Europe

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

Tweet With Caution

The government is watching.

BY JAMIE BARTLETT AND CARL MILLER | JUNE 26, 2012

No Special Sauce on This Currywurst

The end of the German "miracle" is coming.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JUNE 25, 2012

Flirting with Disaster

Is Greece a failed state?

BY PATRICIA TAFT | JUNE 19, 2012

For Multilateralism, Is This the Dark Moment Before the Dawn?

Let's hope so.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 18, 2012

Drachmail and the New Democrats

Can Germany's Angela Merkel hold fast against Greek brinksmanship?

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | JUNE 18, 2012

8 Geographical Pivot Points

From Angola to Yemen, eight countries whose futures are tied up in the land they occupy.

BY MARGARET SLATTERY | JUNE 18, 2012

Famous KGB Spies: Where Are They Now?

The strange-but-true life stories of seven Soviet spooks.

BY KATIE CELLA | JUNE 18, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

Egypt implodes (again), Greeks head for the polls, and Shiite pilgrims converge on a bloody Baghdad.

JUNE 15, 2012

Greeks Don't Want a Grexit

The pundits say that Greece will have to drop the euro after Sunday's election. But that's not what the Greek people want.

BY LOUIS KLAREVAS | JUNE 14, 2012

12 Signs of the Europocalypse

From the Chinese buying spree to the rise of extremism, here's what to watch for as the continent teeters on the brink of disaster.

BY DOUGLAS REDIKER, DAVID GORDON | JUNE 12, 2012

Up Close and Angry

The CIA's Sabrina De Sousa dishes on the Bush administration officials who ordered the botched extraordinary rendition operation -- or kidnapping, if you're an Italian judge -- that made her a wanted woman.

BY JEFF STEIN | JUNE 12, 2012

Greece's MAD Strategy

When faced with the nuclear option of a Grexit, will Germany blink?

BY THOMAS WRIGHT | JUNE 11, 2012

Sparking a Driving Revolution

Are electric cars finally having their moment?

BY HILLARY HURD AND KATIE CELLA | JUNE 8, 2012

Something's Rotten in Athens

Scenes from a failing economy.

BY TIMOTHY FADEK | JUNE 6, 2012