Recently added articles from European Affairs:

Ideological convergence: a new way.(Letter from the Publisher)

Jun 22, 2007; Grapin, Jacqueline ... In the seven years since George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton as President, ideological divergence between the United States and the European Union has come to be considered the natural state of Transatlantic affairs. In the U.S., religiosity has been channeled into electoral politics ...

EU summit sets blueprint for improved decision-making.(Cover story)

Jun 22, 2007; Froehlich, Stefan ... The political credibility and diplomatic prospects of the European Union have distinctly improved with the emergence of a new leading troika in Europe: Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel, the longest-serving of the three. This ...

U.S. attitudes evolve about EU security ambitions.

Jun 22, 2007; Oudraat, Chantal de Jonge ... When it comes to U.S. thinking about the development of a security policy by the European Union, there are three main schools of thought that can be discerned in the policy community. The spectrum is always present, but dominance has evolved among the three currents. All the Americans ...

Tony Blair's vision for Europe: economic modernization can save our societies.(VERBATIM)

Jun 22, 2007 ... When then-Prime Minister Tony Blair went to the podium of the European Parliament in June 2005, he spoke at one of the darkest hours in the history of the European Union. The assembly was reeling under the shock of seeing the draft Constitution repudiated by voters in France. When Blair ...

U.S. and EU must not get distracted from agenda: a talk with European Affairs on June 25, 2007 (excerpts).(Leader in Focus)(Interview)(Excerpt)

Jun 22, 2007; Volker, Kurt ... The State Department's European affairs bureau has publicly set itself three main current ambitions: settlement in Kosovo, stability in Afghanistan, status-quo with Russia. In practice, none of these goals seems likely to be reached on the schedule Washington had hoped for. On ...

Regulatory approaches have to fit societal preferences.(Consumer Affairs)

Jun 22, 2007 ... Conventional wisdom holds this syllogism about prescription drugs: they cost much more in the United States than in Europe; the price differential is due to European governments' desire to keep down costs to their health-care spending; and the long-term effect is driving corporate research ...

Pharmaceuticals' pricing: U.S. and European strategies.(Consumer Affairs)

Jun 22, 2007; Jacobson, Gretchen A. ... As one of the fastest growing portions of healthcare costs in the United States, drug expenditures have been a matter of concern in the U.S. for many years. (1) It is therefore hardly surprising that prices of pharmaceuticals in the U.S. are often compared to those of other developed ...

Food labeling: lessons learned.(Consumer Affairs)

Jun 22, 2007; Earley, Jane ... Now that the United States has begun to experience the kinds of food scares that rocked Europe several years ago, more American consumers are starting to worry about the efficacy of the food-safety system that is supposed to protect them. Some people fear negligent or criminal adulteration ...

U.S. intelligence tackles climate change.(Environment)

Jun 22, 2007; Treverton, Gregory F. ... When congressional Democrats mandated a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) assessing climate change's potential effect on national security, Republicans accused them of caring more about "bugs and bunnies" than hunting for al Qaeda. The effort to prevent the estimate failed, but the ...

Outflanking Russia's energy grip on Europe.(Energy)

Jun 22, 2007; Bryza, Matthew ... Confronted with new and ongoing challenges to energy supplies--our own and those of our friends in Europe--this administration has decided to reorganize some policies and renew a long-standing U.S.-led effort aimed at expanding oil and gas production in the Caspian, using public-private ...

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945.

Jun 22, 2007 ... National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The show--the first survey of the subject--showcases more than 150 pieces demonstrating the incredible success and popularity of photography in Austria, Czechoslovakia Germany, Hungary, and Poland at a time of great social and political ...

A tale of two Vaclavs.(Letter from Prague)

Jun 22, 2007; Kraus, Michael ... "Which is the most neutral country in the world? Czechoslovakia. It refuses to intervene even in its own internal affairs." So went an anecdote I heard twenty years ago in communist-era Prague. But now it is June 2007. The Czechs joined NATO in 1999 and the EU in 2004, and President George ...

Europe is not in zero-sum game with NATO.(Defense)

Jun 22, 2007; Witney, Nick ... It is intriguing how close Europe came, back in the early 1950s, to establishing a European Defense Community. Forget the sort of carefully-nuanced initiatives which proceed under the banner of European defense today: this would have been real, full-blooded common defense, with a standing ...

The French approach to a European defense industrial base.(Defense)

Jun 22, 2007; Auroy, Patrick ... As the man in charge of strategy at France's Delegation Generale de l'Armement (the French Armaments Agency), the subject of European cooperation on procurement is obviously important to me because of my responsibility for getting our troops the weapons they need. More than 25 percent of ...

New developments in defense procurement policies in Europe.(Defense)

Jun 22, 2007; Retat, Bernard ... Today, defense equipment procurement in Europe is basically performed nationally. Each country independently determines its equipment requirements and then develops and deploys that equipment via its own national procedures. There are a few programs conducted in multilateral cooperation, ...

"Fortress Europe" overtones heard.(Defense)

Jun 22, 2007 ... If NATO is not the place to go for armaments cooperation, we should look towards the European Defense Agency (EDA) and the European Commission, especially on homeland security issues. This is an area which absolutely should be pursued. Of course, EDA's first foray did not succeed: it was ...

U.S. industry also chafes at export restrictions.(Defense)

Jun 22, 2007 ... Here's something you might not have expected to find on the U.S. munitions list: toilets. But along with missile-guidance systems, night vision goggles, torpedoes, tanks, radars and nuclear warheads, the State Department requires a special license to export toilets if they are ...

Eurozone: a new global context favors long-term growth.(Economy)

Jun 22, 2007; Mersch, Yves ... The economic prospects of Europe and other parts of the world have traditionally hinged on the U.S. economy. Now most economists concur with the view that the U.S. economy is sneezing. Yet this time the rest of the world is not expected to catch a cold. Why not? Why is there so much ...

The Foundation: A Great American Secret.(Brief article)(Book review)

Jun 22, 2007 ... The Foundation: A Great American Secret By Joel L. Fleishman, Public Affairs, 2007, 341 pages Foundations are a largely American phenomenon and they matter. Spending $32 billion per year, they spur the economy and philanthropy in America--and the world ....

Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World.(Brief article)(Book review)

Jun 22, 2007 ... Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World By Andrew Wilson, Yale University Press, 2005, 352 pages Foreign Affairs had this description of this book. "By fair means or foul (mostly foul), regimes throughout the post-Soviet region have mastered the art of ...