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Stephen Hill Linkography: EU On Top

There's No Place Like Europe: Steven Hill on Medical House Calls, Multiparty Politics, and Other American Fantasies

Interview: Monday 18 October 2010 - by Alissa Bohling for Truthout. While Europe is far from immune to the economic decline and resource scarcity it faces along with the rest of the world, Hill maintains that the continent still leads the globe in building political infrastructures that foster a shared and sustainable prosperity. He heaps plenty of praise on the EU, but he also acknowledges that the world's largest economy knows it still has work to do.

Europe’s Promise – A Cover Interview
Book review: Posted 31 March 2010 - Rorotoko.

Hill's book provides a number of interesting facts on Europe's economic strengths
and dismisses many myths Americans tend have about Europe. First, Europe produces nearly a third of the world’s economy, that's almost as large as the U.S. and China combined. Second, Europe has more Fortune 500 companies than the U.S. and China together. Third, small businesses account for two thirds of the jobs created in Europe. Fourth, Europe is the largest trading partner with both the America and China. And last, Europe's annual growth rate was higher than the U.S. from 1998-2008.

Europe vs the US: Seven Reflections
Article: 26 January 2010 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. The EU has produced a ‘Eurosphere’ with some 2 billion people - one third of the world - linked by trade, aid and investment to the EU. So, if Europe isn’t the leader of the world now, who is? China? India? It will be decades - if ever - before these developing countries will achieve Europe or America’s prosperity level. In a make-or-break century beset by a worldwide economic crisis, global warming and geopolitical tensions, the European model has the potential to carry the world forward.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Europe's Way

Closing the ‘Democracy Deficit’ in the EU and US
Article: 17 June 2010 - Social Europe Journal. In Switzerland, the political leaders have crafted an impressive practice that fosters a "noisy collaboration" between the people and their elected representatives. They have a "proposal-counterproposal" system in which, once an initiative or referendum qualifies for the ballot, the government is given a chance to either pass that law itself or put a counterproposal on the ballot.

Myth 5: Europe is a Socialist Nest of Government Interference and Intervention.
Posted 14 March 2010 - Washington Policy Watch . Europe is completely capitalist, not socialist, with more Fortune 500 companies and more small businesses than in the U.S. But Europe has figured out how to harness capitalism’s tremendous wealth-creating capacity so that its prosperity is broadly shared.

Inspiration Across the Pond
Article: 29 March 2010 - E’Sharp. Europe ploughs its money into its people rather than into excessive corporate profits, CEO bonuses or a bloated military. In the US, about the only people who enjoy the full range of European-level supports are those who work for wealthy corporations or the president and members of Congress. What is good for US political and economic elites apparently is not enjoyed by their fellow Americans. The drawbridge has been pulled up.

There's No Place Like Europe: Steven Hill on Medical House Calls, Multiparty Politics, and Other American Fantasies

Interview: Monday 18 October 2010 - by Alissa Bohling for Truthout.
During this lengthy interview Hill touched on the kind of support Europeans have that Americans don't have. He gave this example: "An American friend of mine living in France got a hornet sting when I was visiting her. She calls up her doctor and, 20 minutes later, there's the French doctor with his little black bag. What does that feel like to a person, to know that you have that kind of access to the support that you need?"

The World Cup of Global Competition
Article: July 1998 - Hartford Web Publishing: World History Archives. Steven Hill was in Paris, during the 1998 World Cup of soccer hosted in France. Watching Europeans of numerous nationalities patriotically cheering their home teams, he reflected on the remaining barriers to the European Union. Some Europeans are looking westward toward the American model, marked by low unemployment of 4-5%, market and labor flexibility, low deficits and increased worker productivity. However, important distinctions should be noted.

Ancient Transportations: Walking and Bicycling
to Health
Blog: How's Europe Doing – posted 28 Oct 2010 - The Washington Monthly.

Europeans seem to be literally biking and walking their way to health, and research bears this out. One study found that whereas walking and cycling account for less than a tenth of all urban trips in American cities, they account for a third of all such trips in Germany and an incredible half in the Netherlands. This activity not only provides the Dutch and German elderly with valuable physical exercise, but it also assures them a level of mobility and independence that greatly enhances their quality of life.

