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Responding to climate change is a long and daunting task.

Integrating Taiwan’s Strengths into Global Climate Action

By: EBR | Monday, December 8, 2014

Scientists inform us that modern industrial development has caused carbon dioxide concentrations around the world to exceed the carrying capacity of natural ecosystems.

Bank of Japan addresses the depressing economic situation.

Japan rolls the dice: a report from Tokyo

By: EBR | Monday, December 8, 2014

On October 31, 2014, the government of Japan, through its subservient monetary arm, the Bank of Japan, made yet another desperate move.

The oligarchs are still profiting at the expense of the country and the rest of Europe.

Misrule of the few or how oligarchs ruined Greece

By: EBR | Monday, December 8, 2014

Just a few years ago, Greece came close to defaulting on its debts and exiting the eurozone. Today, the country’s economy is showing new signs of life.

One way or another, what really deserves attention is the haste of Israelis to embrace any solution, unrealistic as it may be, in order to avoid the painful necessity of dividing the land between them and the Palestinians.

No easy answers to Israel’s painful dilemma

By: EBR | Monday, September 29, 2014

In situations as complex as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which often seem insoluble, one sometimes envies the ancient Greeks, who invented deus ex machina — that artificial device that solved the entanglement of the dramatic plot.

a "natural gas deal" for Europe would ensure security of supply this winter and lower gas prices for all member states

Experts say crisis demands closer monitoring of European gas supplies via Ukraine

By: EBR | Thursday, September 18, 2014

The EU is suffering from high energy prices and a lot of competitiveness due to the US shale revolution. The EU will no doubt produce some shale gas over time. However, on its doorstep the EU has the world’s largest gas resources on the territory of the Russian Federation

Europe cannot avoid a Japanese-style lost decade just by upping the dose of monetary medicine. No amount of extra liquidity will entice overleveraged companies and households to borrow more. This was the case for Japan in the 1990s, and it is true for the eurozone (and the United States) today.

A European lost decade?

By: EBR | Thursday, August 28, 2014

Europe's economic woes resemble Japan’s situation in the 1990s, which led to a 'lost decade' of economic stagnation and deflation from which the country is still working to recover. Michael Heise asks whether Europe will suffer a similar fate.

The Committee of the Regions had urged for EU funds to be allocated directly to local and regional authorities

Youth unemployment: regions should be given flexibility to use EU funds

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 17, 2014

An opinion drafted by Mattia Tarsi, Member of Italy’s Pesaro and Urbino Provincial Council, pointed out that the number of developers creating applications in Europe was expected to rise from 1 million in 2013 to 2.8 million in 2018

A recent survey by strategy consultancy WorldThinks showed there is huge support for South Stream with 68% of Bulgarians backing it and only 5% against.The potential beneficial effects of South Stream were apparent to survey respondents, not just in terms and increased supply security, but overall economic benefits such as job creation, taxes and transmission fees.

Experts back Bulgaria in dispute over South Stream Gas Pipeline

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 7, 2014

The rapidly unfolding crisis in Ukraine has put the spotlight firmly on another burning issue that has dogged EU/Russia relations for years - energy security.

As ethnic Russians continued their celebrations across Crimea on Monday, Sroja Trifkovic, a Chicago-based Serb-American, "It is ironic that we have seen the Russian President upholding the principles of self-dertermination while the West,including the EU, seems to have been upholding the legacies of the Soviet past."

International election monitors refuted suggestions of violations in the Crimean referendum

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Our colleague Martin Banks was election monitor of the Crimea referendum on March 16. In this article he reports about the pressconference of the election monitors after the referendum

The economic plight of Crimea is a topic that cropped up time and again with the many people we spoke to as we travelled from one polling station to another to monitor the proceedings. And judging by the rundown condition of many homes, the terrible state of most public highways and general sense of fatalistic depression hanging over both the region and its inhabitants, it is hard not to sympathise with the case they argue.

Crimeans turn to Russia to turn round "economic mess"

By: EBR | Monday, March 17, 2014

Our colleague Martin Banks was election monitor of the Crimea referendum on March 16. He had the chance to meet some interesting people and to hear opinions that usually not come through to the European media ...

The UK government, which sees itself as a champion of press freedom, now finds itself in the dock internationally. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRA), the body which represents the global newspaper industry, has accused it of conflating terrorism and the legitimate work of journalists. If that became a reality, the Association wrote in a letter to David Cameron, the UK would be putting itself on the same level as Turkey and Ethiopia as countries where governments misuse anti-terror legislation to silence critics.

