BERLIN/MUMBAI–The announcement last week that India was entering into exclusive negotiations with Dassault for its Rafale fighter jet represents a major coup for the French defense contractor and for Nicolas Sarkozy. The embattled French president was evidently relieved by the prospect of the Rafale’s first ever foreign sale in a deal worth over US$10 billion, [...]

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WARSAW / WASHINGTON – For hundreds of years, Poland suffered from an overbearing Germany that trampled on the rights of the Polish nation, occupied the country, and, at times, worked to extinguish the Polish nation-state entirely. No wonder that there is a residue of skepticism and caution in Poland when it comes to relations with [...]

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WASHINGTON–Mitt Romney, one of the leading Republican U.S. Presidential candidates, has informed his countrymen over the past few weeks that U.S. President Barack Obama is working to turn the United States into Europe. This, one might think, is good news. Presumably it suggests that a unified “West” is closer to becoming a reality. The president, [...]

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WASHINGTON – Immigration and integration continue to be issues of paramount public concern in both the United States and Europe, and yet so rarely do we hear a transatlantic view on the common challenges faced by countries dealing with diverse immigrant populations. It is crucial to understand the views of the public on these key topics. [...]

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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – The entry of the four Central European countries — Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia (known also as the Visegrad 4 group, or V-4) — into the European Union on May 1,  2004, was the triumphant end to a long journey.  It was a time for celebration among the quartet of post-communist [...]

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BERLIN – British Prime Minister David Cameron came to Brussels expecting a Europe of 17 and 10.  He left behind a Europe of 26 and 1.  His veto of a treaty intended for all of Europe’s 27 member states, promoting greater fiscal union within the eurozone’s present 17 members, was certainly historic. But this was [...]

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CAMDEN, Maine – Once again, Europe’s leaders did not brandish the big bazooka that the markets are crying out for. Instead, Europe is doggedly pursuing its step-by-step approach as introduced several summits ago. Given the continuing disconnect between markets and politicians, we know from experience what will likely happen next: After an initially favorable response, [...]

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BRUSSELS — Old habits do die hard. In the past year, and dramatically in the past month, references to German dominance of Europe have multiplied. They are motivated by Berlin’s leading role in solving the Eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis, including in the deal agreed to today. Direct parallels with Nazi Germany’s ambitions have been dared: [...]

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BERLIN—It is German Question Time once more in Europe. Only Germany, the continent’s most powerful economy, and still miraculously going strong, can lead the way to a recovery. That much is admitted from Lisbon to Tallinn, and even in Berlin. The problem is that the Germans, less than two weeks before an historic EU summit [...]

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BRUSSELS – Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski came to Berlin and, in the presence of the German foreign policy establishment, asked – indeed, demanded – Germany to play the leading role in solving Europe’s crisis. Sikorski analyzed the elements of the crisis and arrived at the stark conclusion that only two scenarios for its continuation [...]

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