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A ship stuck in the The Suez Canal has caused major disruption to global shipping.

The stuck ship in the Suez Canal is an important lesson for global trade

By: EBR | Monday, March 29, 2021

It’s estimated that 90% of the world’s trade is transported by sea. As consumers, we rarely give much thought to how the things we buy make their way across the planet and into our homes

For Blinken, the State Department said his trip to Belgium is aimed at boosting ties with NATO allies and partnering on issues such as NATO reform, climate change, Russia and China as well as regional hotbeds of tension.

Blinken rides high in rebuilding US ties on first Brussels visit

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 23, 2021

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is eagerly awaited in Brussels with allies hoping to rebuild transatlantic ties after Donald Trump’s departure from the White House

"The speed and complexity of technological advancement is not covered by a set of common ethical guidelines."

Global technology governance can succeed with the right cooperation

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Technology is central to modern life and will play a crucial role in helping the world recover from the COVID-19 pandemic

Kamala Harris (1964) is a radical left-wing politician. In 2018, according to non-partisan GovTrack, she was the fourth most progressive Senator (out of 100), to the left of Elisabeth Warren for example, who is usually labelled the female Bernie Sanders.

Kamala Harris for President. But when?

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, March 23, 2021

After 65 days in office, US President Joe Biden held his first press conference in the White House. It is remarkable that he expects to run for re-election in 2024, at the age of 82

Japan is back to planning the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, while China focuses on the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. Having been hit by COVID-19 first, Asia is also recovering first. At the pandemic’s first anniversary, is the region back to full health?

IMF: How Asia can navigate the long-term economic impact of COVID-19

By: EBR | Monday, March 22, 2021

The Sydney Opera resumed live performances and the city of Melbourne recently hosted the Australian Open tennis tournament with fans (mostly) in attendance

While ‘the Hindu rate of growth’ may have made for the odd op-ed, simple extrapolation from Maddison’s dataset on historical GDP figures show the Indian subcontinent to have had fairly similar GDP figures to China for most of modern human history.

India’s path and the fundamental role if its superfamilies

By: EBR | Monday, March 22, 2021

That India would grow was a fact to all but the most pessimistic

©Paul Buske / With Albanian national elections on 25 April 2021, nature conservation groups such as EcoAlbania, RiverWatch and EuroNatur are calling on the public and on political leaders to enshrine the future of the Vjosa and make this wild river national park a major priority.

Protect Europe’s last big wild river, the Vjosa in Albania

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, March 22, 2021

On World Water Day 22 March 2021, an urgent plea to protect Europe’s last big wild river, the Vjosa in Albania, became visible

"EU-UK relations are strained, but unless the Northern Ireland Protocol is somehow insulated from those tensions—and they cease to be instrumentalized—the potential consequences for peace on the island of Ireland are serious."

Is the Northern Ireland Peace Process at Risk?

By: EBR | Friday, March 19, 2021

Brexit is destabilizing Northern Ireland. London’s pursuit of a hard Brexit and the return of border politics could unravel the historic 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended the province’s conflict. It might need the United States to rescue the accord

“The United States uses its military force and financial hegemony to carry out long arm jurisdiction and suppress other countries.”

Top US, Chinese diplomats clash at start of first talks of Biden presidency

By: EBR | Friday, March 19, 2021

The first high-level US-China talks of the Biden administration got off to a fiery start on Thursday (18 March), with both sides leveling sharp rebukes of the others’ policies in a rare display that underscored the level of bilateral tension

"With that dynamic in motion, the optimal response for South America’s and Africa’s emerging superclans is straightforward: surf the wave of growth to the best of one’s ability, park most assets offshore – and take a plane out before it crashes."

Defining The New Global South Superclans

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 16, 2021

The fight or flight response is one of our most basic. Occurring primarily in the amygdala, it is well below the threshold of conscious rationalisation

‘Emerging global challenges have highlighted the need for supply chain resilience. The EU has put green energy and the digital economy at the center of its economic recovery plans. Taiwan has named renewable energy, next-generation electronics and biotechnology among our Core Strategic Industries.’

Taiwan President Tsai: ‘Strengthening EU-Taiwan connectivity spurs investment and create jobs’

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, March 16, 2021

President Tsai addressed by video the ‘Taiwan – EU Supply Chains Forum’, March 10 in Brussels. ‘Taiwan and the EU are key trading partners

"It’s disappointing that China is placing such a large focus on continuing its reliance on coal, and oil and gas. The world is relying on its largest emitter to step up on climate change – yet we see little of such action in this plan."

