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Throughout my life, I have seen the power of education. I have witnessed how quality education for all can support the creation of dynamic economies and...

Today, debates about public issues play out on social media, people receive their news via digital platforms, and politicians pitch their policies using...

One of the great claims made for the euro was that it would rival the US dollar as a second global reserve currency. These hopes have failed to materialize....

Late last month, 56 years after French President Charles de Gaulle and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed the Élysée Treaty, the current leaders of...

When I participated in the Chatham House/Daiwa Research Institute conference on the post-Brexit Japan-UK relationship in Tokyo last month, it was my first...

When the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in 1963, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the bloc’s first president, issued a clarion call:...

Invited by Google Europe to attend a brainstorming session in Paris on the decline of truth, the rise of fake news, and ways to counter both, I began my...

A decade on from the 2008 global financial crisis, policymakers constantly assure us that the system is much safer today. The giant banks at the core of the...

Should the United Kingdom go through with its withdrawal from the European Union, one of the most severe unintended consequences will probably be the exodus...

Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they don’t, the European Union will go the way of...