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Europe Needs a Global Rescue - Gordon Brown, Christian Science Monitor

The G8 summit at Camp David failed to find a plan for economic growth in Europe and to deal with a euro crisis that goes beyond debt. It may seem strange to propose that the worl...

Germany Must Fill Global Leadership Vacuum - Ulrich Speck, IP Journal

Germany has had enormous luck over the last few decades: the conditions for its success were essentially guaranteed by others. Relying on this lucky streak to continue would be r...

Europe: The World's Worst Dentist - Walter Russell Mead, American Interest

European shortsightedness and European selfishness were the prime movers in the great catastrophes of the twentieth century. (The US, too, had its part to play in these disasters...

Isolated Merkel Losing Her Popularity - Philipp Wittrock, Der Spiegel

Usually, Angela Merkel enjoys her presence on the international stage. It has always provided her with an opportunity to shine, and it is where she developed a reputation as "Miss...

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...

Will Germany Swallow Inflation to Save EU? - Patrick Smith, Fiscal Times

This weekend’s G-8 summit at Camp David, the U.S. president’s retreat, marks a big step for Europe in several different ways. After a couple of weeks of waffling, German Chanc...

Europe's Latin Bloc Is in Revolt - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph

The eurozone's 'Latin Bloc' is in full revolt. The trio of French, Italian, and Spanish leaders - backed by world powers - are to push for a radical shift in Europe's economic s...

Ratcheting Up the Euro Crisis - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest

'Crisis in the eurozone' stories are getting boring and this is one two year old soap opera the world would just as soon see disappear. Nevertheless it grinds on; yesterday the G...

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....

Time for Greece to Say 'Danke' to Germany - Fareed Zakaria, Time

Everyone is worried that Greece will default on its national debt. That's really not news. By one estimate, since it gained its independence from the Ottomans in 1832, Greece has b...

Apocalypse Fairly Soon in Europe - Paul Krugman, New York Times

For the past two-and-a-half years, European leaders have responded to crisis with half-measures that buy time, yet they have made no use of that time. Now time has run out....

Are Germans Destined to Save the Euro? - Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph

To make it work, the euro will have to become a very different kind of monetary union. Whatever the historic mission, it's not clear that Germans are yet ready - political...

Germany, the Crisis and the G-8 - New York Times

When the leaders of the Group of 8 gather at Camp David on Friday, President Obama and the others must press Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany to commit to a euro-zone growth p...

It's Getting Lonely for Merkel Within Her Party - Roland Nelles, Spiegel

Chancellor Angela Merkel has shown her tough side by firing Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen after he lost a key state election for her conservative party. The demise of the...

Weakened Merkel Stands Firm on Austerity - David Crossland, Der Spiegel

When the going gets tough, Chancellor Angela Merkel is prone to making a quick U-turn. Last year's departure from nuclear energy weeks after the Fukushima accident is a prime exam...

Europe Needs Germany to Lighten Up - Washington Post

A more import-friendly stance will be resisted in Germany, by the country's powerful export industries and by inflation-wary consumers. It is hardly a sufficient condition for Eu...

Germany's Reward for Good Behavior - Hamish McRae, The Independent

Virtue has been duly rewarded. That, at least, would seem to be the immediate conclusion to be drawn from the divergent paths taken by the German economy and that of much of the...

How Hollande Should Handle Merkel - Charles Grant, CER

The election of François Hollande as French president has excited some of those who blame Germany's emphasis on fiscal austerity for many of the eurozone's ills. Holl...

Germany: Watching on the Rhine - The Guardian

Elections in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia always carry special political resonance for Germany....

How Angela Merkel Made Her Peace with Power - Harold James, TNR

Imperialistic conspiracy theorizing aside, there is a way to explain what is motivating Germany's use of power. German attitudes of today are the product of a peculiar postwar su...

Who's Your Daddy? Germany, Apparently - Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

"One way of putting the referendum that I like is that Brussels and Germany are the mother and father of the EU and the rest of the countries are kids. And some kids spend the mone...

The European Farce - Niall Ferguson, Newsweek

With the sap rising and the governments falling, all the European powers are merrily acting in national character....

Austerity Blow for Merkel in German State Vote - Stephen Brown, Reuters

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday in an election in Germany's most populous state, a result which could embolden the left opposition ...

