This Wall Street Journal editorial argues that the permanent crisis-management fund will only make permanent crisis more likely.

Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive and co-chief investment officer of PIMCO, writes in the Financial Times that the package of emergency loans to Ireland will not significantly change the economic landscape of Europe.

For all the success of German reunification, it left behind fateful seeds that sprouted into the current eurozone crisis. To overcome the current downturn, Europe should finish the job started two decades ago and retrofit the European Union with stronger political institutions, writes Mary Elise Sarotte in Foreign Affairs.

In this briefing note, Katinka Barsych examines the shifting relationship between Germany and the EU in the wake of the euro crisis and the ensuing financial aid package.

The Greek crisis puts the currency's very survival at risk. Europe must now take long overdue action, says Joseph Stiglitz.

As the EU struggles with Greece's debt woes Jean-Claude Trichet, an architect of the European monetary union, finds himself sidelined and ignored, writes Brian Blackstone in the Wall Street Journal.

This Open Society Institute report offers a comparative study of the different situations of Muslims throughout a sampling of EU countries.

Timothy Garton Ash examines global politics twenty years since 1989 and questions whether today's Europe, ""mired in the narcissism of minor difference," can recapture the strategic boldness and historical imagination of 1989.

With Ireland passing the Lisbon treaty, Gideon Rachman contends that the European Union is staking a claim to be taken seriously as a global superpower, particularly with the Group of 20 where Europeans hold eight seats at the conference.

In a New York Times editorial, Karen Donfried says Europe's interest in Obama needs to translate into military assistance in Afghanistan and diplomatic support with Iran.

This paper analyzes the status and location of the military installations of the member states of the European Union and their potential role for the European security and defence policy.

In the Financial Times, Ralph Atkins discusses the long-term prospects for the euro ten years after its establishment.

An Economist news analysis argues that as capital markets become more discriminating, it no longer affords shelter from reform.

Since 2001, Europe finds itself increasingly involved in international military operations. In light of this upsurge in military preparations and deployments, the Center for Strategic & International Studies created this report to track trends in European defense spending. Ultimately, if government spending is an indicator of the priority given to policy areas, understanding trends in defense spending can shed light on whether Europe is indeed serious about improving its military capabilities.

The European Environment Agency tracks the European Union's progress toward meeting its Kyoto targets.

This Belfer Center report discusses the current policy structures in place to combat climate change and international improvements that can be made.

To meet its obligations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations under the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union established the first cap-and-trade system for carbon dioxide emissions in the world starting in 2005. This report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change discusses the development, structure, and performance of this system to date.

Thomas L. Brewer writes about the rapidly expanding joint climate-trade agenda that arose after the Bali international climate change conference in December 2007.

In an article published by Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Simon Bulmer and Roderick Parkes evaluate the prospects for a new bilateralism in EU Affairs.

This study sets out to highlight differences between the US and European approaches to crisis management and to explore possibilities for more intensive co-operation.