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Predicably President Trump did not like that and thereafter took to social media to blast her and to berate the service.And so, the competition for changing American minds and hearts after the outcome of the 2024 elections was off to the races.

“How to Be Brave” in the Age of Trump

As Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., put it in Berlin: “I am in the heart-changing business.”

But in April, the Parliament’s legal affairs committee backed a legal opinion rejecting the Commission’s approach. The Parliament’s legal service argued the legal basis was procedurally inappropriate, as the proposal fails to meet the threshold for emergency powers.

Metsola to Commission: Change legal basis for €150bn defence fund or face EU court

Metsola has considered legal action against the Commission for invoking an emergency clause to bypass Parliament oversight.

Also, the transactionalism taking over international relations has infected several EU member states, which is increasing the risk of deadlock and disunity in the bloc at a crucial moment. Hungary is already set to block the renewal of EU sanctions against Russia in June and veto the beginning of membership negotiations with Ukraine. If this veto persists, some member states that support Ukraine may consider blocking any progress on the Western Balkans to put pressure on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

EU enlargement in the age of geopolitics

EU enlargement remains the union’s most potent tool to strengthen unity and stability in Europe. But to succeed in this era of geopolitical standoffs between great powers, enlargement requires greater EU engagement and an innovative, differentiated approach

They even beat Labour, who had just won a record breaking majority in a General Election in 2024, in a by-election to parliament. Analysts pointed to the party’s appeal among working-class Labour voters — a blend of old left-wing economic messaging, such as support for trade unions and reindustrialisation, combined with hard-right stances on immigration and “anti-woke” rhetoric.

The end of Left vs Right: Populism is redrawing Global Politics

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK success in the local elections highlights how identity, nationalism, and culture wars are replacing the traditional political divide

Pope Leo XIV certainly is a polyglot. He is, of course, the first American to be elected pope. Leo XIV is also the first pope to hold dual citizenship and, therefore, he also is the first Peruvian pope in history.Pope Leo XIV lived for over 20 years in Peru. Finally, it has been disclosed in recent days that Leo XIV has Creole roots on his maternal grandparents’ side.

Pope Leo XIV: A True American Globalist

How the election of Pope Leo XIV may spiritually reset the clock on spreading nationalism

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We may well be seeing the smashing of the compact reached in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, at the Mount Washington Hotel back in 1944. Representatives of 44 allied nations met under U.S. and U.K. leadership to establish multilateral economic institutions to ensure that the post-Second World War world would be guided by a true spirit of partnership, cooperation and goodwill.

Analyses

Destroying the U.S.’s last global bridges?

Thursday, May 8, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to the international trading system. Now, he is going to do the same to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and global poverty funding.

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Last elected in 2023, Erdogan cannot run again under the law unless an early election is called and is backed by three-fifths of parliament, for which he would need support beyond his ruling conservative coalition. A CHP public petition calling for Imamoglu’s freedom and early elections has surpassed 13 million signatures, according to Milliyet newspaper. The party did not respond when asked for the latest data.

World

Turkish support firms for jailed mayor Imamoglu vs Erdogan, polls show

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Popular support for Ekrem Imamoglu, the Istanbul mayor whose arrest sparked Turkey’s largest protests in a decade, has risen further above President Tayyip Erdogan since he was detained and jailed in March, opinion polls show

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Whether Europeans are willing and able to compensate for Trump’s scrapping of US support remains to be seen. The EU’s €300bn Global Gateway strategy for 2021-27 aims chiefly at climate and energy projects, with health and education accounting for only 16 per cent. It’s hard to see the EU having either the cash or the political bandwidth to launch a yet more ambitious effort.

Analyses

Trump’s axing of US aid hands the EU a global leadership role

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Donald Trump’s Blitzkrieg of chaos is eclipsing urgent problems that put the future of the planet, and perhaps mankind, at risk

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In this election, Russian influence was amplified by pressure from elements of the Trump-aligned MAGA movement to create a window of opportunity for a radical reversal of the country’s democratic course and strategic orientation. Simion’s success will no doubt embolden them. Russian influence has already become normalized, and has continued more visibly and explicitly after the annulled presidential election last year.

Europe

When disillusion meets interference in Romania

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Far-right candidate George Simion’s lead in Romania’s presidential election reflects public discontent with political elites. To safeguard democracy in Europe, political parties must better represent their voters and engage with them in a fair information environment.

