NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION Alliance Mending For more than 50 years, the Transatlantic alliance has arguably been the most powerful force […]

NEED TO KNOW UNITED KINGDOM Now What? British Prime Minister­ Boris Johnson was a key leader in the campaign for Britain to […]

NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA A Special Kind of War Much ado has been made of the alleged Russian hacking of US government […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD The Virus That ‘Stole’ Christmas In Germany, it’s allowed to celebrate Christmas with four people outside of one’s […]

NEED TO KNOW SCOTLAND No Girl Left Behind Scotland is tackling women’s rights in a new way – aiming to make sure […]

NEED TO KNOW DENMARK The Mink Saga Mink are cute, curious and valuable mammals, making them a perfect, if unfortunate, victim for […]

NEED TO KNOW ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN Peace and Disquiet Families in Armenia and Azerbaijan are turning to Facebook to find missing-in-action soldiers after the […]

NEED TO KNOW ROMANIA Fire and Rage After a fire in a Bucharest nightclub claimed 27 lives and resulted in 200 injuries, […]

NEED TO KNOW SWITZERLAND The Politics of Granularity A few months ago, Swiss voters rejected a referendum on restricting free movement with […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD The Great Race Historians might rank the international competition to develop and disseminate a coronavirus vaccine alongside efforts […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Tech Terms The European Union recently brought antitrust charges against American tech giant Amazon. As the New York […]

NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION Decline and Fall Cafes in Europe have been rolling up their awnings. Theaters have canceled most performances. […]

NEED TO KNOW POLAND Enough! Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Warsaw and other cities over the […]

NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION Round Two Ireland recently became the first European country to reimpose a hard lockdown in the face […]

NEED TO KNOW MOLDOVA Influencers The director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, recently accused the US of plotting a so-called […]

NEED TO KNOW LITHUANIA Swipe Left Lithuania’s economy has outperformed most of the European Union in spite of lockdowns to control the […]

NEED TO KNOW FRANCE Laws of God and Man An 18-year-old born in Pakistan recently attacked two people in Paris with a […]

NEED TO KNOW LITHUANIA Newton’s Mantle The US recently sent troops to Lithuania to counterbalance security threats that could arise from social […]

NEED TO KNOW CYPRUS The Shadow of the Ottomans Turkish Cypriots recently watched the first-ever debate between their presidential candidates. One of […]

NEED TO KNOW CZECH REPUBLIC East and West in the East and West The president of the Czech senate kicked a hornet’s […]

NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION Down and Out in Paris, Milan and Prague In the 1920s, American writers like Gertrude Stein and […]

NEED TO KNOW SWITZERLAND Now Comes Swixit The Swiss go to the polls on Sept. 27 to decide five referendums that illustrate […]

NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA Soldiers of Misfortune Russian jets recently ran sorties over Libya in support of a rebel commander and mercenaries […]

NEED TO KNOW GERMANY Lingering Bits of Glass A German court recently convicted a 93-year-old former SS guard of Nazi war crimes. […]