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This past week saw French Presidential centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron match the predictions of the final polls in the presidential election to win the vote as the next president of the Fifth Republic of France. He inherits a nation bitterly…

This past week saw the now-imminent French Presidential election campaign reach a fever pitch as independent candidate Emmanuel Macron battles it out against far-right nationalist and anti-EU leader Marine Le Pen for the future of both France and the European…

This past week saw momentous events unfold (especially across Europe) as the focus shifted away from the unsettling potential crisis in the Korean Peninsula. French voters went to the polls for their first of two rounds in the Presidential Election…

This past week saw troubling new geopolitical developments on several fronts. In the escalating war of words between the United States and North Korea, the North Koreans pledged that they are ready for either a nuclear or full-scale conventional war…

This past week, the world changed dramatically geopolitically. The highlight of the week had been anticipated to be the much-scrutinized U.S.- China Summit set for the end of the week. This meeting did go off smoothly and led to an…

This past week saw old geopolitical tensions and problems rise again. Great Britain triggered its Article 50 clause of the Lisbon Treaty to begin a two year withdrawal from 45 years of membership in the European Union. Within only a…

This past week saw several critical issues come to a head in Britain and Europe. As Theresa May took one step after another towards the impending Brexit invocation of Article 50 set for this coming week, the EU leaders huddled…

This past week, the international meeting of the minds known as the G20 took place at about the same time as U.S. President Donald Trump met with EU ironwoman Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. Those who were looking for major breakthroughs…

Even as British Prime Minister Theresa May continues to wrestle with the challenges involved in invoking Article 50 to begin the two year Brexit divorce proceedings from the European Union, she is facing other mounting problems. This past week saw…

President Trump proved this past week that he can be reasonable with long standing traditional allies of the United States by his warm and successful meetings with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe both in the capital Washington and on his Palm…

A new transatlantic rivalry replaced the traditional cross ocean alliance this past week as the still-new American President Donald Trump accused the European Union and especially Germany of manipulating their currency to keep it artificially depressed against the U.S. dollar.…