On May 6, all eyes will be focused on the second round of the French presidential election, which Socialist challenger Francois Hollande is likely to win. Equally important for Europe’s future is the Greek parliamentary election scheduled for the very same day.

The recent election outcomes significantly changed the political leadership of France and Greece - American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Scholars Desmond Lachman and Danielle Pletka are available to comment on their economic and foreign policy implications.

While markets are again correctly obsessing over Italy and Spain’s poor economic growth prospects, as reflected in markedly higher government bond yields for those two countries, they seem to have taken their eye off two upcoming political events that could usher in a new and more serious phase of the...

After five years of wrenching economic recession, one has to wonder what it will take for Greece to cut itself loose from the failed IMF and EU policies that have reduced the country to its present terrible economic pass.

The rescue offers Greece the opportunity for an extended struggle to settle for slow economic growth for an extended period. This debt crisis is not over...

Portugal could avoid Greece's horrible fate if it were to draw the right lessons from the Greek experience.

Greece must seek new solutions to stave off economic disaster and preserve its membership in the eurozone.

Suggesting that an orderly Greek exit from the euro should be manageable because Greece constitutes only 2 per cent of the overall eurozone economy is all too reminiscent of the policy complacency that preceded the Lehman bankruptcy in September 2008.