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France’s Epoch-Making Choice

Will Francois Hollande choose to make France like Germany or to make France like Italy?

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The Case for German Leadership on Health Care

Could the Germans actually be more “capitalist” than the Americans? Let’s consider drug prices.

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The New Europe: A Wobbly France Is Rebalanced by a Strong Poland

In the new Europe, alliances are thankfully built on performance and competence, not tradition and habit.

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The New German Dialectic

Can Angela Merkel make the case for Germany to lead a deeper European integration process?

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A Preview of the French Elections: The Benefits of Hollande

Could it be that France is in for a repeat of its transformative early 1980s experience?

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German Liberals’ Last Dance?

Will Germany have a nationwide CSU at last — in the form of the FDP?

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Will Europe Rise to the Occasion?

How successfully is Europe coping with its unprecedented fiscal challenges?

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Europe: The Continent That Follows Rahm Emanuel’s Maxim

Did former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel really utter his most famous words — "Never let a serious crisis go to waste" — in vain?

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Greed or Fear: What Drives the U.S. Corporate World?

How were corporate managers gripped by fear long before, and wholly independent of, 9/11?

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Today’s Europe and the Twisted Benefits of Rating Agencies

Why can rating agencies do more to improve the financial health of countries than anything else?

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