Barry Eichengreen, Project Syndicate
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
Free Exchange
Nita Ghei, Washington Times
Nigel Farage, Telegraph

A visit to Greece leaves many vivid impressions. There are, of course, the country’s rich history, abundance of archeological sites, azure skies, and crystalline seas. But th...(full article)

Two members of the European Central Bank have fought an unpreedented duel at the country's top court in a landmark case that could make or break the Euro....(full article)

EUROPE has lots of economic problems, of the sort that will tend to make a place poorer over time. But it has one very big problem, of the sort that can condemn an economy to prolo...(full article)

Portugal has done everything to meet the conditions for its $101 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union. It is now in its third year of recessi...(full article)

Greece has been sacrificed on the altar of the failed euro experiment, its business community decimated, its families driven to penury, its suicide rate through the roof (up more t...(full article)
Every unhappy family might be unhappy in its own way, but the same isn't quite true of every unhappy euro country. The common currency's troubled economies all relied on foreign ...
Putting the blame of Europe's economic woes on sinister forces operating behind the scenes has always had its charm and its advocates. Suffice it to recall General de Gaulle's inve...
In a SPIEGEL interview, Chancellor Angela Merkel discusses Germany's power in the euro crisis and explains why the country exports weapons to authoritarian regimes like Saudi Arabi...
Bismarck's Germany pioneered social welfare guarantees of health insurance, disability and old age pensions; it was also ahead of European nations in enacting legislation aimed at ...
For now, there simply aren’t enough responsible people ready to unwind what should never have been knitted together in the first place. But with every increase in the unemplo...
The European Commission’s decision to allow some member-states more time to meet their budget deficit targets is an overdue and welcome policy shift, a move away from a singular ...
Ranking global popularity can be tricky, as world approval can vary radically from region to region and country to country. That being said, global surveys can be a useful tool for...
Western Europe is a major net importer of food averaging 59 million metric tonnes during the years 2001 to 2010. That amount is similar to the net imports of all of Africa - a regi...
One of the reasons that it is been so hard for a lot of analysts, even trained economists, to understand the imbalances that were at the root of the current crisis is that we too e...
At anti-austerity demos in southern Europe, it has become fashionable to rail against Germany and to brandish posters showing Chancellor Merkel with moustaches à la Hitler. ...
Another month, another 95,000 people lost their jobs in the eurozone. The EMU unemployment rate nudged up a point to 12.2pc, but this understates those who have dropped out of work...
The economist Yanis Varoufakis has an apt metaphor for Europe's latest approach to its economic crisis. Imagine, he says, that your neighbours demanded you do a 100m sprint in unde...
Greece’s surfeit of garbage has become one of the most visible — and pungent — symptoms of its debt crisis. A report commissioned by the European Commission last year ranked ...
The oft-cited statistic that half of young Spaniards are unemployed is wrong. In reality, about one-fifth of those under 25 are looking for work. Nevertheless, outreach programs cr...
YOU may have missed it, but the European Union held a summit this week. Taking in a nutritious working lunch, Europe’s prime ministers, presidents and chancellors devoted hal...
François Hollande marked his first year as France's President by declaring that the battle of the euro crisis was over—and the battle of the recession had begun. The culprit? "A...
Antonis Manitakis has the most thankless job in Greece. Tasked with slashing the grotesquely bloated public sector, he is hounded by troika officials, reviled by his countrymen and...
The certainties that sustained notions of European unity and social solidarity are collapsing. The financial structures that formed the foundations of old Europe have warped and ar...
He is broke, scared and bored -- not something you want a mass of young men to be. That is the point at which history turns. Over time, they become men with nothing to lose; they b...
Europe is failing in the fight against youth unemployment. While the German government's efforts remain largely symbolic, Southern European leaders pander to older voters by defend...
Judging from the markets and English-speaking news media this week, Greece’s damaged economy has finally turned the corner. I doubt it....
The German finance minister, under whom the euro was launched, Oskar Lafontaine, earlier this month called for its break-up. He asserted “the current policy is leading to dis...
The struggle over the euro currency is re-introducing fragmentation to the European continent. New divisions won’t emerge from religious or ethnic fault lines but from differ...
