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Europe needs to counter the new populism if its damage is not to become irreversible. Unity is European citizens’ chief defence against accelerating global pressures that are both economic and political; the EU’s survival depends on its members’ democratic institutions, and these are among political extremists’ main targets.

How the EU can defeat populism

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 28, 2017

The flood waters of populism may yet engulf Europe's liberal democracies. The EU and its members haven't fashioned convincing responses to the siren songs of populist parties, and now some EU governments are even singing them too

If the current linear production model stays the same, it is estimated that by 2050 the fashion industry will be using 25 percent of the world’s carbon budget and every year an equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles of microfibers will be released into the oceans, polluting the ecosystem and entering the food chain.

New report calls for sustainable production models in the fashion industry

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Stella McCartney and Ellen MacArthur have partnered to launch a revolutionary report which urgently calls for a new, shared vision for a circular fashion industry, in order to eliminate environmental externalities

On a technical level, the digital propaganda strategies in question mostly rely on botnets and exploiting online communities, using paid content and sharing to disseminate material. In response, social media companies are planning new measures to better manage paid content on their platforms.

In the battle against fake news, the bots may be winning

By: EBR | Monday, November 27, 2017

Lawyers from top tech companies were recently asked about the role their firms played in the 2016 United States presidential election, during three Congress hearings

Space habitats will be launched from Earth initially, but as the resource supply chain expands and metals from asteroids and the Moon become available, this sector will also come to rely on resources sourced from space. Construction firms will combine high-quality metallic feedstocks with robotic orbital assembly fleets as we gain the ability to create orbital megastructures: hotels, factories, and permanent settlements that are no longer limited by size. The first cities in space will become possible as markets for real-estate on orbit emerge. Space will become affordable and profitable for developers.

These 5 industries will be first to do business in space

By: EBR | Monday, November 27, 2017

Companies around the world - in transportation, exploration, energy, construction or hospitality - are all looking upwards for the next growth opportunity. Space is quickly becoming a place where the industries that power our global economy will conduct business

Throughout Europe, towns and cities are increasingly aware of the need to cooperate and coordinate their actions to face the economic and social development challenges, and to use the potential of their territories in a more efficient way. This is why the future cohesion policy should foster development strategies beyond the city, allowing both urban and rural areas to complement each other and develop together.

Towards a cohesion policy that leaves no town or region behind

By: EBR | Monday, November 27, 2017

Brexit, budget tensions, recentralisation processes and the rise of Euroscepticism and populist ideas: European economic, social and territorial cohesion are being tested on several fronts

Intelligence showed a positive linear relationship with leadership effectiveness up to a certain point. But the association flattened out and then started to reverse at an IQ of about 120. When the leaders’ IQ scores rose to 128 or above, the association with less effective leadership methods was clear and statistically significant, the British Psychological Society notes.

Can being too intelligent make you a less effective leader?

By: EBR | Friday, November 24, 2017

Asking staff about the qualities of a good leader is a surefire way to get them talking

The biggest sticking point in COP23 has been on climate finance. Under Article 9 of the Paris Agreement, developed countries pledged to “provide financial resources to assist developing country Parties with respect to both mitigation and adaptation”, and to quantify every two years their paid contributions as well as level of financial support they will provide in the future.

Climate finance, the sticking point in COP23

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Rich countries had pledged to raise $100 billion each year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020. As of September 2017, they had pledged just $10.3 billion. And the question of who should pay remains unanswered.

Why the amount of emails we’re receiving is stressing us out

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Email is integral to the way that many of us work. Yet there is no universally accepted standard for its use, which leaves many of us struggling to find strategies that will help us work effectively without also overstressing or causing email fatigue

Today, we know the neoliberal policies initiated by Reagan and Thatcher have been successful at generating growth: the United States and the UK have outpaced others. But we also know that the same neoliberal policies have failed at redistributing resources and opportunity. If individual economic success is deemed the highest possible achievement, poverty becomes justified by someone’s lack of effort or ability.

How the American dream turned into greed and inequality

By: EBR | Friday, November 17, 2017

The American Dream is broken. Paul Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives, recently stated that "in our country, the condition of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life."

Therefore, once again we stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work and relate to one another. In its scale, scope and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything human kind has experienced before.

New goals in a new era

By: Athanase Papandropoulos | Friday, November 17, 2017

According to the 96 years old French philosopher Edgar Morin, we live in the era of complexity

Looking ahead, as a deep political crisis unfolds in Turkey and instability continues to rise, Ankara’s tensions with European governments will likely dissuade European tourists from visiting in the numbers they once did, at least for the foreseeable future.

Turkey: Europe Out, Middle East In

By: EBR | Friday, November 17, 2017

As the primary source of tourists visiting Turkey shifts from Europe to the Middle East, a 150 year-long era comes to a close

We have locked ourselves into a cave of our own making. We have become tribal and defensive. The mainstream media is categorized as elitist and politicized, unable to carry out its vital role of truth-telling as the fourth estate in global governance. We opt instead for opinion based on personal experience, using the social platforms as equivalent or superior forms of communication.

Why the fake news bomb has exploded

By: EBR | Friday, November 17, 2017

We are just out of the field on a flash poll in the U.S. taken last week, with 1,000 members of the general population and an oversample of 113 Silicon Valley-based tech employees on the impact of fake news on trust in mainstream media