Digital tools can protect consumers from inflation
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 25, 2021
A visit to the grocery store confirms an economic phenomenon that is on the minds of households across the US and just about every investor in the world: inflation is back after a long hiatus
Transatlantic Relations After the Afghanistan Debacle
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Reflections on the need to guard against the false prophets of making hay out of the current situation by effectively doing China’s bidding inside Europe, especially inside Germany
86 million people are now exposed to floods – how can satellite data help?
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 24, 2021
The proportion of the population exposed to floods has grown by 24% globally since the turn of the century, find researchers
What Afghanistan Should Mean for Europe
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 24, 2021
The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban lays bare Europe’s lack of strategic foresight and dangerous dependence on the United States. The EU must address its shortcomings or risk losing the ability to defend its values and interests
Borrell: EU should prepare for the next crises – Iraq, Sahel
By: EBR | Monday, August 23, 2021
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the chaotic international evacuation effort shows that Europe needs to develop its own military capacity independent of the United States, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell argues
Only a global response can tackle the rise of online harms. Here’s why
By: EBR | Friday, August 6, 2021
The “new normal” of working, learning, and socialising from home during COVID-19 saw the significant rise of online harms being reported
Can we reach net-zero by 2050? These 3 focus-points will help
By: EBR | Thursday, August 5, 2021
Climate action is gaining momentum. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries have intensified climate action
Russian and Uzbek militaries begin joint Afghan border drills
By: EBR | Thursday, August 5, 2021
Troops from Russia and Uzbekistan began joint military drills on Monday (2 August) near the Afghan border, amid fears in both countries that a worsening security situation in Afghanistan could spill over into Central Asia
The United States as Number 2?
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 4, 2021
The Republican Party is utterly unprepared for the hard realities of relative U.S. decline vis-a-vis China
Can President Biden deliver on global tax reform?
By: EBR | Friday, July 30, 2021
On global tax reform, the key question is whether US President Joe Biden will be able to persuade Congress to support the changes needed to implement a global plan to tax multinationals more fairly
Creating zero-emission aviation with hydrogen and electric power
By: EBR | Friday, July 30, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has sharpened the public’s understanding of the role that flying plays in our lives
How can we close inequality gaps in the global COVID-19 recovery?
By: EBR | Thursday, July 29, 2021
The global economic recovery continues, but with a widening gap between advanced economies and many emerging market and developing economies
Market design can help solve global water scarcity. Here’s how
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 28, 2021
A successful initiative in the US to reallocate scarce radio spectrum demonstrates the power and potential of market design
Austria says it will not solve Europe’s Afghanistan problem
By: EBR | Monday, July 26, 2021
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer has strongly criticised the EU over its migration policy saying it has failed to deliver tangible results
EU’s planned carbon border levy violates trade principles, says China
By: EBR | Monday, July 26, 2021
The European Union’s plan to impose the world’s first carbon border levy will expand climate issues into trade, both violating international principles and hurting prospects for economic growth
The Route to Authoritarian Power in Democracies: From the 1930s to the 2020s
By: EBR | Monday, July 26, 2021
The history of white nationalism, grievance and authoritarianism in Europe makes the agenda of the current Republican Party in the US far easier to understand
We can help beat the climate crisis by investing in nature
By: EBR | Friday, July 23, 2021
In Paris in 2015, leaders from 192 nations committed to limit the increase of global average temperatures since pre-industrial levels to well below 2°C, while pursuing efforts to stay within 1.5°C
Can the Tokyo Olympics help bring the world together?
By: EBR | Thursday, July 22, 2021
Exactly 125 years after the first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens, the first ever summer Olympics to take place without spectators are set to begin in Tokyo this week
Is Critical Race Theory Too Complex for U.S. Politics?
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Today’s problems call for less binary and more systems thinking
New EBR issue bids farewell to Angela Merkel
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 21, 2021
It’s Summer time, although not a normal (another) one, still the holiday season we almost all have been waiting for… So, here we go with issue number 3 for 2021
By: N. Peter Kramer
