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Divided Union: Europe, Refugee Crisis, and the Need for Solidarity

Post author By Max Andonov
Post date November 1, 2015
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Photo Credit: Huck Magazine Over half a century ago, Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport was at the center of the Berlin Airlift, a U.S.-led effort to supply the western half of the city when the Soviets tried unsuccessfully to cut it off from West Germany. The airport, now closed and converted into a public park, recently served as […]

Tags Bulgaria, EU, Germany, Immigration Policy, Merkel, Refugee crisis

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Can the Eurozone Be Saved? The World Should Certainly Hope So

Post author By Andy Uhler
Post date November 12, 2013
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The prevailing monetary policy of unremitting austerity throughout Europe, being championed most notably by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was recently put to task by some of the most important minds in international economics at a two-day conference hosted by the LBJ School. LBJ’s own Dr. James Galbraith was instrumental in organizing the conference and bringing […]

Tags A Modest Proposal, Austerity, European Crisis, EuroZone, Inequality and Instability, International Economics, James Galbraith, Merkel, New Deal, Stuart Holland