“Europe” on The Daily Caller

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. and Europe are trying to stop Iran, the world’s third-biggest oil exporter, from selling crude. Iran’s response is to threaten to disrupt shipments from the entire Middle East. (more)

With rumors swirling around Washington about the possibility of the U.S. bailing out Europe, despite our own debt troubles, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum addressed the issue in an interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas. (more)

The world risks sliding into a 1930s-style slump unless countries settle their differences and work together to tackle Europe’s deepening debt crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund has warned. (more)

American CEOs’ projections for the next six months of economic growth have been largely consistent since last quarter, tempered by concerns over the European debt crisis and uncertain economic policies in the States, according to Business Roundtable’s Q4 Economic Outlook survey, even as Congress has failed to trim the federal budget deficit. (more)

Stocks closed sharply lower Monday after doubt emerged that last week’s historic agreement to bind the budgets of European countries more closely together will solve the region’s financial crisis. (more)

Tuesday night’s CNN debate offered Republican presidential contenders the opportunity to prove they are ready to navigate the murky waters of international affairs. The primary season’s twelfth debate focused entirely on national security and quickly set a tone that was in stark contrast to the “rah-rah” atmosphere of the previous debates. The crowd of Washington insiders and think tank employees offered a much more subdued response to the candidates than the primary voters who have been filling the debate halls to this point. But boisterous crowd reactions were not the only things missing from Tuesday night’s debate. There were also some notable geographic and political voids in the debate’s content: (more)

The United States said Tuesday it would no longer provide data to Russia on conventional weapons and troops in Europe, citing non-compliance by Moscow with a two-decade old treaty that governed the information exchange. (more)

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said during CNBC’s Republican presidential debate that he would not bail out Italy’s struggling economy even if that nation’s debt problems threatened to sink the entire European financial system. (more)

The mass immigration of Muslims into Western Europe over the last four decades or so was a project of elite mainstream politicians, most of them left-wing, who never consulted the electorate on whether they thought this project was a good idea or not. Motivated by a multicultural sensibility (and, in most cases, an invincible ignorance about Islam), these politicians felt compelled not to try to integrate these newcomers, but encouraged them, rather, to preserve their cultural values, however at odds they might be with Western ideas of freedom and equality. For many years there was little organized public resistance to the increasing Islamization of Europe. But then, around a decade ago, things reached a breaking point. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says the global financial system faces more challenges than at any point since the 2008 financial crisis. (more)

It’s been described as one of the most telegraphed downgrades in sovereign debt rating history, but did Standard & Poor’s have some sort of ulterior motive when it moved the U.S. debt from AAA to AA+? (more)

Federal health officials said during a Tuesday webinar that some Americans traveling abroad in Europe are being exposed to outbreaks of the measles and reentering the United States infected with the virus. (more)

Chances are you went to sleep yesterday without having celebrated Bastille Day. Even more probably, you did not expect to read today that the most important country on the planet is France. For most Americans, Europe is passé and the French are cliché — the epitome of all the old-world weakness, self-indulgence and irrelevance that the U.S. compares itself so favorably against. (more)

Talks about how to get private investors to contribute toward a new bailout for Greece widened Monday to include a possible buyback of Greek government bonds — but people at a meeting in Rome discussing the issue said there were no guarantees the ideas wouldn’t lead to a default by the heavily indebted nation. (more)

While fears stirred by Greece’s deepening debt crisis raced Wednesday through global financial markets, a quick check of U.S. banks showed they risk losses on tens of billions of dollars should the Mediterranean nation default on its payments. (more)

The rapidly developing European E. coli outbreak that has killed 18 people and sickened thousands, including four suspected cases in the United States, has become the deadliest outbreak of E. coli in modern history. (more)

The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” aimed at enforcing “a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers” by 2050. (more)

On Wednesday, two U.S. soldiers were shot  at the Frankfurt airport in Germany. The suspect, 21-year-old Kosovar Arif Uka, was detained and German authorities have suggested the shooting was motivated by Islamic extremism. (more)

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — International pressure on Moammar Gadhafi to end a crackdown on opponents escalated Monday as his loyalists fought rebels holding the two cities closest to the capital and his warplanes bombed an ammunition depot in the east. The U.S. moved naval and air forces closer to Libya and said all options were open, including patrols of the North African nation’s skies to protect its citizens from their ruler. (more)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president said Wednesday he is certain the wave of unrest in the Middle East will spread to Europe and North America, bringing an end to governments he accused of oppressing and humiliating people. (more)