THE LAST TIME he served as Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban made himself a persona non grata in Washington...
Among the first acts of Mr. Orban's new government was a law granting passports to ethnic Hungarians living in other countries.
The passport measure might be dismissed as symbolic. But a second major initiative of the new government -- an attempt to impose sweeping new controls on the media -- is not.
The German Der Spiegel's graphics on the crisis of the euro-zone.
PRAGUE?The new Czech central bank governor said uncertainty surrounding the euro zone in the wake of the Greek debt crisis is so great that there is no point considering adopting the common currency for now and expressed serious reservations about possible new Europe-wide regulations.
Full article (as of 10 July 2010)
Excerpt, for full text see attached pdf.
An article by Charles A. Kupchan
Europe is hardly headed back to war; its nations have lost their taste for armed rivalries. Instead, less dramatically but no less definitively, European politics will become less European and more national, until the E.U. becomes a union in name only. This may seem no great loss to some, but in a world that sorely needs the E.U.'s aggregate will, wealth and muscle, a fragmented and introverted Europe would constitute a historical setback.
