When Europe's leaders gathered for a pre-summit dinner 10 days later, Mr. Trichet was still angry.
There was a time when Europe was the main arena of global military and commercial competition.
Clarke wants the system left unchanged when Europe decide on their qualifying criteria in the new year.
When Europe's new currency was launched in January 1999, virtually everybody predicted that it would rise against the dollar.
With Japan closed for a public holiday, yen trading was quiet until later in the day when Europe came online.
Just at the moment when Europe's leaders are demanding severe austerity cuts from Greece comes a moment of huge insensitivity.
And yet, these cars paint a remarkable picture of a time when Europe was desperately lacking in everything but talent.
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How could it, at a time when Europe's scattered and stateless Jews depended on religion to sustain their sense of peoplehood?
At a time when Europe has been in deep crisis, Ghana's economy galloped at a dizzying 14.5% rate of growth in 2011.
The Golden Age for the centre left in the European Parliament was the 1990s when Europe had double digit unemployment and a nasty recession.
Simon also has positioned itself to benefit when Europe's economy recovers.
As the chart shows, central banks had already been moving away from dollars and towards euros to some extent even when Europe's single currency was falling.
Clarke plans to take the rest of this year off before returning to competitive golf when Europe take on Asia at the Royal Trophy in Bangkok in January.
It's possible to trace that cultural divide to post-World War II, said Williams, when Europe underwent its financial recovery in the 1950s and its culture was more communal.
Let's see what happens when Europe finally relaxes monetary policy.
When Europe's new digital-television channels want to offer potential audiences something to make it worth buying a new and expensive set, they turn first to sport, but then to Hollywood.
He relates, at length, the story of the Little Ice Age, the five-hundred-year period, in the early modern age, when Europe was colder than it has been since or was before.
Eight of that team were part of the victory at Celtic Manor in Wales two years ago, when Europe won by just one point after a dramatic fightback by the United States.
While weaker economies fear losing their best and brightest workers, wealthier countries worry about a potential influx of job seekers in a time when Europe is still in the throes of a recession.
Even for a believer in Europe, a stage should come when indifference is the right attitude, when Europe can be left to get on with its business while nations get on with theirs.
Instead of the entitlement reform that you call for, a significant wing of the Democrat Party wants massive revenue increases to raise entitlements to European levels at the very time when Europe is discovering it cannot afford its own welfare state.
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When Europe adopts the Euro 6 standard in 2012, the emissions rules of all the developed markets will at last have converged, giving global manufacturers a return on years of expensive development and ending the need for a multiplicity of engine platforms.
Since then Colin Montgomerie has been widely tipped to repeat his 2010 role, when Europe won at Celtic Manor, and the eight-time European Tour money list winner confirmed last week that he would be interested in the leading the team in his home country.
Germany has been against this simple but certain path from the start but it seems about to open the gates to this hard road at the end of the month, when Europe must state its solution to the imminent unraveling of the EU financial system or perish.
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Why have Latin American governments become ready to privatise health care, when in Europe (and Canada) governments have been decidedly less bold?
The eurozone is supposed to agree all this in time for the EU summit next weekend, when all Europe's leaders will be there.
When Western Europe's new single currency, the euro, comes into use starting in 1999, the systems of all three exchanges will handle one set of contracts on euro interest rates and stock indices.
When bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, when an Iron Curtain fell over Europe, when the threat of nuclear war loomed just 90 miles from this city, when a brilliant September morning was darkened by terror -- in none of those instances did we falter.
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