Europe's Return to Power Politics

The old politics as usual seem to be returning in Europe after a sixty-year absence. [more]

Granting membership to Georgia and Ukraine could create a greater problem for NATO than keeping them out of the alliance would. [more]

France will assume the European Union’s rotating presidency July 1. The French agenda is bold and broad, but the only policy areas where real change is likely are immigration and energy. [more]

Now that Ireland has rejected the European Union's latest attempt at a governing treaty, France will take the lead in redefining the bloc, and it will do so by further loosening the union's internal bonds. [more]

An institutional crisis within the European Union over the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty will make it extremely difficult for the enlargement process to continue at its current pace, if at all. [more]

Ireland’s 45,000-member Technical Engineer and Electrical Union criticized the European Union's Treaty of Lisbon on May 5 over concerns about workers’ rights. [more]

All the votes are tabulated in Italy’s April 13-14 snap election, and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s bloc has emerged with a solid majority. (with Stratfor map) [more]

The European Parliament approved a resolution April 10 calling on EU member states to boycott the Olympics' opening ceremony. Things could have been worse for Beijing. [more]

Processes are under way that are shifting French foreign policy. [more]

Further cracks in the Franco-German axis in Europe have risen, compounding the fact that the two European powers want to take the Continent down two very different paths. [more]

Disagreements over a proposed Mediterranean Union reflect France and Germany's growing differences in geopolitical alignment. [more]

France and the United Arab Emirates have allegedly sealed a deal that would place a French naval base in the emirates. [more]

After exactly 60 years of attempting to build a new European structure under the aegis of the European Union, Europe in 2008 will return to an earlier geopolitical arrangement: the Concert of Powers. This is one section of the Annual Forecast 2008. [more]

Slovenia’s EU presidency will be much rougher than anyone expects. [more]

In its 2008 forecast of Europe, Stratfor says that the key players will be Germany, Poland and France, as the Union becomes less of a superstate and reverts to its original role of a concert of... [more]

The Schengen zone of open borders in Europe expands from 15 to 24 countries at midnight Dec. 21. [more]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy believes European Central Bank policies are undermining his vision for France. [more]

A major row is brewing between France and Germany over the future of the European economy. [more]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy shows Gaullism the door. [more]

New French President Nicolas Sarkozy outlined his foreign policy goals Aug. 27. [more]