Look Closer: Tax Increases, Not Spending Cuts, Are the Harmful Austerity
Proponents of government spending want to use the recent history of Europe as evidence that spending cuts are harmful, but their arguments lose traction when… Read More
Iceland Charts a Course Away from the EU
In September, Iceland decided to officially suspend accession talks with the European Union. The decision indicates that the island nation will likely seek to chart… Read More
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Rapid Response Force Relies on Permanent U.S. Base in Europe
The U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (BCT) recently established an Army Contingency Response Force—a rapidly deployable company-size unit—to respond to crises in Europe… Read More
Generating German Energy Poverty
What began as a daring endeavor to bring Germans more renewable energy and wean the country off nuclear energy by 2022 has turned German energy… Read More
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Gibraltar Tensions Highlight the Importance of U.S. Engagement in Europe
This week, the United Kingdom is sending 10 naval ships through the Mediterranean as part of a routine yearly deployment. In light of recent Spanish… Read More
EU Finally Begins to Take Hezbollah Threat Seriously
Yesterday, the European Union finally reached the necessary consensus among its 28 member states to list Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terrorist organization. The decision… Read More
A Band-Aid for Derivatives Trading
American regulators yesterday agreed, both internally and with the European Union, on how to deal with the trading of financial derivatives beyond U.S. shores. The… Read More
Hezbollah: European Union Keeps Its Head in the Sand
On June 19, a meeting of European Union countries failed to agree on a United Kingdom–sponsored proposal to list the military wing of Hezbollah as… Read More
“Russian Reset”: Time to Listen to the Critics
In a well-reasoned broadside, The Washington Post’s editorial board blasted President Obama’s Russian policy and his Berlin speech this past Thursday. The editorial justly criticized… Read More
American Betrayal: How Enemies Within Harm the U.S.
The topic of a recent Heritage event on American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, by noted author and columnist Diana West, was… Read More
