The ongoing tragedy in the Mediterranean is, without any doubt, the European moral scandal of our times. It is the one issue that in the future will prompt questions about where we were and what we did to stop the thousands of people trying to cross the sea to come to our continent from dying. […]
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Next week, China will reveal the official list of ‘founding members’ of its new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The US strongly opposes this new China-led multilateral institution, arguing that it will compete and overlap with existing institutions such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) or the World Bank (which are largely dominated by the […]
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First, some good European news. This is the first time, in maybe some five hundred years, that we are not starting off a new century with a war of all against all in the continent. It’s now March 2015. Let’s go back one century at a time. One hundred years ago, we were of course […]
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