The forerunner to the European Union was formed by six countries in 1952 and now has 28 members with a combined population of more than 500 million people. It is set to expand even further, with ...

The European Union (EU) is one of the most significant political and economic unions in modern history, but its formation and growth are often overlooked in the grand narrative of world history. This ...

Today’s Europe is, in effect, returning to such a map. The decades of peace and prosperity, from the 1950s to 2009, when the European Union’s debt crisis began, made the political and economic ...

Like we wrote about last year, Southern Europe is now having significant banking woes that may destabilize Europe’s financial system. The EU is less popular in the region since the 2008 global ...