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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.

Concern voiced over "alarming" rise in public executions in Iran

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Amnesty International says Iran has carried out a total of 40 executions since the beginning of 2014, with at least 33 carried out last week alone.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in December that the investigation had been extended until April 2014 and the wreckage of the plane would be handed over to Poland upon its completion.

New "evidence" emerges concerning the Smolensk tragedy

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Allegations have emerged that a "shadowy" organisation known as the “Grupa Spiskowa” in Poland may have been responsible for orchestrating the Smolensk air crash in 2010, which claimed the lives of the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other Polish officials.

Ma’s East China Sea Peace Initiative, proposed to resolve disputes over the Diaoyutai Islets dating back to August 2012, calls on parties to exercise self-restraint, avoid escalating tensions, maintain dialogue and respect international law.

President Ma calls for peaceful resolution of ADIZ disputes

By: EBR | Friday, December 20, 2013

The president urged countries with overlapping ADIZ claims in the East China Sea to sit down for talks “to prevent accidents” in the tense region.

The election date was set by the Election Commission which has said that the Jamaat-e-Islami, an influential Islamist party, is ineligible to contest the polls in line with a court order.

Top diplomat says unrest and elections divisions have put Bangladesh at "critical juncture"

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A senior Bangladesh diplomat has urged the European Union to be “more vocal” in denouncing a planned boycott by the opposition of the country's forthcoming elections.

The Age of Transparency has now been side-lined by the Age of Action and the Age of Reason. Whilst governments debate policy, businesses and civil society realise it not business as usual. A range of sectors therefore converged at the Sustainable Innovation Forum to explore how business and civil society can join forces and inspire change.

UNEP Delivers Clarion Call for Action to World Business & Civil Society Leaders

By: EBR | Friday, November 22, 2013

Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General & Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) delivered a clarion call to world business and civil society leaders at the 4th Sustainable Innovation Forum in Warsaw, Poland this week.

Although Guinea is a country rich in natural resources, such as bauxite, diamonds and gold, it ranks only 178 out of 187 on the UN Development Index.

International concern grows over fall-out from Guinea′s "rigged elections"

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 22, 2013

The recent elections in Guinea appear to have merely added to a sense of serious unease which continues to hang over this West African country.

Academic programmes in Dubai have the same validation and monitoring system as at the university′s London campus, with the same examinations taken simultaneously in both cities.

Universities as a model of universality: The UK example in Dubai

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 9, 2013

A British university is ´flying the flag´ for the transmission of educational values around the globe.

Taiwan invited to attend ICAO assembly!

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Shen Chi, director general of the Civil Aeronautics Administration of the Republic of China (Taiwan), has been invited to lead a delegation to the 38th assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization Sept. 24-Oct. 4 in Montreal.

Moscow, then, is clearly emerging as an economic powerhouse and it´s little wonder that a 2013 Ernst and Young report on Russia said that Moscow will be the most dynamic and prosperous city in the world by 2025.

Moscow rapidly emerging as a true global city state

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Moscow´s newly re-elected Mayor Sergei Sobyanin is looking forward to another term in office, managing a city of over 12m people.

Several lobby groups, including the International Foundation for Democracy and Governance who briefed journalists in Brussels earlier this week are fiercely pushing for Lithuanian MPs to table a resolution in their parliament in October similar to the one recently successfully adopted by the US Senate calling for the release of Tymoshenko as a condition before signing the Agreement.

Pressure on Ukraine to free Tymoshenko

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Pressure is mounting on Ukraine to free the country´s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison ahead of a landmark Association Agreement (AA) due to be signed with Kiev in just over two months.

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EU Actually

A mission impossible for Sébastien Lecornu, Macron’s 5th Prime Minister?

By: N. Peter Kramer

President Emmanuel Macron has again named a close ally, Sébastien Lecornu, as the new French prime minister, 24 hours after a vote of confidence ousted François Bayrou.

Europe

The EU must define its red lines in a tough new security doctrine

Realpolitik, greatly enhanced by television, has in recent weeks sent an embarrassing message around the world – the European Union isn’t the global player it claims to be

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