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Greek leaders credit preparedness and a disciplined population. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis asked officials for a virus response plan in January. He praised widespread compliance with lockdown measures in an address to the nation this week, saying the “slightest letup can lead to a painful regression.”

Humbled Greeks Show the World How to Handle the Virus Outbreak

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Derided by European partners as a problem child during its decade-long financial crisis, Greece is setting an example for the world with a swift response to the coronavirus epidemic

"I for one hope that the “people over cars movement” spreads to as many densely populated areas so that we can mingle, hang out and celebrate life hopefully soon, without masks and closeup."

A Different Post-Corona US?

By: EBR | Monday, June 15, 2020

When public life in small U.S. towns suddenly feels liberating, with almost a Mediterranean feel

When Germany took over the chair of the UNSC in April 2019, it emphasised the WPS agenda as one of its “core concerns,” in particular highlighting “more women’s political participation and better protection against sexual violence.”

‘Women, Peace and Security’ agenda must be at heart of government policy, German NGOs demand

By: EBR | Friday, June 12, 2020

As Germany prepares its latest plans to promote the objectives of UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, a group of 17 German NGOs, including UN Women Germany and the International Rescue Committee, have weighed in on changes they want to see

What can they do to help foster a more inclusive community capable of achieving a “great reset”?

The Great Reset needs great leaders to help the most vulnerable

By: EBR | Friday, June 12, 2020

The World Economic Forum has recently launched the Great Reset. It will be the theme of its 2021 Annual Meeting in Davos

She served in President George W. Bush’s Cabinet, both as US top diplomat and before that as national security adviser. But she also served (as an intern) in the Carter administration’s State Department as well as in President George H.W. Bush’s administration.

Will Condoleezza Rice become Joe Biden’s VP candidate?

By: EBR | Friday, June 12, 2020

A politician must have a fine sense of timing. A crisis can be the perfect time for a public performance or new policy

"The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw about one quarter of the U.S. troops in Germany is “astrategic”—that is, it is completely unmoored from any discernable strategy vis-a-vis Russia or other national security threats."

Will U.S. Troop Pullouts Accelerate European Defense Integration?

By: EBR | Friday, June 12, 2020

The U.S. decision to withdraw 9,500 troops from Germany exacerbates tensions in the transatlantic relationship. Could it also focus the EU’s attention on the need for a serious defense policy?

In the US, COVID-19 has taken a disproportionate toll on African-American communities, low-income people and vulnerable populations such as the homeless. In Los Angeles, the death rate for black citizens is nearly three times that of its wealthiest residents.

Responding to the anger

By: EBR | Thursday, June 11, 2020

The anger generated by the murder of George Floyd has brought forth once more demands for real civil rights and an end to the racism that scars societies, not just in the United States but also around the world

Two decades ago the issue was the potential sale to China of Israeli Phalcon airborne warning and control systems (AWACS). Israel backed out of the deal after the United States threatened withdrawal of American support for the Jewish state.

Israel-China Relations: Staring Into the Abyss of US-Chinese Decoupling

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Israel will have to walk a fine line between accommodating the U.S. and maintaining freedom of relations with China

COVID-19 has made visible the deep vulnerabilities and inequities that pervade so many of our cities and our urban ways of life. In the post-pandemic era, we must rethink urban design, planning and management and our relationships to urban systems.

The COVID-19 recovery can be the vaccine for climate change

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 10, 2020

COVID-19 was not just a predictable crisis — it was predicted. An array of official guidelines for pandemic preparedness and response, from the World Health Organization and others, highlights just how seriously the threat was perceived

The WTO and its rulebook play a vital role in the global economy, but the organisation is under threat. The problems confronting the WTO – US-China trade tensions, the unilateral raising of trade barriers, the fact that the WTO’s Appellate Body can no longer function – were formidable even before COVID-19.

5 reasons why the role of WTO Director-General matters

By: EBR | Friday, June 5, 2020

The Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Roberto Azevedo, announced on 14 May that he would step down a year earlier than planned

«All of the major global players, the United States, China and the European Union, got their initial response to the crisis partly wrong.»

