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Europe Needs a Global Rescue - Gordon Brown, Christian Science Monitor
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How Europe Could Sink Obama's Chances - William Galston, New Republic
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Europe: The World's Worst Dentist - Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
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Time to Brace for Inevitable 'Grexit' - Mohamed El-Erian, Foreign Policy
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Isolated Merkel Losing Her Popularity - Philipp Wittrock, Der Spiegel
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A Fragile Europe Must Change Fast - Martin Wolf, Financial Times
If dismantling the euro is out of the question, true federal finance is unavailable and mutual solidarity will remain limited, what is left? The answer is faster adjustment, to b...
Greek Exit Could Make Euro Area Stronger - Jacob Kirkegaard, Bloomberg
A Greek exit from the euro area would inflict heavy damage in Greece and throughout Europe. It could also be one of the best things that ever happened to the currency union....
The Global War of Lenders and Borrowers - Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard
One of the most surprising aspects of the financial crises being played out around the world is the failure of policymakers to concede perhaps the most important underlying fact: T...
What Austerity? Europe Still Spending - Neil Reynolds, Globe and Mail
In these two years, Euro27 countries increased spending on public order from 1.8 per cent of GDP to 1.9 per cent. On economic affairs (translation: corporate subsidies) from 3.9 pe...
Will Germany Swallow Inflation to Save EU? - Patrick Smith, Fiscal Times
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Why Greeks Will Turn to Leftist Tsipras - Julia Amalia Heyer, Der Spiegel
Alexis Tsipras, the man who will very likely emerge again as the winner of the upcoming Greek parliamentary election, is campaigning throughout the country primarily under one slo...
Time to Plan Velvet Divorce for Euro - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
A 'velvet divorce' for the euro zone would at least offer a believable exit from the current maze....
Europe's Latin Bloc Is in Revolt - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph
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Euro Political Revolt Teaches Asia a Lesson - Paul Donovan, Jakarta Post
Elections should not be viewed as votes on a single issue. Greece has not voted to reject the Euro. France has not voted to change its relationship with the rest of the eurozone....
Will Great Britain Survive the Euro Crisis? - Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
Like much of Europe, the U.K. economy now finds itself in a double-dip recession. Last week the Bank of England once again revised its growth forecast downward. Although (mercif...
France Is in Worse Shape Than It Seems - Globe and Mail
Less than 12 hours after taking office, President François Hollande, France's first Socialist leader in 17 years, headed to Berlin and his first meeting with conservative Ge...
Europe Accelerates Toward a Brick Wall - Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph
Come with me through the streets of Athens, not far from Syntagma Square, and your mind will reel with the horrified realisation that history is not a one-way ratchet, that human p...
Europe Is Strangling Democracy - John O'Brennan, Irish Times
Where governments are punished with fines for breaking rules on deficit and debt levels, the risk of provoking a national backlash against the EU is strong. Far-right parties that ...
China's Lesson: Spending Binges of Little Use - Gordon Chang, Forbes
On Friday, Paul Krugman once again made the case to the Obama administration for more stimulus, calling for $300 billion a year in additional spending “until the economy is b...
Ratcheting Up the Euro Crisis - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
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Europe Awakes from Its Utopian Dream - Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph
A defiant Angela Merkel is doing no more than defending the interests of her own electorate....
Don't Blame the Germans - Learn from Them - Andrew Rawnsley, Observer
Other leaders are being hypocritical when they shove all the responsibility for the euro crisis on to Angela Merkel....
Watching Europe Choose Catastrophe - David Warren, Ottawa Citizen
Bankers may work as long as they wish on financial devices in the face of chaos, but they have no control over political developments. All their efforts must assume politicians a...
Fascism Seeps into Greek Politics - Sabby Mionis, Haaretz
Political upheaval and instability in the country are likely to sweep a number of prominent neo-Nazis and anti-Semites into government....
The European Parliament to the Rescue? - Nik Darlington, The European
The European Parliament is vast, its shiny superstructure reflecting the functional surroundings of Brussels back on itself. Yet when the citizens of Europe glance proverbially in ...
Austerity Under Fire - Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard
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Turning the Eurozone into Jamaica - Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian
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Euro Crisis Made Worse By Emotions - Daily Telegraph
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Apocalypse Fairly Soon in Europe - Paul Krugman, New York Times
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Time for Greece to Say 'Danke' to Germany - Fareed Zakaria, Time
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Are Germans Destined to Save the Euro? - Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph
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Get Ready for the Greek Run - The Economist
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Germany, the Crisis and the G-8 - New York Times
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Spain Caught Between the Rock and the Euro Crisis - Daily Telegraph
The Spanish snub to the Queen smacks of a government that is anxious to distract public attention from its domestic woes....
China Sets Sights on Central Europe - Caille Millner, Der Spiegel
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The Feckless, Lazy Greek Is a Myth - Alex Andreou, Voices
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Britain Should Leave Euro to Its Fate - Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph
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Europe's New Normal - R. Daniel Kelemen, Foreign Affairs
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Greeks Face a Stark Choice: In or Out? - Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
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Greece Must Exit the Eurozone - Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate
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It's Getting Lonely for Merkel Within Her Party - Roland Nelles, Spiegel
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Will Europe Decide the U.S. Election? - Andy Sullivan & Peter Apps, Reuters
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