Cities need a stronger voice in climate change talks

Marcelo Ebrard, 06.04.2010

Negotiators are meeting this week in Bonn, Germany, in an effort to secure a binding agreement on global climate change. However, months after the ta...

The Top Five (Or So) Games of the World Cup

Oliver Haydock, 06.04.2010

The World Cup can be a little bit much for the average Amerian soccer fan. Best then to leave the television off, because the good people at ESPN are broadcasting all 64 World Cup games.

World Cup Frenemies

Oliver Haydock, 05.27.2010

If the 2006 battle between Rooney and Ronaldo proved anything, it's that friendships build back up as quickly as they fall apart.

Germany Overtakes Congress

Diane Francis, 05.26.2010

Editor at Large, the National Post

Germany has become as the world's financial reformer, emerging out from under its politely subordinate role in Europe with stern measures to curb bad behavior by banks and nation-states.

Building Up China's Brand

Gary Shapiro, 05.27.2010

President & CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association

Chinese companies have a shot at being world class brands if they invest in quality, play by the rules and invest in marketing and in the countries where they want their brands to gain market share.

Dear German Chancellor Angela Merkel

David Harris, 05.24.2010

Executive Director, AJC, and Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University

AJC made its own investment in the new Germany. It turns out to have been among the wisest investments we ever could have made. Thank you for helping justify our confidence in the Germany that you today so ably lead.

Spain Banishes Human Rights Judge Baltasar Garzón

Barbara Probst Solomon, 05.20.2010

International correspondent for El Pais.

The bizarre exile of Judge Garzon suddenly places the country, which has been exemplary in its emergence from its forty-year dictatorship, on the wrong side of history.

Greece's Pieces

Jose Ferreira, 05.20.2010

Knewton Founder and CEO

Jose Ferreira is the Founder and CEO of Knewton When the EU formed in 1998, I was the crazy guy in the corner of the pub ranting to all my friends th...

EuroMess

Diane Francis, 05.19.2010

Editor at Large, the National Post

Germany's first-quarter results were so terrible they put the country in a grumpy mood. And it has been that grumpiness that has spooked markets more than anything.

Big Powers Agree on Iran Sanctions; Brush Aside Deal With Brazil and Turkey

Evelyn Leopold, 05.19.2010

Veteran reporter at the United Nations

The big powers struck back at Turkey and Brazil's uranium swap deal with Iran by putting their draft sanctions resolution on the table, in effect telling the two nations they were not going to run the show.

German WiFi Police

Shelly Palmer, 05.18.2010

President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY

Just after Google admitted to gathering data from unsecured wireless networks, the German government is working to make it illegal to have a non-secure wireless network in your home.

Multipolarism sans the EU Pole? The Geopolitics of Europe's Economic Mess

Leon T. Hadar, 05.14.2010

Journalist and foreign affairs analyst

The economic problems affecting the EU -- sovereign debt; the decline of the euro; financial contagion -- go beyond, well, economics, and could have a major impact on global politics, including on U.S. foreign policy

Sarkozy Adviser Minc Triggers French Death Panel Debate

Eric Ehrmann, 05.14.2010

Writes on sports and global issues from Brazil. He is a member of PEN.

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood opened the Golden Lion awards at Cannes. But this year's golden coffin will go to Alain Minc, the spin doctor who advises French president Nicholas Sarkozy.

Why it Is Not Smart to Short the Euro

Georges Ugeux, 05.14.2010

Chairman and CEO, Galileo Global Advisors

It took three years to execute the colossal task of changing currencies into Euros. The Euro is essential, and the current decision reinforces the European common currency.

No More Ouzo

Jeff Danziger, 05.12.2010

Political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide

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Iran Crisis Needs a Firm Response

Ali Safavi, 05.12.2010

Member of Iran's Parliament in Exile; President of Near East Policy Research

In his 35-minute speech, the firebrand president of the Iranian regime defied logic and overstepped all bounds of deceit. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the US to join a "humane movement" to abolish all nuclear weapons.

Does Anyone Need US Nukes in Europe? (Updated)

Evelyn Leopold, 05.11.2010

Veteran reporter at the United Nations

Germany, other Europeans and scientific groups are taking advantage of the nuclear non-proliferation conference to tell the US its estimated 200 tactical nuclear weapons on the continent are no longer needed.

Spain Is Not Close to Bankruptcy: Amalgamation Should Not Mean Contagion

Georges Ugeux, 05.07.2010

Chairman and CEO, Galileo Global Advisors

I happened to be in Madrid last week on the day Spain was downgraded. It was portrayed by the media as a catastrophic situation. Now is not the time for over dramatization.

Europe's Reckoning

Neil K. Shenai, 05.07.2010

Student of Political Economy

Tough as it may be to accept, we are all Greeks now. Better to come to terms with this uncomfortable truth than to live in a state of denial.

Glenn Beck, Immigration, and Social Justice

Jim Wallis, 05.06.2010

Christian leader for social change

Beck promised on his radio show that "the hammer" would be coming down on me, and that he would devote a week of his TV show to bringing me down. I took that as a "no" to dialogue, but I've decided to go ahead without him.

1932: The Unexpected Second Shock

DK Matai, 05.08.2010

Chairman: mi2g, ATCA, The Philanthropia

They will say that nobody saw it coming. Who could have predicted it? But it is worth noting that the 1932 stock market crash is deemed to be the worst in the 20th century, and not the one in 1929.