After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo. Serbian troops were forced to withdraw, enabling an international military and political presence to take charge in the region. But was this w ...
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000072899 February 13, 2012 CNBC's Worldwide ExchangeEurope, Global EconomyGlobal EconomyEurope ...
The crisis in Europe is continuing, and the eurozone is expected to go back into recession this year. The monetary union envisaged by European luminaries decades ago was meant to promote growth and eliminate historical European political and economic divis ...
In 2014, citizens of Scotland will vote in a historic referendum on the issue of independence from the United Kingdom (UK). In a time of uncertainty in Europe, the impact of such a development on the UK, Scotland, and beyond is unclear. Scotland has a rich ...
In the search for answers to the Eurozone’s financial crisis, the solidarity of the political union has been called into question. The rising nationalism and anti-EU sentiment demonstrated in recent years’ national elections have spurred further questions ...
Can you name the Czech-born refugee, now a high-profile retired diplomat, who once infuriated President Vladimir Putin by calling his Chechnya policy “evil”? Can you name the island nation that realigned its time zone and “skipped” December 30, 2011? Belt ...
At a point during the eurozone crisis, Italy seemed to follow Greece’s downward spiral toward insolvency. As the eurozone’s biggest debtor and third largest economy, many worried that the country was too big to fail, but also too big to bail out. Since the ...
Europe is still in disarray, and states across the continent are reacting in different ways. Last year, the U.K. and the Czech Republic were the only EU members that rejected a new fiscal discipline treaty designed to prevent another eurozone crisis. Yet ...
Faced with today’s complex world order and despite an ongoing fiscal crisis, the EU is increasingly involved in tackling the world’s most pressing security issues. Please join The Chicago Council for an exclusive discussion with the EU’s Foreign Minister. ...
When Jim O’Neill coined the term BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) ten years ago, it marked the beginning of one of the most remarkable and transformative periods in economic history. We have experienced a dramatic shift in global growth from developed ...
