By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
ZURICH, Switzerland, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Italy has rung the bell to launch the next round of the euro crisis.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
STUTTGART, Germany, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The adulation and euphoria surrounding Angela Merkel's re-election success is getting out of hand. The curse of the third term now lies in wait.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
DUSSELDORF, Germany, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Beneath the apparently smooth path to re-election of Chancellor Angela Merkel, the tectonic plates of German politics are shifting ominously.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
DUSSELDORF, Germany, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The Group of 20 summit should have secured three achievements, which had been thoroughly discussed in advance and which had nothing to do with Syria.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Prime Minister David Cameron refuses to show personal humiliation and political castration after his defeat in Parliament regarding military action in Syria.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Not since Mikhail Gorbachev began speaking of 'Glasnost' and 'Perestroika' has there been such a ferment among policy intellectuals.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- This is eerie. Everything has suddenly gone upside down in the global economy. Europe is growing and China is slowing. Emergent markets are faltering and mature ones are suddenly looking perky. The United States is about to become the world's top oil and gas producer.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Next year Scotland will vote in a referendum on independence from Britain, amid a well-orchestrated campaign of sentimental nationalism which could lead to a shrunken Britain.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Any suggestion that the United States is a heavily taxed country flies in face of the historical evidence. .
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
BERGERAC, France, July 29 (UPI) -- For the past two years, Europe has been gripped by the prospect of Grexit, a forced withdrawal by an impoverished Greece from the euro currency. Maybe Europe was looking in the wrong direction. Brexit, a voluntary British withdrawal, now seems ever more likely.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- Edward Snowden's revelations create friction between U.S., Europe.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- The German export machine is slowing, with imports rising and massive trade imbalances that have been the prime cause of the euro crisis closing fast.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, July 8 (UPI) -- For the beleaguered small countries of Europe, the euro crisis has become a form of torture, a death by a thousand cuts.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
LONDON, July 1 (UPI) -- Something very remarkable is taking place in Britain, a policy revolution in which three years of austerity are now to be balanced by the government's new announcement of a dramatic $150 billion surge in infrastructure spending.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, June 24 (UPI) -- It is starting to look as though France might be the country to watch this fall as the next phase of the European crisis unfolds.
