3 Ways Cameron Can Unify Britain If Voters Reject Brexit
When polls close tonight on the national referendum on European Union membership, Britons will choose to remain in the EU or they will choose a “Brexit.” But this vote will stand as a huge defeat for Europe either way. In…
Britain’s Likely to Remain in the EU — but Then What?
Britain’s June 23 referendum on its European Union membership is wracking the world’s nerves now. And no wonder: As every world leader to weigh in on the question asserts, the negative consequences of a British exit—political, diplomatic, financial, economic, and…
While Europe Girds for the Next Attack, Is the US in ISIS’s Crosshairs?
The terror attacks in Brussels last week fairly zapped the American political conversation. Among our presidential aspirants, it’s suddenly all about foreign policy and national security—a long overdue focus. We have two new truths confronting us now. One, the Islamic…
We brought this on ourselves, and we are the terrorists, too
There is no more ducking the point: It’s not terror only when it happens to us. Our “shock and awe” is terror, too Within an hour or two of the bombings in Brussels Monday, it was plain that there were…
Add ‘Brexit’ to the Immigration Crisis that Threatens Europe
This has been a very bad year for the European Union. Until recently, you could have put the EU in that elite category reserved for too-big-to-fail institutions. But not anymore. In the simplest terms, Europe’s long-held ambition to unify like-minded…
Europe’s Deal with Greece Nearly Splits the Eurozone
Leaders of the eurozone nations put Greeks and other Europeans on urgent notice at a hastily called summit in Brussels late Sunday evening: The group worked through the night and agreed to a new $100 billion bailout with serious reforms…
Greece, Britain, and the EU: A Tale of Two Exits?
A step at a time over the past seven years, the true victim of financial, economic, social, and now political crisis has emerged. No, it’s not the Greeks, or the Spanish or Portuguese, not the Irish or the Italians: It’s…
Why Greece Should Consider a Eurozone ‘Grexit’
Slower than a roller coaster but faster than a glacier, Europe advances toward a denouement on the Greek questions—and there are several at this point. Fearful of the answers, Europeans are doing what they seem to do best, which is…
For Greece Now, It’s Political and Economic Mess
There’s nothing wrong with buying time if that’s your need. And Greece’s daring new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis got some when he struck a deal in Brussels Friday to extend the European Union’s bailout for four months. The markets greeted…
The Fight to Win the Confidence of the Continent
Elections to the European parliament ended Sunday with far less commotion than those held in Ukraine the same day. In Ukraine, the polls were no more than politics as war by other means, while the EU just registered a seismometer’s…
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