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"The difficulties New Delhi and Brussels have in developing a better understanding are ironic. While neither side is aware of it, both the Europeans and the Indians are in fact similar in temperament and sensibility."

India: The Europe of Asia

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Despite a similarity in temperament, Europe and India struggle to enhance their partnership. Why?

"Military mobility aims to support member states’ commitment to simplify and standardise cross-border military transport procedures, seen as the ‘silver bullet’ for EU-NATO defence cooperation and designed to ensure seamless movement of military equipment across the EU in response to crises."

EU military project more important than NATO?

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 18, 2021

NATO member Turkey has submitted an application to participate in the EU’s Dutch-led military project on military mobility, despite tense relations with Greece and Cyprus. While the request is being reviewed, EU diplomats are split over Ankara’s possible participation

"Will history repeat itself in the current clash with Hamas? Israeli decision-makers surely hope so."

What will finally break the cycle of violence between Israel and Hamas?

By: EBR | Monday, May 17, 2021

How will this round of bloodshed between Israel and Hamas end? In 2006, at the heat of the Second Lebanon War, I briefly met Anthony Cordesman, one of the most respected military strategists in the world

"Due to its proximity to China, Taiwan had been expected to be one of the countries most severely affected by the epidemic."

Building a resilient and inclusive global health system together—Taiwan can help

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The threat that emerging infectious diseases pose to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism never ceases

"The lower educated workers put their money on Boris Johnson. They recognise themselves in his optimistic and nationalistic discourse."

Conservatives continue to gain in former Labour heartland

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, May 10, 2021

Local elections rarely warrant broad attention, but we do not live in normal times and the votes Britons cast Thursday don’t count as a normal local election

The EU has taken positions on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that have gone further than different U.S. administrations have.

The EU’s Passive Approach to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

By: EBR | Thursday, May 6, 2021

The Europeans have paid lip service to a two-state solution based on an independent Palestine alongside Israel. But without a clear plan to make it happen, such a solution will remain unattainable

"Biden has done a lot of good in the field of foreign policy, but it is clear that he draws his own lines without listening to the ‘allies’, which heralded his election as an end of the Trump years."

Biden had a good start but is also ‘Trumpian’

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Joe Biden has served 100 days as president, which serves since President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a measure of campaign promises and commitments that have not (yet) been fulfilled and of dreams and actions

“We have reaffirmed our unwavering support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Blinken said.

US and Britain tell China and Russia: the West is not over yet

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 4, 2021

The Group of Seven western democracies aims to court new allies to counter challenges from China and Russia without holding Beijing down and while pursuing more stable ties with the Kremlin, two of its top diplomats said

To accelerate global growth post-pandemic, 5G needs to be integrated with the other prominent technologies including WiFi and the cloud.

Why businesses must drive the next evolution in global connectivity

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Conventional wisdom tells us that every business is now a technology business. Through the explosion of devices that compute in some form or another – from cars and phones to medical devices and farming equipment – the lines between the ‘technology’ sector and other industries blur into transparency

The Powering Past Coal Alliance, led by the UK and Canada, with 111 members including 24 governments, local governments and businesses, is a key plank of Boris Johnson’s strategy for vital UN climate talks to be hosted in Glasgow in November.

Global alliance for phasing out coal not fit for purpose, says NGO

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 28, 2021

An attempt by the UK government to encourage countries and businesses around the world to quit coal for power generation is failing to make an impact, and in danger of being used as “greenwash”, an assessment has found

The latest reflection of the current administration’s principles is Biden’s statement on April 24, Armenian Remembrance Day: the killing and deportation of 1.5 million Armenians beginning in 1915 amounted to genocide.

The Wider Context of President Biden’s Armenian Statement

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Biden’s recognition of the killing and deportation of Armenians as genocide has caused outrage in Turkey. Dealing with a nation’s past is immensely complex. It can only be done by a country’s leaders and citizens

"The 705-member Brussels chamber is expected to overwhelmingly back the bare bones trade deal that was sealed last Christmas Eve after nine months of bad tempered negotiation."

European Parliament to wave through Brexit trade deal

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 27, 2021

The European Parliament will vote to ratify the EU trade deal with Britain Tuesday (27 April), turning the page on a difficult Brexit chapter but with little hope of smoothing relations with London

Okonjo-Iweala said that one of her three priorities for this year will be to tackle agricultural subsidies, which are mostly given by developed nations including the US and the EU.

WTO chief targets EU’s farm policy as part of global discussion on subsidies

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 27, 2021

The managing director of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said she wants to discuss China’s industrial subsidies but also state aid given to farmers, such as Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy, as part of efforts to improve the multilateral trading system

Biden soon after imposed sanctions on Russia for hacking into U.S. government agencies.

Biden: Appeasing Putin?

By: EBR | Monday, April 26, 2021

Putin’s little PR bluster games shows how much Russia has declined in the global league tables of geopolitical relevance. Why Joe Biden won’t take Putin’s bait

"U.S.-Russian, EU-Russian, and even Ukrainian-Russian relations seem far removed from realities on the ground. The locals are forced to make pragmatic choices to adjust."

Putin’s Undeclared Red Lines—For Now

By: EBR | Monday, April 26, 2021

Russia is bound to have prepared for different military scenarios in Ukraine. Spreading uncertainty is an essential part of Putin’s policy

“The cost of inaction keeps mounting. The United States isn’t waiting.”

Biden doubles US emissions cut target as summit lifts climate hopes

By: EBR | Friday, April 23, 2021

President Joe Biden on Thursday (22 April) doubled US ambitions on slashing greenhouse gas emissions, leading Japan and Canada at a summit in making new commitments that bring the world closer to limiting the worst climate change

"Future of the Amazon rainforest is at a dangerous environmental tipping point if deforestation levels rise another 5%."

Why a green economy is needed to stop Amazon deforestation

By: EBR | Friday, April 23, 2021

The Amazon Basin is on the brink of an irreversible tipping point with planetary implications

"Sulfur hexafluoride is 23,500 times more powerful than CO2 as a greenhouse gas."

We need to replace the world’s most potent greenhouse gas

By: EBR | Thursday, April 22, 2021

On World Earth Day, as our fellow citizens of the world pledge to undertake a brilliant array of earth-restoring actions, from trash hacking to “plogging” (picking up litter while jogging), it’s time to fix our sights once more on a hidden climate threat

"China’s challenge to the United States isn’t a problem in itself. Danger arises in how power is exercised."

The case for an ’economic NATO’ to clip provocative China’s wings

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 20, 2021

What’s to be done about China now that it is becoming a geo-political problem? Its goal of global primacy not only poses a threat to others but eventually to itself

“China has always resolutely opposed the US side engaging in bloc politics along ideological lines, and ganging up to form anti-China cliques.”

Beijing huddles with autocratic friends, seeks to fracture US-led ‘clique’

By: EBR | Monday, April 19, 2021

China is shoring up ties with autocratic partners like Russia and Iran, as well as economically dependent regional countries, while using sanctions and threats to try to fracture the alliances the United States is building against it

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