Shortly before leaving office, Mexican President Felipe Canderón sent to the Mexican legislature a proposal to amend the state’s constitu...

Bashing the French in a major article on their lack of business competitiveness, the Economist was the target of la colère en Paris in N...

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In November 2012, the New York Times reported that the European Union was offering “crucial support for the new Syrian political opposi...

The International Energy Agency projected in 2012 that a shale-oil boom would catapult the United States over the state of Saudi Arabia...

In 2012, women made up 13.7% of board positions in large listed companies in the E.U., and 15% for nonexecutive board positions, acc...

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During the summer of 2012, it was all too easy, especially for financial analysts (whose expertise is on finance rather than politics), t...

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If Douglas Carswell, a member of the House of Commons, had his way, Britain would secede from the E.U. before Prince Charles could say, “hi...

In late October 2012, federal prosecutors in New York formally accused Bank of America of “carrying out a scheme, started by its Countryw...

Finland became a state in the European Union in 1995 and adopted the euro at its birth in 1999. In terms of population, the state is betw...