
The Question of German Power Returns to Europe
Since the middle of the 19th Century, the central questions in European politics have been been have been the closely-connected questions of nationalism and the...
