Europe

Playing Defense

Barely 100 days into his presidency, Francois Hollande is already trying to persuade France that his administration isn't sinking. 

BY ERIC PAPE | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Paul Krugman's Baltic Problem

Why is the Nobel Prize-winning economist mocking the countries that have escaped the eurocrisis?

BY ANDERS ÅSLUND | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Tensions in September

BY RACHEL DOBBS | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The Great Ballot Box Caper

How do you conduct an election when contending political forces don't agree on the rules? An unlikely study in compromise from Northern Ireland in 2005.

BY MICHAEL SCHARFF | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

September Is the Cruelest Month

Welcome back from summer holiday, Europeans! Get ready for 30 days that will determine the fate of your continent.

BY TYSON BARKER | AUGUST 30, 2012

Breivik Won

In the end, Norway's killer got what he wanted: official recognition that his extremist ideology doesn't make him a madman.

BY ELIAS GROLL | AUGUST 24, 2012

Don't You Forget About Me

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is not about to go quietly into the night.

BY ERIC PAPE | AUGUST 16, 2012

A Fistful of Kronor

European leaders wouldn't be so befuddled about how to solve their economic crisis if they simply looked north.

BY PETER WOLODARSKI | AUGUST 15, 2012

King Boris

Could Boris Johnson, the ridiculous yet charming mayor of London, really go on to lead Britain?

BY ALEX MASSIE | AUGUST 9, 2012

Making Friends with Friends

Mitt Romney, Charles Krauthammer, and conservative pundits are plain wrong: Barack Obama hasn't lost Europe. That was his predecessor's doing.

BY SEAN KAY | AUGUST 7, 2012

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor French Millionaires

So France’s new Socialist president wants to soak the rich? My message to French job-creators fleeing the nouveau régime: Mississippi welcomes you.

BY HALEY BARBOUR | AUGUST 7, 2012

Climate of Failure

Environmentalists are just now waking up to the reality that if we're going to stop global warming, we're going to have to be a lot more politically savvy.

BY ROGER PIELKE JR. | AUGUST 6, 2012

Charting the Crash

A close look at the numbers behind the woes of Club Med.

BY SHIMELSE ALI, URI DADUSH, ZAAHIRA WYNE | AUGUST 3, 2012

August Heats Up

Follow the events of August 1962, as Cold War tensions continue to unfold in the run-up to the Cuban missile crisis.

BY RACHEL DOBBS | AUGUST 2, 2012

A Candidate Abroad

Mitt Romney's whirlwind tour proved the GOP nominee still has some things to learn on foreign policy.

JULY 31, 2012

How Obama Lost Poland

Can Romney win back America's old post-Cold War ally?

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | JULY 30, 2012

Longform's Picks of the Week

The best stories from around the world.

JULY 27, 2012

Mitt Meets the Brits

London gets a crash course in the 2012 election.

BY ALISTAIR BURNETT | JULY 26, 2012

Romanian Reality

Democracy is working just as it should in the EU's newest member state, argues the country's prime minister.

BY VICTOR PONTA | JULY 26, 2012

Once Upon a Time in London

Rare photographs of a time when Britain really mattered.

JULY 25, 2012

The End of the Affair

Four years after Barack Obama's landmark Berlin speech, the transatlantic alliance is fading fast. What went wrong?

BY MARK LEONARD | JULY 24, 2012

Weird World of Sports

Fourteen events we'd like to see at the next Olympics.

BY HILLARY HURD | JULY 23, 2012

Think Again: The Eurocrisis

Markets are crashing. The euro is hurting. Here's why the continent's financial crisis is even messier than it appears, and how the blowback could hit the United States in the face.

BY DAVID GORDON, DOUGLAS REDIKER | JULY 23, 2012

Liberté, Egalité, Hilarité

The best political cartoons of the French Revolution.

BY ADRIENNE KLASA | JULY 13, 2012

Made in the Shade

How cloudy Germany became the world's solar superpower, and then lost everything.

BY AARON WIENER | JULY 9, 2012

Sarkozy's Houdini Act

Is France's embittered former president trying to hide from prosecution or quietly laying the groundwork for a big comeback?

BY ERIC PAPE | JULY 6, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

Scientists discover the Higgs boson, fireworks around the globe, and refugees flee to South Sudan.

JULY 6, 2012

British r Coming. Pls RT!

What if Twitter had been around during the American Revolution?

JULY 3, 2012

The Prince vs. the 'Paupers'

Liechtenstein's billionaire royal family is threatening to literally abandon its tiny, wealthy principality over a referendum to curtail its power. Is this the coming of the Liechtenspring?

BY MICHAEL Z. WISE | JUNE 29, 2012

EuroFail

How many summits does it take to NOT solve the eurocrisis?

BY URI FRIEDMAN, HILLARY HURD | JUNE 28, 2012