The Irish are thought to be a compassionate people who care about human rights, but we are also capable of appalling selfishness towards our own citizens. A report this week from t...
It hardly qualifies as breaking news that Europe is in the middle of a deep and protracted economic contraction. When a story, no matter how shocking, goes on for years, the natura...
Sisa is the latest grim example in a global trend toward mass-produced synthetic drugs, from the skin-eating opiate cocktail krokodil in Siberia to South Africa’s new fascina...
During her eight years as chancellor, Angela Merkel has skillfully lulled Germans to sleep and used feel-good policies to switch their focus from politics to personal comfort. By s...
More than a million people came to Germany last year. If you deduct the ones who left, that's an increase of 369,000. There hasn't been this many since 1995. However there's no com...
DESPITE greatly improved financial conditions over the past nine months following the pledge by Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, to do “whatever it takes&rdqu...
Southern Europeans have grown impatient with Germany's self-imposed role as Europe's iron fist in recent months, but their criticism seems to have left the majority of Germans unfa...
Why is this frozen lump of volcanic rock doing so well? For three reasons. First, Iceland was wise enough to let its banks fail rather than bailing them out. Second, Iceland was no...
Even as the economy has tanked, Spain in recent years has become a destination for women and couples seeking to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization. Egg donors are plent...
The new media strategy of Angela Merkel is reminiscent of a Monty Python episode: outright denial is key. If the German chancellor is asked anything about that “damn little t...
Despite reports to the contrary, internal devaluation can work. Ireland has shown that and so, oddly enough, has Germany. For Europe’s sake, it must be made to work in Greece and...
If you don't know May 9 is Europe Day, then you find yourself in good company with a majority of Europeans. Even in the most buoyant time, this holiday – marking the Schuman Decl...
The Bourbons, as Talleyrand once remarked, learned nothing and forgot nothing. What was true of the rulers of France some two centuries ago seems true of voters in some countries i...
The populist UKIP's achievement in confounding expectations and winning 25 per cent of the vote falls into an anti-establishment pattern seen with the rise of the US Tea Party, the...
Recent events in Cyprus have again silenced the optimists. The latest in Europe’s cycle of serial crises could by some estimates cause the Cypriot economy alone to shrink by ...
As if dysfunctional Italians, resentful Greeks, and reluctant Cypriots weren't enough trouble, German Chancellor Angela Merkel now faces an obstacle much closer to home in her effo...
Could there be a dictatorship inside the European Union? If such a spectre appeared, should Brussels somehow step in to shore up democracy? Or would this constitute an illegitimate...
Some ideas are almost too seductive to examine closely. One such theory concerns the emergence of a new German hegemony in the euro zone crisis. The last turbulent years have catal...
The eurozone crisis has unleashed a string of buzzwords - from rating downgrade to Grexit, referring to Greece's potential exit from the zone. Yet one word is often missing: econom...
A number of overheated media reports this week have had some cheesy fun pointing out the latest Italian calamity: a shortage of skilled pizza makers. Italy’s economic crisis ...
For most Americans, Europe is out of sight and out of mind. We figure that the worst of its debt crisis has passed. Italy has a new government. To mute social unrest, some countrie...
The problem is not that the French president has been inactive. It is that most of his activity has backfired on him....
The Latest Videos from Around the WorldPolish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski discusses the debt crisis affecting Europe and steps needed to be taken.Posted on September 16, 2011...
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a co-author and key proponent of the Senate immigration bill, s...
GEISMAR, La. (AP) — Officials say ambulances and helicopters have taken at least 30 people from a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unpaid internships have long been a path of opportunity for students and recent ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Nearly 93,000 people have been confirmed killed in Syria since an uprising against P...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister issued a "final warning" to protester...
Europeans are more likely to distrust banks than anyone else around the world, according to a new ...
An MP for the ultra-right Golden Dawn party, Panayiotis Iliopoulos, was ejected from a session in ...
Over 120,000 Greek professionals have fled the country since 2010, according to a study from Unive...
The proto-fascist political party Golden Dawn has emerged as an ominous political force in Greek p...
German unemployment stands at an almost two-decade low of 6.8 percent. Germany's government-run jo...