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During the formal meeting President Ma told Xi Jinping that the consensus reached between the two sides in November 1992 was that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait insist on “one China,” but they differ as to what that means, and each could express its interpretation verbally.

President Ma, mainland Chinese leader Xi meet in Singapore, agree to jointly consolidate cross-strait peace and prosperity

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 10, 2015

ROC President Ma Ying-jeou met with mainland Chinese leader Xi Jinping Nov. 7 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, in the first such meeting since the two sides of the Taiwan Strait came under separate governance 66 years ago in 1949

The reality is that China is simply different. As a point of comparison for consumer and retail companies, we regard the combination of the size of the prize and the degree of change needed to succeed as roughly analogous to what consumer-packaged-goods companies experienced in the late 1980s when Walmart changed the consumer game.

Five keys to connecting with China’s wired consumers

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Understanding China’s e-commerce market starts with knowing its online consumers and companies.

It would be naïve to expect Iran to change overnight. But it is equally so to assume that bombing Iran would change its behaviour.

Europe matters in Iran’s search for its identity

By: EBR | Monday, October 26, 2015

Will Iran cooperate and respect the agreements it has signed, or will we see an Iran that continues to support terrorism and build clandestine nuclear facilities?

For a long time it looked as though the people of Taiwan (Republic of China) might elect a woman as next President of their country.

Ruling Kuomintang replaces its Presidential candidate only three months before Election Day

By: N. Peter Kramer | Thursday, October 22, 2015

Views on ‘cross-strait policy’, the relationship between the island nation Taiwan and its huge neighbour on the other side of Taiwan Strait, Mainland China (Peoples Republic of China), is the main point of difference between the two major parties.

In the last seven years, Taiwan has signed 79 accords with the EU and European countries on areas ranging from education, customs and tariffs, and judicial assistance to youth working holiday programs, food safety, and R&D.

President Ma Ying-jeou addresses Members of European Parliament

By: EBR | Thursday, October 1, 2015

ROC President Ma Ying-jeou stressed Taiwan’s close ties with the EU and the inspiration of the European experience for the Republic of China in a video conference with Members of the European Parliament.

The donation from Taiwan will help Oceans Beyond Piracy supply communications equipment and sustainable power options to the five maritime security centres and collaborate with the above partners to ensure maritime security.

Republic of China (Taiwan) contributes to maritime security in Somalia

By: EBR | Thursday, September 10, 2015

Taiwan has proved itself a major humanitarian and development aid donor in recent years by offering emergency assistance to victims of natural disasters, funding agricultural projects, and providing emergency medical assistance.

The Paris-based Laughland also said the European Union and NATO both have an “ideological self-interest” in “perpetuating, aggravating and stimulating” the ongoing war in Ukraine´s eastern regions.

French Institute condemns "growth of far right and fascism" in Ukraine

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 30, 2015

John Laughland, director of the French Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, says the presence of Far Right militia in Ukrainian armed forces was helping to drive the conflict in the east of the country. He expressed fears about the ‘growth of Neo-Nazism and fascism’ in Ukraine.

Polish national parliamentarian Tadeusz Iwinski believes the OSCE Minsk group is now untenable despite still being the basis of the peace process endorsed by the international community, including the Council of Europe.

The Nagorno-Karabakh peace process is dead…

By: EBR | Thursday, June 25, 2015

The author of a report calling for political and judicial reforms in Azerbaijan says the official Nagorno-Karabakh peace process is dead, and as such, the conflict will continue to overshadow both politics and the reform process in the region.

Nestor Shufrych, a member of Ukraine′s Parliament and former government minister, said the economy was in "ruins" people had become "impoverished".

Investment and fight against corruption are "key" to helping Ukraine recover from bitter conflict

By: EBR | Thursday, March 26, 2015

A prominent member of Ukraine's political Opposition says a "catastrophic" economic collapse has left the country facing "social destruction."

The visit comes ahead of a summit of EU leaders, who meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to discuss Ukraine.

