PARIS, July 7 (UPI) -- Is the G8 summit the right vehicle to tackle the 3F crisis of finance, fuel and food? Maybe not, but it has some value.

BERLIN, June 9 (UPI) -- When U.S. President George W. Bush visits Europe for the last time in his presidential career this week, no demonstrators will line his path. It's not that Bush all of a sudden has become popular -- he simply is too lame of a duck to be worth the trouble.

MOSCOW, April 8 (UPI) -- Why has the United States suddenly started to pay attention to Ukraine in the last few months of President Bush's administration?

WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- President Bush's two-day visit to Kiev on the eve of NATO's April 2-4 summit in Bucharest, Romania, is his first visit to Ukraine and therefore long overdue. His predecessor, Bill Clinton, visited Ukraine on three occasions. Bush's visit to Ukraine ahead of the NATO summit is seen as a strong show of U.S. support for NATO enlargement to Ukraine and Georgia.

WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- Managing this week's NATO and Russian summits will be one of the most complex international challenges President George Bush has faced because everything will hinge on his own personal diplomacy.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The euro is riding high, but how well is Europe doing really?

LOS ANGELES, June 1 (UPI) -- U.S experts on international relations hailed the new set of leaders taking over what former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once called "old Europe."

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Germany, while publicly opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq, assisted it by passing on a copy of Saddam Hussein's defense plan, The New York Times reports.

PARIS, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is criticizing France, Germany and other parts of so-called Old Europe.