COVID 19: Assessing the Global Political Fallout

By: EBR | Friday, June 5, 2020

The COVID 19 pandemic and the ensuing mega-recession may shape political debates and choices for a long time

There are many reasons to pursue a Great Reset, but the most urgent is COVID-19. Having already led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, the pandemic represents one of the worst public-health crises in recent history. And, with casualties still mounting in many parts of the world, it is far from over.

Now is the time for a ’great reset’

By: EBR | Friday, June 5, 2020

COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying

EU budget chief Johannes Hahn has even had to go out of his way to insist that the €750bn recovery fund plan is not an act of altruism but an investment strategy, pure and simple. Nearly 175,000 people have died in Europe alone, yet the discourse’s real focus is the bottom line, not lives.

The Brief – Ad astra et altruism

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Elon Musk’s success in blasting two astronauts into orbit provided a welcome – albeit brief – distraction from the grim situation plaguing most of the world. Humanity’s space exploits can tell us something about where society is going and, more importantly, failing

The SpaceX space capsule with NASA astronauts on board arrived safely at the ISS, a landmark mission that ended Russia’s monopoly on flights there. Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will remain on the ISS for almost three months in preparation for more missions from the US.

SpaceX’s brings back America’s status in space after 10 years ‘help’ by Russia

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 2, 2020

The space flight with the Crew Dragon from SpaceX, the first of a commercial company to the International Space Station, ISS, is a big success for the US

«No doubt that an agreement between secular Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs about a shared Israelihood is a formidable challenge.»

The Case for a New Jewish-Arab Alliance in Israel

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 2, 2020

This path would augment the prospect of Israel to remain a progressive, Jewish and democratic state

Trump’s new plan, outlined to reporters on Saturday, is to host an expanded G7 meeting including Russia, Australia, South Korea and India, dedicated to building an alliance against China. The plan is likely to be controversial because Russia has been banned from Western-led summits since Putin annexion of Crimea in 2014, and is not seen as a natural ally in the defense of human rights in Hong Kong.

Trump wants a new G7 platform with Russia, India, and Australian as an alliance against China

By: EBR | Monday, June 1, 2020

Donald Trump has been forced to cancel a planned face-to-face summit of G7 leaders in June and now wants to host an expanded meeting in September dedicated to countering China, to which Vladimir Putin would be invited

The recent cases in Ferguson and Cleveland are but the very public and latest painful manifestations of the country’s underlying problems with rules governing the legitimate monopoly on the use of force.

Ferguson/US: Police Systematically Out of Control

By: EBR | Friday, May 29, 2020

The far too liberal use of deadly force by police in a conservative country

The Hong Kong government’s continuous manipulation of laws to cripple elected persons and use administrative powers to prevent others from running for election caused further alienation.

Hong Kong and Beijing: A Tale of Two Cities

By: EBR | Thursday, May 28, 2020

The current protests show that Hong Kongers aren’t just interested in money, and mainland elites worry that Hong Kong won’t remain a separate territory where they can safely store their money

«The question is whether India can cope with becoming the new China. Before the country was paralysed by the corona virus, the economy, which largely revolves around informal labour, was not in good shape. About 60 percent of Indians work without any kind of security, and many of them were sick with unemployment overnight.»

If India wants to challenge China as a global manufacturing country, it will have to move quickly

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 26, 2020

The time is now, say experts, for India to undertake broad-based structural reforms and use these sweeping geopolitical shifts to modify its trading relationship with the world

Benjamin Ganz, leader of Blue and White, won the votes of people who believed him when he had promised that he would not sit in government with someone who had been indicted with such three serious charges. So he said. And so did Groucho Marx, who had said that, “Those are my principles and if you don’t like them, well, I have others.”

It’s In Israelis’ DNA to Battle the Coronavirus

By: EBR | Monday, May 25, 2020

If the COVID-19 crisis weren’t bad enough, then Israelis are about to suffer two more calamities

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