Both the U.S. and E.U. mandate that their respective states be republics (i.e., representative democracies), and thus assuming an autocratic...

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 25, 2013, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank(ECB)...

Holding back additional transfers of governmental sovereignty from the state legislatures to the E.U.’s legislative chambers not only inevi...

In May 2013, German Chancellor Angela Merkel interjected herself into the brewing trade conflict between the E.U. and China. At issue was t...

In April 2013, Deutsche Welle reported that the German central bank had “analyzed possible effect a domestic growth package could have on...

On September 12, 2012, a psychological threshold was reached in the E.U. on the way toward “ever closer union.” That is to say, at the end ...

According to one director of a public-debt consulting firm in the E.U., “In the realm of investor perceptions, Spain h...

Under pressure to join a unity government in Greece with the New Democracy and Socialist parties, Tsipras of a “radical left” Syriza party...

As Greek party leaders struggled to put together a government in May 2012 after a splintering election, a major (and contentious) issue wa...

The Socialists and then the New Democracy Party told Greeks that sacrifices were necessary to avert default on the state’s debt. This po...

Germany was ruling out any substantive shift in its approach to Europe's debt crisis despite a rising chorus of opposition to Berlin...

Concerning the legal environment of business, the lawyers who teach as full-time instructors in American business schools affirm that manag...

As October 2011 was coming to an end, George Papandreou, prime minister of Greece, “stunned Europe by announcing a referendum” on the lates...

In the E.U. state of Germany, Angela Merkel had her work cut out for her in getting her coalition to carry the German House, or Bundestag. ...