Look At The Small Victories
The Swedes reject the euro by the resounding margin of 56 percent to 42 percent. Politicians and pundits proclaim the European Union has reached a crisis.
Europe Comes Of Age
Alas, to be born into the world without friends. That seems to be the fate of the draft constitution of the new European Union, to be presented at the summit in Thessaloniki on Friday.
The World Is Bipolar After All
What lessons can Europe draw from the war in Iraq? One is that U.S. hawks are right. There's only one superpower. The United States can go it alone, militarily.
Another Decade Of Diversity
The big bang is done. The champagne's been drunk. A new Europe stretches from Lisbon to Latvia. And now what? The reality is that the EU's troubles are just beginning.
All Wagner, All The Time
My hotel room has two televisions playing Wagner operas 24 hours a day. The bus across town weaves past streets named for Wagner's characters--Wotanstrasse, Tristanstrasse--all the while playing taped lectures on his musical motifs.
The Human Rights Blame Game
Half a century after the notion was first proposed, the International Criminal Court last week became a reality. It is the first permanent tribunal empowered to try individuals responsible for the most heinous crimes a state can commit: genocide, war crimes, torture, mass murder and rape.
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It!
From the United States in 1787 to Eastern Europe in 1989, new constitutions have almost always come in response to crisis. Yet nothing threatens the European Union today.
