Multitudes relocate to Europe every year to escape political oppression, pursue economic opportunity and flee war zones. But integrating many of these immigrants and refugees into Europe has been difficult, and Europeans express concern that uncontrolled migration could threaten their culture....

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spent four days in early March 2011, like many around the world, watching the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, unfold on television. These events caused Merkel, a reasoned supporter of nuclear energy, to make a radical change in direction. On March 15, Merkel...

More than five decades after World War ii and two decades since the end of the cold War and its corresponding threat of nuclear annihilation, existential security concerns seem far from the minds of average Europeans. This sense of safety, combined with tight government budgets in a time of...

In the heat of the debt crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made an admission that clarified for many the stark choices facing Europe: rolling government debt too far into the future was no longer an option for Germany because there was no guarantee the country’s aging population could...