
We need to replace the world’s most potent greenhouse gas
On World Earth Day, as our fellow citizens of the world pledge to undertake a brilliant array of earth-restoring actions, from trash hacking to “plogging” (picking up litter while jogging), it’s time to fix our sights once more on a hidden climate threat

The case for an ’economic NATO’ to clip provocative China’s wings
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 20, 2021
What’s to be done about China now that it is becoming a geo-political problem? Its goal of global primacy not only poses a threat to others but eventually to itself

Beijing huddles with autocratic friends, seeks to fracture US-led ‘clique’
By: EBR | Monday, April 19, 2021
China is shoring up ties with autocratic partners like Russia and Iran, as well as economically dependent regional countries, while using sanctions and threats to try to fracture the alliances the United States is building against it

Floating solar farms could cool down lakes threatened by climate change
By: EBR | Monday, April 19, 2021
Solar power is now the cheapest source of electricity in history, according to a 2020 report by the International Energy Agency

Of Borders and Metaphors
By: EBR | Monday, April 19, 2021
How the U.S. handles the U.S.-Mexican border will say much about its character as a nation

Should NATO Admit Ukraine?
By: EBR | Friday, April 16, 2021
There is no consensus in NATO in favor of Ukraine’s membership. What the most determined Western countries can do is provide intelligence and military support to Ukraine, including weaponry and capability building
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Sports and Human Rights: Athletes Speak Out
By: EBR | Friday, April 16, 2021
The idea long promoted by international sports federations that sports and politics are unrelated has always been an illusion

After Brexit: London is still Europe’s top financial centre
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, April 14, 2021
The end of last month the UK and EU agreed a new post-Brexit financial services pact that allow them to co-operate on regulation

Time for governments to take biodiversity loss as seriously as climate change
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Together with climate change, the world is also facing a biodiversity crisis, which has failed to capture the same attention. But efforts made by governments to tackle the climate crisis show that action is possible when there is sufficient political will

Vaccinate the Billions or Lose the Battle for Democracy
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 14, 2021
The EU should back a coordinated global industrial strategy, including vaccine production facilities across the world, otherwise China will plug the gap. That means challenging private-sector patent monopolies

Mothers are the invisible army carrying us through the pandemic
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Over the course of the past year, women have overwhelmingly taken the brunt of this pandemic

US Corporations: The US’s New Principled Liberals?
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Republicans increasingly force U.S. corporations to act as a kind of extra-parliamentary opposition to protect their brands and consumer appeal

How COVID-19 and ‘work from anywhere’ can build the city of the future
By: EBR | Monday, April 12, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically and drastically changed the way we work. All around the world, government, education and healthcare industries have had to operate virtually, in many cases for the first time. Work from anywhere is becoming a more permanent fixture wherever jobs allow

How global tourism can become more sustainable, inclusive and resilient
By: EBR | Monday, April 12, 2021
Tourism was one of the sectors hit hardest by the global pandemic. 2020 was the worst year on record for international travel due to the global pandemic, with countries taking decisive action to protect their citizens, closing borders and halting international travel

Immigration: Biden’s Biggest Foreign Policy Test
By: EBR | Friday, April 9, 2021
Why only a Marshall Plan for Central America has a shot at dealing with the region — and why it makes political and economic sense

Protocol scandal symbolises the state of EU-Turkey relations, EU lawmaker says
By: EBR | Friday, April 9, 2021
We shouldn’t place ‘Sofa-gate’ into the epicentre of a plenary debate in the European Parliament, but rather discuss how to rebuild relations with Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who no longer has a commitment toward a European future

Xi urges Europe to ‘make positive efforts with China’ in Merkel call
By: EBR | Thursday, April 8, 2021
President Xi Jinping told German leader Angela Merkel during a phone call Wednesday (7 April) that he hoped Europe would “make positive efforts with China”, Chinese state media reported, following an international row over the treatment of Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang

Protecting our health also means switching to toxic-free food packaging
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 7, 2021
As the world looks to rebuild after COVID, we need to change our approach to the environment, particularly the chemicals and single-use plastics involved in food packaging

Taiwan says will fight to the end if China attacks
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Taiwan will fight to the end if China attacks, its foreign minister said on Wednesday (7 April), adding that the United States saw a danger that this could happen amid mounting Chinese military pressure, including aircraft carrier drills, near the island

China says carrier group exercising near Taiwan, drills will become regular
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 6, 2021
A Chinese carrier group is exercising near Taiwan and such drills will become regular, China’s navy said late on Monday (5 April) in a further escalation of tensions near the island that Beijing claims as its sovereign territory