China approves five-year plan, underpinned by fossil fuels

By: EBR | Friday, March 12, 2021

China approved its five-year goals on Thursday (11 March), but the world’s biggest polluter shows little ambition of moving away from fossil fuels, leaving much to be decided

"South Africa and India renewed their bid to waive rules of the WTO’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement, a move that could allow generic or other manufacturers to make more vaccines."

Rich countries block push by developing nations to waive COVID vaccine patents rights

By: EBR | Thursday, March 11, 2021

Richer members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) blocked a push by over 80 developing countries on Wednesday (10 March) to waive patent rights in an effort to boost production of COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations

Three marine World Heritage sites around Australia account for about 40% of the estimated 5 billion tonnes of CO2 and other greenhouse gases stored across these sites, according to UNESCO, the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural organization.

These 3 World Heritage marine sites store billions of tonnes of CO2

By: EBR | Thursday, March 11, 2021

Protected marine sites around Australia are crucial for capturing and storing of greenhouse gases, according to a new UNESCO report

"The winner in the tug of war seems to be primarily decided by a group of rising middle powers whose development is marked by one system or another and whose weight enables them to set the tone for their own region, be it Russia, Iran and Turkey in Central Asia, Brazil in South America, or Indonesia in South-East Asia."

Indonesian Super Clans: Asia’s Swing Families

By: EBR | Monday, March 8, 2021

Naturally, if not evenly, the global tug of war between China and the United States is taking shape all around us – at summits, in technology, in vaccine purchases

Many businesses have been severely impacted, with unemployment levels hitting new highs, writes Huawei Technologies’ Deputy Chairman Ken Hu.

Why we need to bridge the digital divide for greater equality

By: EBR | Monday, March 8, 2021

COVID-19 is deepening inequity both within and beyond borders. And as the world shifts increasingly online, uneven access to technology is leaving much of the global population behind

"An effective push against Putin also requires reaching out to Turkey’s pro-democracy forces. The clock is ticking on that."

Putin and Erdogan: Two Men Race to the Bottom

By: EBR | Thursday, March 4, 2021

Russia’s and Turkey’s lack of a solid economic performance is what motivates their two leaders’ steady resorting to domestic oppression

"The list of foreign policy divergences between Ankara and European capitals is long. They include the deployment of missile systems that are adversarial toward NATO, gas research operations in the Eastern Mediterranean under a military escort, and war operations in Azerbaijan, Libya, and Syria—not to mention a new posture on a settlement for the divided island of Cyprus."

The Price of a Positive EU-Turkey Agenda

By: EBR | Thursday, March 4, 2021

Ankara’s goal in dealing with Europe is to limit the future agenda to trade, economic matters, and refugee arrangements. In a diminishing space for civil society, academic freedom, and human rights, EU leaders are divided over what strategy to pursue with Turkey

“The sunk costs of EU regulation would be huge for tech companies, but they would only occur once. The EU could therefore trigger a cascade effect, with platforms adapting their business model not just in Europe, but everywhere.”

Tech regulation: waiting for Biden?

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Germany, Denmark, Estonia and Finland “want to be more self-determined with democratic partners around the world” and to build “on a strong transatlantic relationship,” the country’s leaders said in their letter to the Commission

“The rebound in global carbon emissions toward the end of last year is a stark warning that not enough is being done to accelerate clean energy transitions worldwide,” IEA executive director Fatih Birol said in a statement.

CO2 pollution bounces back, climate goals at risk: IEA

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Global CO2 emissions have returned to pre-pandemic levels and then some, threatening to put climate treaty targets for capping global warming out of reach

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EU Actually

The EU struggles to find a united voice

By: N. Peter Kramer

EU leaders knew this may coming. For weeks, they watched the US military build-up in the Middle East. But since the US-Israeli attack started on Iran, the EU looked fractured and decidedly without leverage, caught up in the maelstrom of what happens.

Europe

The EU Needs a Third Way in Iran

European reactions to the war in Iran have lost sight of wider political dynamics. The EU must position itself for the next phase of the crisis without giving up on its principles.

Business

The EU’s zig-zag road towards stronger financial markets

Giles Merritt delves into the confusing welter of efforts to streamline Europe’s national financial players into a more dynamic single capital market