Stephens: Europe Needs a Tea Party - WSJ.com

Stephens: Europe Needs a Tea Party - WSJ.com

• DECEMBER 14, 2010

The euro isn't what ails the continent.

Once upon a not-very-long-ago time, Europe was the land of the future.
In 2005, American trendspotter Jeremy Rifkin published "The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream." The same year, Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid came out with "The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy." A year later we got "Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century" by British think-tanker Mark Leonard.

U.S. Nukes in Europe Unnecessary - Council on Foreign Relations

U.S. Nukes in Europe Unnecessary - Council on Foreign Relations

U.S. Nukes in Europe Unnecessary

Author:	Micah Zenko, Fellow for Conflict Prevention

November 17, 2010

When NATO leaders gather in Lisbon this weekend to endorse the alliance's new Strategic Concept, the most contentious component will be the role assigned to U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.The Obama administration (incorrectly) claims that America's nuclear umbrella over NATO requires tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, and (justly) asserts that reductions in U.S. bombs in Europe must be matched by limitations of Russia's vastly larger tactical nuclear arsenal.
In squaring these positions, the United States should bring home its two hundred nuclear weapons from Europe.

YouTube - Video Dispatch: The Year Ahead for Europe

YouTube - Video Dispatch: The Year Ahead for Europe
Fractures within the European Union will continue — despite a more unified policymaking structure in Brussels — and become more apparent in 2010, analyst Marko Papic says.