After last year, when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the United States elected Donald Trump as president, xenophobic nationalism was beginning to seem irresistible.Yet France has now become the biggest power to buck the trend, electing as its president t

A big election year for Europe just got bigger.With France’s upcoming presidential election becoming a nail-biter, and Germans preparing to vote in September, British Prime Minister Theresa May has now called a snap election for June 8.The outcome will have far-reaching impl

British Prime Minister Theresa May is leading the United Kingdom towards a very “hard” Brexit in 2019 — and potentially off a cliff, if the UK leaves the European Union without an exit or trade deal.In her January 17 speech, May outlined her objectives for negotiating with the EU

Political instability in Italy is nothing new.

So much for the end of history.

Conservative Brexiteers — who campaigned for the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union — continue to blather about building an open, outward-looking, free-trading Britain.

Those campaigning for Britain to exit the European Union claim that doing so would make their country both freer and richer.They assert that after “Brexit”, the UK could quickly negotiate a bespoke agreement with the EU that offers all the benefits of free trade without the costs

If a clear signal was needed that the European Union is falling apart at an alarming rate, Hungary’s construction of razor-wire fences along the border with its fellow EU member Croatia is it.The crisis in the eurozone has, of course, fragmented financial flows, caused economies