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Ambassador Karen Pierce, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations
October 29, 2018
Ambassador Karen Pierce, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations, discussed multilateralism in the UN...
Angela Merkel announcing on Monday that she will step down as CDU leader in December.
October 29, 2018
On Sunday, voters in the German state of Hesse went to the polls and elected a new Landtag. And as happened in the state election in Bavaria two weeks ago, the Christian...
Some of the 700,000 who marched in London Saturday against Brexit and for a “People’s Vote."
October 22, 2018
When British Prime Minister Theresa May informed Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, on March 29, 2017, that the United Kingdom wished to withdraw from the...
Horst Seehofer, the leader of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union and Minister of the Interior in the German government, reacting to the exit polls after Sunday’s election.
October 16, 2018
On Sunday, voters in Bavaria gave an overwhelming vote of no confidence in the Christian Social Union (CSU), which governs the state and, with the Christian Democratic Union...
October 11, 2018
Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, the EU Commissioner for Health & Food Safety, spoke about European memories, his perspective on national and Union politics, and his hopes...
The European Parliament
October 11, 2018
October 11, 2018 The UK is months away from leaving the European Union, with the terms of the exit still unclear. But Yale SOM’s Paul Bracken, an expert in political...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speaking to the European Parliament last Tuesday.
September 17, 2018
The European Union is a union of states—democratic states that adhere to the rule of law. As Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union says, the EU is founded on the values...