By Will McChesney

You don’t have to have a triple-digit IQ to realize that the next few weeks will be crucial for the future of Europe.

The continued failure of Europe’s leaders to restore short-term faith to its markets has led to infighting and harsh strain on less-powerful, peripheral states. Without any long-term plan, individual nations have continued to bicker about exactly where relief should come from. Governments of prosperous states such as Germany, Finland and the Netherlands argue that their taxpayers should not bear the weight of failing markets in Ireland …

Recent changes in the European space landscape will affect the nature of traditional European-U.S. space relations.