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Europe to the rescue as Trump threatens Iran nuclear deal
U.S. President Donald Trump may do something characteristically foolish this month and decide not to re-certify the nuclear deal with Iran he labeled “an embarrassment” at last month’s U.N. General...
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Hail Wolfgang!
LONDON — The departure of Germany’s powerful finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, was met with a huge sigh of relief across Southern Europe. This was most apparent in Athens, where Schäuble is the face...
View ArticleTurkey to Europe: We did our part, now you do yours
The humanitarian catastrophe that engulfed Europe in the summer of 2015, when hundreds of thousands fled war in Syria and conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Africa is now under control — in...
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When Big Data went to war — and lost
On October 1, 2017, a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad killed Spc. Alexander W. Missildine. The 20-year-old was the latest American soldier to die in a war that had lasted, in some form or another,...
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Time for Germany to overcome Nazi past and join EU’s defense
It is time for Germany to step out of the shadow of its Nazi past and take its share of responsibility for international security. With an assertive Russia flexing its muscles to the east, Islamist...
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The first great EU novel
BERLIN — The European Union has been the subject of countless academic papers and newspaper articles. It inspired a comic-book character (called Captain Euro) and an anthem (they stole it from...
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How Putin made me break up with bitcoin
KIEV — I fell in love with bitcoin for ideological reasons. Free from rapacious banks with their massive transaction fees and pesky government interference, the cryptocurrency promised to reinvent the...
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Why Europe isn’t worried by Austria’s right tilt (but should be)
Regardless of whether it joins the next Austrian government, the far-right Freedom Party was the victor in the country’s election last Sunday. Like Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, the...
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In pictures: Faces of desperation
Photojournalist Kevin Frayer spent the last several weeks documenting the humanitarian crisis of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar — a situation the United Nations has called “a textbook...
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Newt Gingrich, European man
KIEV, Ukraine — Newt Gingrich — the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, credited with creating the confrontational, hyper-partisan style of politics that’s taken hold of Washington —...
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Hail Schäuble!
LONDON — The departure of Germany’s powerful finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, was met with a huge sigh of relief across Southern Europe. This was most apparent in Athens, where Schäuble is the face...
View ArticleTurkey to Europe: We did our part, now you do yours
The humanitarian catastrophe that engulfed Europe in the summer of 2015, when hundreds of thousands fled war in Syria and conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Africa is now under control — in...
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When Big Data went to war — and lost
On October 1, 2017, a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad killed Spc. Alexander W. Missildine. The 20-year-old was the latest American soldier to die in a war that had lasted, in some form or another,...
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Time for Germany to overcome Nazi past and join EU’s defense
It is time for Germany to step out of the shadow of its Nazi past and take its share of responsibility for international security. With an assertive Russia flexing its muscles to the east, Islamist...
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How Putin made me break up with bitcoin
KIEV — I fell in love with bitcoin for ideological reasons. Free from rapacious banks with their massive transaction fees and pesky government interference, the cryptocurrency promised to reinvent the...
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The first great EU novel
BERLIN — The European Union has been the subject of countless academic papers and newspaper articles. It inspired a comic-book character (called Captain Euro) and an anthem (they stole it from...
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Why Europe isn’t worried by Austria’s right tilt (but should be)
Regardless of whether it joins the next Austrian government, the far-right Freedom Party was the victor in the country’s election last Sunday. Like Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, the...
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In pictures: Faces of desperation
Photojournalist Kevin Frayer spent the last several weeks documenting the humanitarian crisis of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar — a situation the United Nations has called “a textbook...
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Newt Gingrich, European man
KIEV — Newt Gingrich — the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, credited with creating the confrontational, hyper-partisan style of politics that’s taken hold of Washington — will soon...
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Where Europe went wrong
Sometimes an outsider’s eye perceives symptoms of decay more clearly than those who live in the midst of Europe’s daily churn. In “Fractured Continent: Europe’s crises and the fate of the West,”...
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