Reagan – Tear Down This Wall
West Berlin. June 12, 1987. President Ronald Reagan. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come...
View ArticleAzerbaijan’s Role as Energy, Security Provider Increases
One issue of paramount importance in the advance of free markets and democracy is material security — not material comfort, not material largesse, but material security. Wars do not all arise from...
View ArticleUkraine Celebrates 70-Year-Old Football Match
Ukraine was co-host of Euro 2012. None of the matches were likely to be as memorable as that played 70 years ago between teams from Ukraine, then under Nazi occupation, and a Germany military team....
View ArticleIs Germany’s Status as Moral Arbiter of Europe Endangered?
Protests broken by force; a journalist, imprisoned, vows to uncover the truth; international bodies and NGOs examine the wreckage to find out what went wrong. It’s a story that by rights should belong...
View ArticleMerkel’s Party Begins to Thaw on Tymoshenko
Bundestag deputy Karl-Georg Wellmann, a member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a member of the Bundestag Foreign Committee in charge of Eastern co-operation, and a member of the...
View ArticleLatvia’s Euro Entreaty Reveals Euro Shortcomings
Latvia recently made news in its bid to adopt the euro as its currency, seeking to join fellow Baltic state Estonia as part of the common currency. While commendable in many ways, this move to join the...
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