By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
ZURICH, Switzerland, March 4 (UPI) -- Two overwhelming facts about women today are that the world is facing a remarkable shortage of females and that they are becoming the better-educated gender.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
BRUSSELS, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- There is a significant chance that by this time next week the world could be back in the throes of a full-blooded financial crisis.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Europeans are pinning more of their hopes on President Barack Obama's proposal for a Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to kick-start growth.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Against most predictions and against tough odds, British prime minister David Cameron won the battle of the European budget last week. But he may have condemned himself to defeat in the far more important and long-term campaign to reform and secure Britain's future relations with its European partners.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Currency markets overreact, which explains some of the wide swings in relative currency values in recent years.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The pledge by Prime Minister David Cameron of a referendum on Britain's continued membership of the European Union has brought a wide range of reactions.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
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.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
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.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
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.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The new year is not beginning well and challenges -- including food security, economies and political upheaval -- face the Earth.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
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.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
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.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
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.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
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.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
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.
