The EU will allow Italy’s new prime minister a bit of room for maneuver—but not much. Italians must use that space to bring back the virtues of an earlier time.

Now, more than ever, Europe needs to create and support a unified strategic foreign policy if it wants to retain and strengthen its global influence.

The Great Recession and European debt crisis have had a profound impact on Europe’s macroeconomy and its public sector.

Expectations are running high for major changes in the next U.S. administration's foreign policy, but how much change is likely, and will it be enough to close the gap between America and the world? Top experts from the Carnegie Endowment and elsewhere discussed this question during a two-day conference in Brussels.