EU policymakers urged to make internal reform a condition of financial aid

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Opposition Ukrainian MPs have called for more awareness of human rights abuses in the war-torn country. The five-strong delegation was in Brussels on Monday for a series of meetings with MEPs and representatives from the European Commission.

In the economic history of humanity, urbanization has always been an accelerator of growth and development.

Building better cities

By: EBR | Friday, March 6, 2015

No economy in the world to date has become prosperous without becoming urban. We are, of course, in the midst of massive urbanization.

President Obama made his second visit to India. As during his trip to China last year, where he signed a landmark agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, climate change ranked near the top of the agenda.

President Obama’s Climate Diplomacy

By: EBR | Friday, February 27, 2015

It is striking that the climate issue, once a fringe concern in U.S. foreign policy circles, has become so central to two of America’s most important bilateral relationships.

Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for urgent fiscal reform in Europe at a special session of the 45th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.

Chancellor Merkel Calls for Urgent Fiscal Reform in Europe

By: EBR | Friday, January 23, 2015

Whatever the decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) on quantitative easing, she said that European leaders must not be diverted from continuing with meaningful structural reforms. “Time is of the essence,” Angela Merkel said.

Davos 2015: Only 17 percent of participants at this year′s World Economic Forum are women. This is why

By: EBR | Friday, January 23, 2015

According to its terms, the forum's strategic partners, consisting of around 100 companies, must bring along one woman in every group of five senior executives. But this move didn’t really get to the heart of the problem.

President Ma Ying-jeou urged the Taiwanese opposition to set aside partisanship and work together to pass a bill to monitor cross-Strait negotiations

President Ma: Taiwan’s future is up to its people

By: N. Peter Kramer | Friday, September 12, 2014

Recently Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), reaffirmed that Taiwan's future is in the hands of its 23 million people, an apparent response to Beijing's statement that the fate of Taiwan is up to "all Chinese people."

Climate Action the organiser of the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2014 has published a fascinating infographic about the climate change

150,000 people dying each year as a result of climate change

By: EBR | Friday, August 8, 2014

The infographic has been inspired by the 5th annual Sustainable Innovation Forum organised in partnership with UNEP alongside UNFCCC COP20

Elkhan Suleymanov: “For reasons best known to itself, the Council seems more intent on not rocking the boat”

Council of Europe challenged to make "historical choice" over Nagorno-Karabakh dispute

By: EBR | Thursday, June 26, 2014

In its “country progress report” on Azerbaijan, the European Commission said that 2013 was a “decisive year” in EU-Azerbaijani bilateral relations.

In an interview with EBR, Bouchez spelled out how the EU currently supports Kazakhstan government efforts to modernise its civil service through a four year bilateral assistance project, with a budget of €4.3m.

EU efforts to promote "green" economy in Kazakhstan

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The EU’s top official in Kazakhstan has spelled out how the bloc is helping the former Soviet republic to develop new programmes to support the transition to a "green" economy.

Indeed, according to Haaretz newspaper, Netanyahu, two weeks ago in a cabinet meeting, asked his ministers to come up with new ideas on what steps Israel might take in the new situation created by the end of negotiations and by the recent reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.

What now for Israel after breakdown of the peace talks?

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 20, 2014

In an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, Netanyahu expressed his concerns about the failure of the talks with the Palestinians. “The status quo is not a good idea, because I don’t want a bi-national state,” he said.

On February 11 Wang Yu-chi, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council Minister, and his Chinese counterpart, Zhang Zhijun, head of Taiwan Affairs Office Minister, met each other in the Chinese city of Nanjing. A symbolic place, Nanjing was the capital of the Republic of China when the nationalist Kuomintang of Chiang Kai-shek was in power. He and his government fled from there to Taiwan 65 years ago.

First official talks of Taiwan and China since 1949!

By: EBR | Thursday, February 13, 2014

Mainland China ("Peoples Republic of China") and Taiwan ("Republic of China") have held their highest-level and official talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.

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