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How Poland Became Europe's Most Dynamic Economy - Businessweek
The former communist country stands out as an unlikely island of economic success amid a recovering Europe.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-27/how-poland-became-europes-most-dynamic-economy
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The European Union as a Model for Regional Integration
This essay examines the state of the European Union post-eurozone crisis, and assesses the European Union's prospects as a model for regional integration efforts around the globe.
http://www.cfr.org/world/european-union-model-regional-integration/p22935
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The Ottoman Empire and the History of Greek Debt - The Atlantic
The troubled relationship between modern Greeks and their neighbors to the north and west-sometime admirers, sometime lenders, sometime detractors-helps explain today's crisis.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/07/is-greece-a-part-of-europe/397796/
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The History of the European Union
History of the European Union - The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union between European countries.
http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/governmentandlaw/a/europeanunionhist.htm
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Early Modern Europe - The Religious Reformations, Religion, Science, and Popular Beliefs, Demography, Economy
Historians have reached no consensus over definitions of early modern Europe. Published work on the period roughly spans the years between 1400 and 1800 but chronological boundaries vary by region and discipline.
http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Co-Fa/Early-Modern-Europe.html
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Rebuilding Post War Germany: A Century-Long Project
During World War II, carpet-bombing by Allied forces leveled up to 80 percent of the historic buildings in Germany's main cities in an unprecedented wave of destruction prompted by the no less unprecedented barbarity of the Nazis.
http://berlin-germany.eu/post-war-germany/rebuilding-post-war-germany/
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The Marshall Plan: Rebuilding a War-Torn Continent
The Marshall Plan has long been heralded as the most successful foreign aid program in history. The speech that outlined the ambitious plan was made 60 years ago today.
http://www.dw.com/en/the-marshall-plan-rebuilding-a-war-torn-continent/a-2577108
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Economic Reconstruction in Europe After WWII: Recovery Programs and Their Effect
In this lesson, we explore the measures taken by the United States to aid its European allies in combating the severe economic depression in Europe immediately after World War II.
http://study.com/academy/lesson/economic-reconstruction-in-europe-after-wwii-recovery-programs-their-effect.html
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East Central Europe in the Modern World: The Politics of the Borderlands from Pre- to Postcommunism
Combining engaging narrative with analytic power, this book presents the past and present of East Central Europe in the larger context of the political and economic history of the Continent.
http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=372
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Modern History - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Modern history, also referred to as the modern period or the modern era, is the historiographical approach to the time frame after the post-classical era. Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period, beginning with the Renaissance, and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history
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Early Modern Europe - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Early modern Europe is the period in the history of Europe which spanned the centuries between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_Europe