Europe - Still between the Superpowers

GMOs still rankle in Europe

World leaders meeting at the G8 summit in St Petersburg last month had hoped for at least one outcome: a boost to the flagging world trade negotiations in the current round that have been struggling since their initiation in Doha in 2001. Agreement must be reached this month if progress is to be made in this round. Issues are many and various, but in Europe one battle between EU member states a...

Taenia solium in Europe: Still endemic?

The pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, causes an important economic and health burden, mainly in rural or marginalized communities of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin-America. Although improved pig rearing conditions seem to have eliminated the parasite in most Western European countries, little is known about the true endemicity status of T. solium throughout Europe. Three recent reviews indicat...

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Eastern Europe: still on the increase?

T he recently published World Health Organization (WHO) 2011 Global Report [1] provides important new information on the status of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic and better estimates are now available on different indicators of TB control. These were possible thanks to new methodologies used to measure the disease, producing more precise figures on mortality, number of children orphaned by TB, ...

Geopolitical Factors of Conflict between the Superpowers during Post-Cold War Era

Aims & Backgrounds: The US and the Soviet Union led the east and the west camps during the cold war and the geopolitical order was laid on the foundation of the rivalries between these two superpowers. But, after the collapse of the bipolar system, the US became the undisputed power in the international arena and the geopolitical order underwent changes during three decades after that and the c...

Why NATO is Still Best: Future Security Arrangements for Europe