ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- British Premier David Cameron set himself an almost impossible task when he sought to explain his policy on the European Union.
PARIS, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- In medical terms, an acute illness is short, sharp and nasty. A chronic illness is one that lasts a long term and the patient has to learn to live with it. The euro crisis has just gone from its acute to its chronic phase.
PARIS, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Europe's course this year will be defined by two elections in major countries: Italy goes to the polls in the last weekend in February and Germany has general election in September.
PARIS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The new year is not beginning well and challenges -- including food security, economies and political upheaval -- face the Earth.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The European Union and the United States have revived the venerable scheme of a free trade pact between the two giants of the global economy.
LONDON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- It will take something close to a miracle to stop average temperatures rising more than 2 degrees and sea level rise down to 3 feet because of climate change.
PARIS, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The downgrading of its debt by Moody's led to a further downgrade of the eurozone's two bailout funds. France is becoming part of the euro's problem, rather than part of a solution.
VIENNA, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Britain found key allies in Germany, Holland and Sweden to support its call for real cuts in planned future spending during talks on the next EU budget.
LONDON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- With a lot of major events grabbing attention, one big story not in the forefront is Japan, which could be gestating the next global disaster.
LONDON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Driven by bad wheat and a serious collapse the Siberian harvest, world wheat prices and are once more flirting with those panic prices of 2007 and 2008.
BERLIN, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel tells a regional party congress in Pomerania they should expect the euro crisis to grind on "for another five years or more."
ZURICH, Switzerland, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- It should come as no surprise to Americans that most Europeans are hoping that Obama wins re-election. This is not because he has been good for Europe.
ZURICH, Switzerland, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel's German government has reportedly decided that it will do what is required to keep Greece in the euro but are giving up on keeping Britain the European Union.
FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Economic analysis has been dominated by the Keynesians, who want more government stimulus spending, and the followers of Hayek, who insist on cutting public spending. But perhaps we should be listening to the French.
FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The complexity of the way the euro has been coming apart at the seams is now matched by the even more highly charged way that the states of Europe seem to be following suit.
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