As it turns out, Farage is also a great advocate of European proportional voting systems. Lately, he has even started extolling the benefits of European health insurance schemes to replace Britain’s taxpayer-funded National Health Service. The NHS was set up by Labour in 1948 and is now akin to a state religion for most Brits.

Analyses

A Brexit-Damaged England Now Embraces Continental European Politics

Monday, May 5, 2025

Britain now looks more like most EU member states where four, five or more parties all lay claim to votes and posts in government at the national and local level

France and Germany have a special responsibility to shepherd Europe through the epochal geopolitical crisis at hand. To assert Europe’s geopolitical power, Paris and Berlin must revamp their foreign and defense strategies as well as their economic fundamentals, and cooperate with Nordic, Baltic, and Polish allies.

Europe

France and Germany are staring into the Abyss

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

France and Germany have a special responsibility to shepherd Europe through the epochal geopolitical crisis at hand. To assert Europe’s geopolitical power, Paris and Berlin must revamp their foreign and defense strategies as well as their economic fundamentals, and cooperate with Nordic, Baltic, and Polish allies

Amid rising domestic political and media pressure, India announced several retaliatory measures, including suspending the Indus Waters Treaty. A move Pakistan described as tantamount to a declaration of war. With reports of border skirmishes between the two armies, the risk of further escalation is growing.

Europe

Why the Kashmir crisis between India and Pakistan should alarm the EU

Monday, April 28, 2025

As tensions escalate with border skirmishes between the two nuclear-armed states, Europe could face mounting risks

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As the name implies, MAGA harks back to some mythical past when the United States of America was great. In Trump’s telling, that America was destroyed by evil leaders such as the Clintons, Barack Hussein Obama and Sleepy Joe Biden – all men who allowed Canada, Mexico, China, the European Union and the rest to rob, rape and pillage the United States.

World

Trump and Putin: Reflections on the U.S.-Russian Victimhood Alliance

Friday, April 25, 2025

If Trump’s and Putin’s political success depends on their supporters’ sense of frustration and resentment, why would they want to improve their lot?

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The NHI cloud facilitates the more efficient exchange of medical records, while the adoption of international standards such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources enhances international medical data sharing. Additionally, the incorporation of AI-assisted technologies is advancing the development of smart healthcare. And the introduction of a virtual health insurance card and the My Health Bank app, which enables real-time management of personal health data, empowers people to make health-enabling choices.

World

Advancing health equity and promoting a healthier Taiwan on the 30th anniversary of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance system

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Health is a fundamental human right and a universal value

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Where it has gotten challenging is that while Meloni shares some fundamental values and policy preferences with Trump—like the primacy of national interests, antiwokeism, and a civilizational view of social issues—his view of international relations is fundamentally upending and weakening multilateralism, thus endangering the basis of Italy’s role in the world.

World

Can Meloni save the Transatlantic Alliance?

Thursday, April 24, 2025

After Donald Trump initiated a global trade war, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is leveraging her personal ties with the U.S. president to save the transatlantic alliance.To advance European and Italian interests, Rome should advocate a global order based on shared institutions and norms that maximize benefits for all.

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Priced out of the United States and potentially other traditional markets by defensive safeguard measures, many firms will search for new supply and demand opportunities. Beyond helping with the arduous task of screening for new partners and commercial opportunities, AI will be important in making these new trade flows viable.

World

Navigating global trade: AI solutions for tariff turmoil

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The United States, the world’s largest importer, has put in place its highest tariffs for more than a hundred years

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Brussels dipped its toe in the waters of television 20 years ago when it backed the launch of Euronews, but then failed to sustain its financial help. The channel has since morphed into a loose franchised network owned by a Lisbon-based company said to have close links to Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán. Euronews’ reporting is in fact independent (it is unambiguously pro-Ukrainian), but it isn’t a viable basis for a future EU broadcasting giant.

Europe

Three ways Europe should fill Trump’s geopolitical vacuum

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Geopolitics, like nature, abhors a vacuum so the EU must prepare to fill the spaces the US is vacating

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EU Actually

The political damage is done, Merz needed an unprecedented second vote to become Chancellor

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Friedrich Merz was narrowly confirmed as chancellor of Germany in an unprecedented second vote that came after an embarrassing first round where he failed by 6 votes to win the mandate.

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