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Hillary Clinton will travel to Europe for official meetings
January 28, 2012Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will make an official visit to Bulgaria and Germany, announced on Friday Victoria Nuland, the secretary’s spokesperson. Hillary Clinton will participate in the 48th Munich Security Conference. “This...
Germany and the USA want a better conflict management in Moldova
January 05, 2012By Valeriu Gonta / Chisinau / Moldova.org / -- The German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed its concern on the incident which took place at the checkpoint in Transnistria, when a Moldovan citizen was deadly shot by a Russian peacekeeper...
Ukraine Court Sentences Tymoshenko To Seven Years In Jail(VIDEO)
October 12, 2011By RFE/RL / KYIV -- Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been jailed for seven years and penalized tens of millions of dollars over abuse-of-office charges in a verdict the European Union says could have "profound implications"...
Jaroslaw Suplacz: Poland on its way to Greece
August 09, 2011A stimulated GDP The Polish GDP is strongly influenced by a stream of financial transfers from the European Union, in 2010 the net income from the EU budget was about 8 billion euro. Were it not for the transfers from the Union, the change of the Polish...
Global economic downturn: A crisis of political economy
August 09, 2011By George Friedman* Classical political economists like Adam Smith or David Ricardo never used the term “economy” by itself. They always used the term “political economy.” For classical economists, it was impossible to understand...
The Price of Regional Hegemony
June 28, 2011The alternative to the regionalization of Europe is clear German leadership that underwrites — economically and politically — greater European integration. If Berlin can overcome the anti-euro populism that is feeding on bailout fatigue in...
June 28, 2011We therefore see Europe evolving into a set of regionalized groupings. These organizations may have different ideas about security and economic matters, one country may even belong to more than one grouping, but for the most part membership will largely...
June 28, 2011The eurozone crisis — which is engulfing EU member states using the euro but is symbolically important for the entire European Union — is therefore a crisis of trust. Do the current political and security arrangements in Europe — the...
June 28, 2011The European Union is a confederation of states that outsources day-to-day management of many policy spheres to a bureaucratic arm (the European Commission) and monetary policy to the European Central Bank. The important policy issues, such as defense...
June 28, 2011Europe continues to be engulfed by economic crisis. The global focus returns to Athens on June 28 as Greek parliamentarians debate austerity measures imposed on them by eurozone partners. If the Greeks vote down these measures, Athens will not receive...