An unholy mixture: surveillance, the law and a setback for journalism

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 3, 2013

We should not underestate the seriousness of the government's attacks on those seeking to expose its surveillance secrets. At stake is not only what the state is entitled to do to the public, but what journalists are entitled to do to expose it and perform the vital role of public watchdog

The roles of Greece and Cyprus in the West′s political and security framework offer U.S. policy makers an arc of stability in the eastern Mediterranean, and bring the EU to within 45 minutes of Israel′s borders. Port usage, naval facilities, and strategic airbases that Cyprus and Greece have long extended to the United States permit a U.S. Sixth Fleet — if the U.S. should decide to return that once-powerful naval force to even a fraction of its former strength — to safeguard the region′s sea lines of communication.

Mediterranean Gas Find: A Chance for U.S. to Break with Turkey

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Politics and alliances in the eastern Mediterranean are shifting, and the region's security framework is splintering. The region is now divided as much within the Muslim world as between it and the non-Muslim states.

Most Europeans are profoundly concerned about the state of their economies. Just 1% of the Greeks, 3% of the Italians, 4% of the Spanish and 9% of the French think economic conditions are good. Only the Germans (75%) are pleased. Since before the euro crisis began positive sentiment is down 61 percentage points in Spain, 54 points in Britain, 22 points in Italy and 21 points in both the Czech Republic and France. And most Europeans are almost as gloomy about whether their national economic situation will improve in the next year.

The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The European Union is the new sick man of Europe. The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now the principal casualty of the euro crisis, and the European project now stands in disrepute across much of the continent.

Based on these political developments in Germany, many European observers point out that, on the one hand, Europe has embarked on a very slippery slope and, on the other hand, the German chancellor Mrs. A.Merkel elections next September is now facing very seriously the specter of defeat. This is because the new party can achieve an electoral score of around 10%, which mainly comes from the Christian Democrat area.

IF GERMANY LEAVES THE EURO ZONE

By: EBR | Friday, April 5, 2013

This time the situation is indeed very serious. A new party made its appearance in German politics and is composed of economistes, lawyers and Christian Democrat politicians who believe in the dissolution of the euro area before this, they say, breaks Germany.

Having Europe-wide economic synergy creates stronger corporate players, leads to lower-priced goods for consumers, and rewards innovation. Conversely, European economic fragmentation could subject companies — along with their managers, employees, unions, and regulators — to greater competitive pressures and hurdles.

The Business Case for the European Union

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 25, 2012

To corporate leaders, this year’s economic crisis is a sign that a more unified Europe is a solution, not a problem.

It is interesting to read a just published report about Russia by Pew Research Center. This leading institute, based in Washington DC and Democratic Party leaning, concluded on base of a nationwide survey that: ‘following a winter of discontent, Russians express an increased appetite for political freedom and at the same time strongly endorse Vladimir Putin’!

Russians Back Political Freedom and Putin Too

By: EBR | Thursday, June 28, 2012

'Country begins to tire of Putin’s reign' was the heading of a special Financial Times report about Russia. Is that news? Just after the French sent their President home after 1 term and with a chance that the Americans will do the same with their one in November, I would answer no on this question

Remember that Greece and Cyprus both have modern European histories mainly because they were claimed by Western powers for strategic reasons.In other words, from the point of geography and geopolitics, Greece will be in play for years to come.

Is Greece European?

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 6, 2012

It is not entirely an accident that Greece is the most economically troubled country in the European Union. The fact that it is located at Europe's southeastern back door also has something to do with it.

So what is the role of the European Union in all this? Almost none. Europe′s distance from the South China Sea is not only a question of geography. Asia is also distant from the hearts and minds of many Europeans. In many southern European countries, protectionist rhetoric depicts Asia as an enemy rather than an opportunity.

South China Sea politics more complex than the EU

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 29, 2012

As sabres rattle in the long-lasting territorial disputes over the South China Sea, now considered by many to be the new Persian Gulf due to its potential reserves of oil and gas, the European Union remains a marginal actor in the region.

In short, during those last decades, we have witnessed a complete and profound modification of both fundamental and critical points allowing this « culture gap » to operate in the advantage of the elites in contrast with the civil society. It seems that this alteration shall be a long lasting one, too...

The Fullness of Time ?

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 9, 2012

This crisis emphasizes the absence of a clear vision in order to inspire trust to people in agony, of a well-defined policy track in order to provide sense to active forces in the economy and to compose the heated spirits in the society, of a leadership advantage in order to create the difference.

While some may argue that the EU is an unfinished project, that there is still potential for everyone′s ideas, there is an increasing feeling among many that the core values of the EU are being put aside. They are the disappointed Europeanists: the new threat to European identity.

From Eurosceptics to disappointed Europeanists

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Four or five years ago, nearly every European Union official was looking to make national newspaper headlines. Today, the EU is a fixture on the front page — but not in a way we expected.

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