Europe

Russia and Europe are tilting toward confrontation. The European defense posture for the past 70+ years has been predicated on NATO–a fancy acronym for “the United States is our [...]

You can also read the State of the Pandemic series’ take on the United States, Latin America, the Persian Gulf, East Asia and the BRICS.  There is no such thing as “Europe.” [...]

The past few several weeks have been busy for the Europeans, easily generating more events of consequence than at any time since at least the 2007 financial crisis. There is no specific trigger [...]

The British government announced March 27 that Prime Minister Boris Johnson tested positive for coronavirus, making him the first world leader to do so. As the United Kingdom is an advanced [...]

In the age of coronavirus, Europe’s near-term future is bleak. European headlines in coming weeks will be about coronavirus deaths. In large part the issue is demographic. Coronavirus is far [...]

Not all epidemics are created equal, even when everyone is battling the same pathogen. Let’s start with timing and intensity. The imminent coronavirus wave of cases about to hit the United [...]

After three years of drama, on midnight Jan 31 the Brits finally left the European Union. The next piece of the Brexit drama will be a decidedly non-European affair, instead being between a [...]

Bonds are sliding toward negative territory across the developed world.  Among the largest industrialized economies, only the United States is offering over 2% yields on 30-year bonds. And [...]

The United Kingdom stands at the precipice of its greatest change since the collapse of empire. It will be just as painful. This week Britain got a new parliamentary grouping – the [...]

Jump to other parts of this series: Intro, France, Germany, UK, Japan, and Canada. In any discussion of foreign affairs the same list of powerful countries have been [...]