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EUROPEAN UNION

COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2014
Ukraine crisis tests Europe's foreign policy mettle
The international community must balance the need to ensure that Ukraine does not become the site of a proxy battle with the necessity of stopping Russian President Vladimir Putin's destructive ambitions.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 25, 2014
Europe's Mideast mission: neutral mediation
America's gradual withdrawal from the Middle East puts increasing pressure on Europeans to help foster peace in the region. Their starting point in states like Syria and Iraq is not to take sides.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2014
Swiss voters send EU a message on immigration
Conventional debate in Europe has interpreted increased anti-immigrant sentiment as the result of xenophobia, racism and a new sympathy for the authoritarian far right. Analysis does not bear this out in the case of Switzerland and its narrow majority vote against 'massive immigration.'
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 24, 2014
The enigma of European defense
What accounts for European citizens' support for the establishment of a common security and defense policy when most European leaders have demonstrated a clear lack of interest in creating one
COMMENTARY
Dec 30, 2013
Rescue of Europe must involve reform of euro
Eurozone members whose path to regaining competitiveness through price and wage reductions is too long and grueling, and whose societies risk being rent asunder by the imposition of austerity, may have to temporarily exit the monetary union.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 2013
Challenges highlight need for better government
U.S. President Ronald Reagan famously insisted that 'government is not the solution to our problem.' Today we know better: If government is not part of the solution, our problems will only get bigger.
EDITORIALS
Nov 28, 2013
The Ukraine tug of war
Russian President Vladimir Putin has won an important foreign policy victory with the decision by Ukraine to suspend talks on an association agreement with the European Union.
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2013
Why U.K. exit from EU may now be a real possibility
The realization hits a recent visitor to the U.K. that Britain might actually leave the EU. Attitudes are hardening well ahead of a promised referendum on membership.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2013
UKIP rides wave of discontent
Britain as well as Japan must contend with xenophobic anti-establishment parties and politicians who want to take their nations back to imaginary periods of isolation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
May 15, 2013
EU-U.S. trade deal faces raft of challenges
Supporters of a U.S.-European free-trade deal have begun damping expectations about its immediate benefits amid a series of emerging disputes that could complicate the creation of the world's largest trade zone.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2013
In Europe, pieces are in place for a 'lost decade'
Although investors seem to think that Europe's leaders will do just enough to save their monetary union, the EU is likely to look back on a 'lost decade.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2013
Cameron lost in channel fog
In his speech demanding a new deal for Britain in the EU, British Prime Minister David Cameron sought a popular political fix to quiet his rightwing rebels.

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