In the face of a rising Eurosceptic movement, the European Commission defended its political solidarity when it launched an unprecedented inquiry of Poland’s newly elected Law and Justice Party (PiS) on January 15, 2016. The investigation follows the Commission’s 2014 ...
The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a free-trade agreement, yet to be signed, that goes far beyond simply lowering tariffs. It establishes an almost definitive market union between the US and the EU. The agreement will indeed tear ...
It’s debate season in the United States, which also means it’s the season for exasperated threats of moving to Denmark if this or the other candidate wins. Left-wing sweetheart Bernie Sanders is particularly enamored with the Scandinavian country. Sanders has ...
Britain is gearing up for a historic referendum that will determine whether it remains a member of the European Union. Prime Minister David Cameron is in a tricky spot: he must please Eurosceptics in his party with a tough, Britain-first ...
Jack Anderson The term “Global War on Terror” may have been phased out by the Obama administration, but it continues nonetheless; terror attacks know no bounds. Islamic terrorists continue to display an apparently insatiable desire to wreak havoc upon both ...
The European Union has recently taken crucial steps towards a more humane response to the ongoing refugee crisis, which, despite being a positive development, seem to endanger existing EU asylum law and border systems. It is time for EU policymakers ...
This piece is the second installation of a two-part series on the Chinese One Belt, One Road strategy. To read the first installation, click here. Since Chinese President Xi Jinping first unveiled it in 2013, One Belt, One Road (OBOR) ...
When former Glimpse from the Globe correspondent Sean McGuire explained the origins of the Greek debt crisis and its devastating humanitarian consequences in October, 2012, he reported that Greece’s suicide rate had almost doubled between 2009 and 2010. Today, the ...
With the value of the euro at a 12-year low, Europe’s immigration issues are in the spotlight as tourists flock there to take advantage of the cheap currency. While visitors expect to see the famous buildings, historical plazas and pretty ...
The ongoing refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea is increasingly leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs), politicians, academics and civil society to vehemently criticize the EU’s approach to the crisis and the lack of a humanitarian operation in coherence with principles of human ...