Politically, Europe is a continent of nation-states. ... This map highlights how Europe’s boundaries shifted as a result of the war (see 39 more World War I maps here).

Today’s Europe is, in effect, returning to such a map. The decades of peace and prosperity, from the 1950s to 2009, when the European Union’s debt crisis began, made the political and economic ...

DRESDEN, Germany — Europe has long secretly admired Silicon Valley. So when a local European politician wants to emphasize how innovative his region really is, it is common to somehow relate it ...