All articles from Sara Miller Llana
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From Greece to Germany, Europeans see government failing on corruption
According to a new report, the eurocrisis has pushed faith in government below the global average.
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Terrorism & Security Japan to China: Stop trying to change the region by force
China blasted Japan's 'white paper' defense report about its maritime activities as 'untruthful.'
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Will US-EU trade talks spur growth - or show globalization's limits?
Negotiations over what would be the world's largest free trade deal begin today in Washington.
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After slapping US, France finds itself in spotlight for spying
Reports says that several EU nations are engaged in surveillance programs similar to PRISM.
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Global News Blog Latin America outraged over Morales' European pat down
The Bolivian leader's flight was diverted to Austria on suspicion that Edward Snowden was aboard.
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Focus Can Europe shoulder its military burden on its own?
As the US turns to Asia, pressure is rising on the EU to police itself, North Africa, and the Mideast.
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Terrorism & Security Has NSA spying put US-EU trade deal on the rocks?
Revelations of broad US surveillance of EU offices, particularly in Germany, have angered Europe.
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Tour de France perseveres through 100 years of wars, doping, and hooliganism (+video)
The century-old cycling race remains popular in France, even after the Lance Armstrong era.
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Global News Blog Parisian etiquette, for shorts-wearing tourists and waiters alike
On tourism and snobbery in the French capital.
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Life is good for Germany's economy. But is it good for Germans? (+video)
While the German economy is being held up as the model for ailing Europe to follow, some Germans say that the benefits of the boom aren't reaching them.
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Global News Blog A year in asylum, Assange digs in for the long haul
The Wikileaks founder says even if the Swedish investigation against him were dropped, he would not leave his 'space station' existence in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
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Global News Blog Will new British surveillance revelations fuel another hacking backlash?
British agency GCHQ's involvement in the NSA's global surveillance have some drawing parallels with the phone-hacking scandal that rocked the British media.
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Could French flicks derail a US-EU free trade pact?
France is worried that without an 'exception culturelle,' the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would allow Hollywood to overwhelm the French movie industry.
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Global News Blog Is a two-track Europe already here?
European leaders have long rejected the idea that the EU is developing into a region of haves and have-nots. But a look at the news today suggests it's happening just the same.
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Hollande says debt crisis is 'over.' But is France really out of the woods?
Experts say that, despite Hollande's comments this past weekend, France could join Southern Europe's economic crisis if it does not introduce urgent reforms.
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Global News Blog French anti-immigrant pol says Edward Snowden should immigrate to France
Marine Le Pen of the National Front is vocally opposed to letting foreigners into France. But she says her country should welcome 'courageous' American whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Global News Blog French lessons, and lessons about the French
An impromptu offer from an officer manager to practice French helped reshape the Monitor bureau chief's initial notions about life in France.
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Global News Blog Looking to lessons learned from past floods as rain drenches central Europe (+video)
Thousands have been evacuated across central Europe as heavy rains and swollen rivers threaten to flood cities and towns. Many are taking preventive steps based on experiences from 2002 floods.
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Will May 2013 go down as France's May 1968, part deux? (+video)
As protests against President Hollande and France's new gay marriage law roil France, some draw parallels with the protests 45 years ago that nearly toppled Charles de Gaulle.
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Focus In Bangladesh factory aftermath, US and European firms take different paths
The deadly collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory has galvanized European firms to try and improve working conditions, but US companies have been slower to respond. Why?
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