Europe

Ever since the earliest days of the Republic, American intellectuals, artists, and statesmen looked to Europe for models.  read more »

It is a warm Monday morning in Rome, and the city’s ancient ghetto resembles an armed camp. As carabinieri line the streets, a cloud of melancholy hangs in the air: not only had more than 1,400 Jews recently been slaughtered in Israel, but the date — October 16 — marks the anniversary of its residents forced evacuation to the concentration camps. History, it seems, is repeating itself.  read more »

For a long time, Sweden has been a leading innovation economy, known around the world for its technological competences. My first personal association of Sweden, as a child before I came to Europe, was as a country with talented engineers. But Sweden's position as a leading European engineering country is being undermined.  read more »

Preface: Europe is becoming more integrated – not only in terms of its defence policy but also through the spread of knowledge intensive jobs. The trend shows that a shift is underway and that brain business jobs are increasingly found in the Eastern and Southern parts of Europe. The study finds that the nations with the highest growth rates all seem to have relatively low tax rates, while high tax countries are stagnating.  read more »

A flurry of Ukrainian flags appeared all over San Francisco a year ago when Russia’s incremental acquisition of Ukrainian territory ramped up in earnest and turned to a hot war.  read more »

The pomp and ceremony of this weekend’s coronation of King Charles III could not hide the fact that Britain, once the most powerful nation on Earth, has become slightly dysfunctional and even a bit weird.  read more »

President Biden may have received a rapturous welcome in Ireland, but Democratic strategists in Washington will have taken little notice.  read more »

The Western response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is widely seen as a sign of a reinvigorated alliance of democracies against authoritarianism.  read more »

Few annual events produce more paranoid commentary than the World Economic Forum’s recently completed Davos conference.  read more »

Supposedly, European high-speed trains are so successful that the airlines stop operating when new high-speed rail corridors open. The reality is much more dismal  read more »