Time for a Tex-Mex Marshall Plan
Article: 23 April 2006 – Washington Post. The bold yet carefully planned E.U. approach to worker migration suggests the direction that policy between the United States and Mexico should take. The EU gave its new poorer states massive subsidies -- billions of dollars' worth -- to help construct schools, roads, telecommunications and housing, thus making these nations more attractive for business investment. The idea was to raise up the emerging economies rather than let the advanced economies be dragged down.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: New Europe

The European Way for America?
Panel discussion topic - Europe's Promise: 20 May 2010 - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Panelists: Steven Hill, Kimberly Morgan, George Washington University; Mitchell Orenstein, Johns Hopkins University. Hill argues that Europe is uniquely well-suited to meet the challenges of the 21st century and that America has some catching up to do. In the discussion that ensued the panelists point out the book offers a rich trove of best practices in Europe, however, it would be a mistake to look for a single European way to compare with the US as both systems have something to learn from each other.

Europe’s Case of ‘Chief Executive Envy’

Article: March 19, 2010 – Social Europe Journal. The Lisbon Treaty went into effect late in 2009 and created a president for the European Council and a high representative for foreign affairs and security. That treaty and those two new offices were supposed to launch a new Europe that would cease ‘punching below its weight’, and finally provide an answer to Henry Kissinger’s bedeviling question: ‘Who do I call if I want to call Europe?

Troy Schneider Interviews Steven Hill
Video: Interview held 20 January 2010 - on Europe's Promise, at the New America Foundation, host Troy Schneider. A lively interview where Hill discusses European approaches to the economy, global warming,

politics, social democracy and other topics covered in his book. He describes the European Union as the 'new kid on the block' and goes on to explain how Europe's robust new standard for developing a modern society is taking care of its people in an environmentally sustainable way.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: EU United

Europe and its Revolution - Part 1

Posted in Italian: 30 November 2010 - By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 1/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (trad.). (use Google Translate). There is no doubt that Europe can sometimes appear in disarray reeling from one apparent crisis to another. It is facing challenges that seem impossible… Yet in the end, it always gets the job done as is characteristic in a united Europe for the last 60 years.

Europe and its Revolution - Part 2
Posted in Italian: 13 December 2010 - Europe and its revolution By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 2/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (trad.) .

The Greek Aftershock - Will it Make or Break Europe?
Article: 19 February 2010 – Social Europe Journal. The Germans and French are about to get a real shock of what ‘union’ means. They didn’t realize that the euro came with a hidden obligation for them to bail out the Greeks and perhaps others during tougher economic times. So far they have agreed to stand behind Greece in return for new restrictions on government spending, but this crisis is going to test their union.

Steven Hill re Europe’s Promise: Q&A
Interview aired: 30 May 2010 - A Terrence McNally Podcast. <

The European Union, 27 member nations with a half billion people, has become the largest, wealthiest trading bloc in the world. Americans are hearing a lot about the trouble Europe is in. The debt crisis in Greece, and perhaps Spain, Portugal, and Italy, is threatening the Euro and the European Union. What's really going on? How did it happen? How bad is it? How will they deal with it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world and for the US in particular? These are the questions Hill takes on during this lengthy Q&A interview.

Despite the Crisis, Europe Is the Model for the World
Interview in Czech: 23 February 2011 - Lidove Noviny. Czech title : Evropa je i přes krizi pro svět vzorem – 23 února 2011, Lidove Noviny.(use Google Translate) In this exclusive Q&A interview with the prominent Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny, Hill is questioned primarily about his book, the economic policies of the EU, the Euro crisis, prospects for the future of an integrated Europe and more.

Media ‘Speculators’ Miss History Being Made
In Europe
Article: 19 October 2010 - Social Europe Journal. While the debt crisis has

been messy and noisy, it also has provided a badly needed wake-up call to Europe about a flaw at the heart of its union: namely, while it had a monetary union it lacked a fiscal union. At some point, this flaw had to be dealt with and the Greek situation provided that opportunity. That in turn has resulted in reforms providing sensible financial backstops, regulation and transparency.

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