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January 2012
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The top European official dealing with internet matters spoke out publicly against Congressional draft bills penalizing websites for pirating movies as “bad legislation.” Her statement, via Twitter, reflected what her spokesman said was “concern about peoples’ access to the internet.”
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EA November 2011
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By William Marmon, Managing Editor European Affairs
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The “bad guy” singled out as the most dangerous breed of hacker has changed over the years from  the happy hacker, to the malicious hacker, to the serious cyber-criminals. Now a different villain in the hacking world has emerged at the top of the threat list in Washington and European capitals -- nation-states that are equipping themselves for aggressive cyber-war and industrial espionage and theft of intellectual property.
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EA September 2011
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By Garret Martin, Associate Editor at European Affairs
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As Britain’s political parties open their season of party conferences, leaders are publicly  assessing the impact and implications of the days and nights of rage that set England afire this summer. How worried should they be? And how should the outburst be interpreted across Europe and in the U.S.? Is this a year of coincidences in violence or is it another global upheaval – like 1848 or 1968? – that seeks to upend a world order that outlived its sell-by date?
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July 2011
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By European Affairs
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Last week’s atrocities in Norway were an act of far-right violence on a scale unknown in Western Europe in the post-World War II era, and they have scalded European politics with sudden fear about the possible extreme consequences of anti-Muslim populist rhetoric.
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