East Germany: Most Godless Place on Earth - Kamann & Facius, Die Welt

Bad news for all those who’d hoped Christianity might make a comeback now that the Cold War-era German Democratic Republic (DDR) is becoming an ever more distant memory. Athe...

Another 'Pirate' Raid Is Trouble for Merkel - William Lee Adams, Time

Germany‘s Pirate Party, which campaigns on a platform of Internet freedom and political transparency, has entered the state parliament in North Rhine-Westhphalia (NRW)&mda...

Germany, Embrace Consumerism! - Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail

Europe is now in a war, possibly unwinnable, against that debt, much as the United States has spent four years battling crisis levels of private-sector debt rooted in its trade imb...

Europe's Brinksmanship with Greece - A. Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph

Greeks have yet to conclude that the euro itself is the cause of their catastrophe – though they are getting there. By the euro, I mean the whole structure of monetary union, m...

Euro Failing Because It's a Stupid Idea - Tim Worstall, Daily Telegraph

The euro is doomed to fall apart: no, not because I'm some nasty man in UKIP but because the basic idea was such a terrible one. Our chart above (from JP Morgan Asset Managemen...

Let Germans Read Mein Kampf - Stephan Kramer, BBC News

There is no law against publishing Mein Kampf in Germany, but the copyright holders have until now refused permission. Now they are planning to publish a new edition of Hitler's bo...

Germany's Choice: Inflation or Defaults - Centre for European Reform

The battle lines are hardening. More and more eurozone governments are calling for the ECB to loosen monetary policy, for example by directly purchasing government debt in a...

Germany Can't Save the Euro - Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph

Despite gestures from Berlin, the currency cannot survive if and when Greece leaves it....

What Hollande Must Tell Germany - Martin Wolf, Financial Times

What might Mr. Hollande do? First, he is going to have to forget almost all of his domestic promises, not only because they are not going to help France, but also because German ...

Greek Elections Force Germany to Weigh Austerity Endgame - Bloomberg

The May 6 vote showed clearly that Greeks aren't willing to accept further cuts. Almost 70 percent of voters backed political parties -- from anti-Europeans to neo-fascists -- that...

Europe Reaches for Simpler and Uglier Solutions - The Guardian

Democracy matters. When Brussels or Berlin loses sight of that simple fact, voters reach for simpler and uglier solutions....

Will No One Defend Europe in the U.S. Election? - Alec MacGillis, TNR

We are left with Republicans attacking Europe, with Democrats decrying German austerity - and with nobody, really, speaking up for the underlying social-democratic model that has...

Greek Crisis Will Expose Hollande - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

Faced with a choice between supporting Greece and supporting Germany, the French are almost certain to go with supporting the Germans....

No Easy Alternative to Austerity in Europe - Daily Telegraph

Resolving the eurozone crisis is dependent on the continuing willingness of Germany to bail out struggling economies. That in turn depends on the austerity measures that are ...

France, Greece and the End of the Euro - Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph

In France, and in Greece, the anti-austerity backlash has achieved a double victory this weekend, bringing closer the point at which the euro breaks asunder. Continued German sup...

Tough Road Ahead for Angela Merkel - Roland Nelles, Der Spiegel

The biggest threat to Angela Merkel comes not from France, but from Germany....

End of the Franco-German Partnership? - Max Fisher, The Atlantic

This is not to say that France and Germany are moving, or will move, anywhere near their historic depth of enmity. The world has changed too much in the last 70 years; the end of c...

Don't Strangle Europe with Austerity - Gerhard Schroder, CS Monitor

The emergence of a united Europe is a process that has been going on for decades, characterized by progress but also by setbacks. There have been crises again and again in the hist...

Pragmatic Merkel Will Work with Hollande - Philip Oltermann, Guardian

Angela Merkel isn't due to meet François Hollande for the first time until next week, but she must think she already knows him fairly well. Otherwise her senior diplomats wouldn...

German Foreign Ministry Fights to Stay Relevant - Ralf Neukirch, Spiegel

Germany's diplomats are rapidly losing influence amid the debt crisis as Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle's popularity dwindles and the Chancellery takes over European policy....

Hollande Must Win Over Germany, Too - Margareta Pagano, Independent

Hollande's first visit as president should be to Berlin to persuade Merkel that austerity alone is not enough....

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