For if Angela Merkel were to be honest with the German people, she would be obliged to tell it the following five unpleasant truths that the electorate might prefer not to hear.

The president of the ECB should not believe his own hype: Europe’s economic crisis is far from over.

Shakespeare memorably wrote that when sorrows come, they come not as single spies but as battalions. He could very well have been writing about the current spate of political troubles in Europe’s beleaguered economic periphery.

At this conference, leading business sector, think-tank, and NGO representatives will examine the Indian pharmaceutical issue from the medical, business, and development perspectives.

A very much bolder ECB would seem to be required both to put an end to Europe’s longest post-war economic recession as well as to avert the risk that the European economy succumbs to the perils of deflation.

Can Portugal engineer a meaningful economic recovery while pursuing budget austerity and economic reform within a euro straitjacket that precludes currency devaluation as a means to promote export growth?

Leaving the euro would undoubtedly be a daunting decision for Cyprus that would not be without its risks.

The G8 initiated formal negotiations on a U.S.-EU Free Trade Agreement, but there are reasons to be skeptical about its future. Of greater importance to the United States is the successful conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is attempting an aggressive reform program in order to revitalize the Japanese economy. Can he succeed? We believe he can, but only if he aims his "third arrow" of structural reform at the right target.

Mr. Abe's "Three Arrows" program consists of renewed fiscal stimulus, aggressive monetary easing and significant structural reform. We believe he will succeed—if he aims his "third arrow," structural reform, at Japan's capital allocation and corporate governance practices.