ATHENS – The centrality of Germany to Europe and, more widely, to world affairs has been amply, and often bloodily, demonstrated over many c…

LONDON – As Europe’s financial crisis goes from acute to chronic, the dispute over who will bear the costs of resolving it is fueling the em…

DUBLIN – Europe’s needs and Europeans’ desires are at odds. At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial colla…

PRINCETON – In recent years, the European Union – or, more accurately, the powerful countries of northern Europe – has been subjecting its w…

BRUSSELS – Europe is on the verge of making a historic mistake, one that would compound the growing sense of European decay and collapse. Th…

SOFIA – The logic behind the European Union’s drive to constitutionalize budget constraints and remove key economic decisions from electoral…

PRINCETON – Last week, in a highly anticipated speech, German President Joachim Gauck cautioned against the blind pursuit of an “ever-closer…

MILAN – In the aftermath of Italy’s recently concluded election, no one knows who can and will govern the country. In fact, the best solutio…

RIGA – For decades, people have bemoaned the waning of Europe’s global political power. To add some precision to the debate, in 2010 we help…

PARIS – France’s military intervention in Mali is proceeding apace, with the recent fall of Timbuktu representing a significant milestone in…

BRUSSELS – British Prime Minister David Cameron's long-awaited speech on Europe, to be delivered in the Netherlands, may well mark a turning…

PARIS – European Union leaders concluded 2012 with a landmark agreement that places all eurozone banks under a single supervisor. But the di…

BERLIN – The European Union has a long track record as a global beacon of peace, prosperity, and success in fields ranging from culture and …

PARIS – For three years, the euro crisis has threatened not only to unravel the eurozone, but to bring down the entire European Union with i…

LONDON –The toughest challenge in politics right now is resolving the tension between the best long-term policy and the best short-term poli…

MILAN – The debate about improving economic governance within the eurozone is shedding new light on the system’s weaknesses. It was already …

BRUSSELS – As Europe picks over the ruins of the mega-merger that would have created a world-beating new aerospace and defense giant, questi…

LONDON – Italy’s political exceptionalism – its chronic inability to marshal coherent governments backed by stable parliamentary majorities …

PARIS – Of Europe’s 23 naval forces, only France’s possesses a fully operational aircraft carrier, the 40,000-ton flagship Charles de Gaulle…

ROME – When history repeats itself, it is rarely gentle. Today, as in the era of colonialism, tens of thousands of ambitious young people fr…

LONDON – Europe faces an immigration predicament. Mainstream politicians, held hostage by xenophobic parties, adopt anti-immigrant rhetoric …

STRASBOURG – In an era when effective global cooperation seems to be in short supply, the failure to approve a major international treaty wo…

ATHENS – Sunday’s election in Greece will decide whether confrontation or negotiation will be used to change the terms of Greece’s refinanci…

ROME – Mario Monti, Italy’s prime minister, is a self-styled German among Italian economists. As the European Union’s top competition offici…

DUBLIN – “The construction of Europe is an art,” former French President Jacques Chirac once said. “It is the art of the possible.” If so, t…