COPENHAGEN: All over Europe, budgets are being pared as a new age of austerity takes hold. Defense expenditures are proving to be the easiest of targets. Even Britain under the Tory David Cameron has joined the rush to slash defense (...)
COPENHAGEN: As winter approaches, many people in Central and Eastern Europe remember the chill caused last winter by Russia's deliberate cut-off of gas supplies. That shutdown was a harsh reminder that gas is now the Kremlin's primary political (...)
COPENHAGEN: So far, Europe's leaders seem to be mostly preoccupied with finding national answers to the global economic crisis. In particular, the leaders of "Old Europe have been reluctant to open up their coffers for the countries of "New Europe. (...)
Ireland should do the rest of Europe a favor and withdraw from the European Union. That seems to be the only tenable solution to the situation created by the Irish "No to the Lisbon Treaty. The Irish have created a problem for themselves. They (...)
Two dangerous signals were sent from NATO's Bucharest summit. The first was that Russia has reestablished a "sphere of interest in Europe, where countries are no longer allowed to pursue their own goals without Moscow accepting them. The other was (...)
Turkey has been given what looks like an ultimatum from the European Union Commission: open your ports for ships from Cyprus within a month, or you may risk a halt to the EU accession talks now underway. At the same time, the Commission's latest (...)
The global village places us all in proximity. We must learn to cultivate tolerance, for co-existence is the only option, writes Uffe Ellemann-Jensen*
The sad thing about the conflict over cartoons depicting Prophet Mohamed is that it gives strength (...)