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Wednesday 19/December/2018 14:56 PM

The eurozone’s solidarity fallacy

Since 2010, many measures have been adopted to “crisis-proof” the eurozone. In addition to tighter budgetary rules and the start of a banking union, new...

Tuesday 18/December/2018 14:55 PM

China’s South China Sea grab

It has been just five years since China initiated its major land reclamation in the South China Sea, and the country has already shifted the territorial...

Tuesday 18/December/2018 14:53 PM

Hacking the STEM syllabus

After a prolonged honeymoon for the digital economy, the dark side of the Internet, social media, and “Big Tech” has become increasingly apparent in...

Tuesday 18/December/2018 14:50 PM

A reprieve for global governance

The last-minute deal struck at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, offers a glimmer of hope for the future not just of...

Tuesday 18/December/2018 14:48 PM

The continuing agony of Brexit

So British Prime Minister Theresa May lives to fight another day. The Conservative Party in the House of Commons reaffirmed its confidence in her leadership...

Monday 17/December/2018 15:04 PM

A climate-friendly financial system

The climate conference in Katowice, Poland, has been billed as the most consequential since the 2015 summit, which produced the Paris climate agreement....

Monday 17/December/2018 15:02 PM

Europe in disarray

It was not all that long ago – just a few years, as hard as that it is to believe – that Europe appeared to be the part of the world most closely...

Monday 17/December/2018 15:00 PM

Germany is still playing defense

An old joke among non-Americans is that they, too, deserve a vote in US presidential elections, given how central that office is to their lives. When...

Monday 17/December/2018 14:46 PM

Trump’s anti-service economy

In the nineteenth century, more than 70 per cent of American workers were farmers. By 2017, that figure was under 2 per cent. In 1970, about 32 per cent of...