Mexico is not yet a failed state; parts of the country remain reasonably safe, but the mayhem is spreading, and the influence of drug money within all three major political parties is now taken for granted.
The Karlsruhe Court has taken into account the position of the Bundesbank, which suffered the birth of the European monetary unification, and has become the very source of inspiration for every Euroscepticism.
The empirical non-falsifiability of structural reform policies underpins the consensus between the national and supranational levels. It enables all of the actors to sell a policy that no one understands or can even refute.
There is an authoritarian trend in Europe. The neoliberal inspired market deregulation has been the destroyer of freedom, as it is shown by the weakening of the power of trade unions and other popular organizations.
Given the evolution of new oil routes and the exit strategy from the various fronts of the war, the United States has significantly reduced its involvement in the Middle East; yet Europe continues to lack of any consistent approach to the new Arabic scenario.
The Summers's "secular stagnation" is an intriguing argument; yet it is sure that the austerity policy, based on the German housewife's theory, is only bound to worsening the current Eurozone's crisis.
One of the highlights of Hungary's EU presidency was the launching of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies. But a closer look at the situation of the Hungarian Roma provides an alarming picture.
