by Jeffrey Lloyd | Jun 10, 2014 | Monitor
MIT at Center of Political Power Play Tracy Jan / The New York Times The school’s prized fusion reactor was dead; its federal funding axed. Then its political allies went to work. Iraq Militants Control Second City of Mosul BBC Iraq’s prime minister has asked...
by Dan Day | Jun 5, 2014 | Monitor
For decades, the European Union has been the gold standard among transnational organizations, gradually linking sovereign nations together through the free movement of labor and the formation of a currency union. For a European, passing from Germany to France isn’t...
by Dan Day | May 28, 2014 | Monitor
American Security Project hosted Paul Adamson, Phillipe Maze-Sencier, and Geoffrey Harris for a discussion centering on the political, social, and economic implications of last weekend’s European Parliamentary elections. Victories for extremist parties across Europe...
by Dan Day | May 27, 2014 | Monitor
European Union leaders will meet tonight in Brussels to discuss last weekend’s Parliamentary election results in which voters decidedly voiced their discontent with the status quo. Extremist parties on both the right and left boasted strong results in the UK, France,...
by Dan Day | May 22, 2014 | Monitor
Elections for the European Parliament kicked off Thursday in the Netherlands and the UK and will continue through Sunday as all 28 European Union member states give voters the chance to shape the only directly elected body within the EU. While low turnout figures and...