
Business has a big role to play in vaccinating the world
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 15, 2020
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the prospect of a cold, socially distanced winter looming ahead, all of us are hoping that our jobs, businesses, schools and social lives will soon return to some semblance of normalcy

EU: Forever Timid on Erdogan’s Turkey?
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The EU searches for a solid strategy for dealing with Turkey. The new U.S. administration may induce it to toughen its course

Shift to digital during the pandemic could enable universal health coverage
By: EBR | Monday, December 14, 2020
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic which started as an outbreak in one country, and very quickly travelled around the world, makes a strong case for investment in global public health and has resurrected the debate of universal health coverage (UHC)

Taiwan rated the only free country in Asia
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, December 14, 2020
Taiwan is the only ‘free’ country in Asia according to the People Power Under Attack 2020 report released last week by Johannesburg headquartered Civicus

Is Europe Ready to Work With the United States on China?
By: EBR | Friday, December 11, 2020
Incoming U.S. president Joe Biden offers a chance to renew transatlantic ties and forge a common EU-U.S. policy toward China. But for that to happen, the Europeans must agree on how to deal with Beijing

It is the Amazon, stupid
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 8, 2020
The economy of the world ultimately depends on the global climate, the availability of water and the abundance of plants and animals

The Twin Fallacies of Europe’s Leaders
By: EBR | Friday, December 4, 2020
More than ever, the time has come to seriously account for the forces and fallacies that have allowed today’s leadership of the European Union to betray so blatantly its founding principles and values clearly stated in articles 2 and 7 of the EU Founding Treaty

Au revoir, consensus?
By: EBR | Thursday, December 3, 2020
The new NATO reform report recommended a more political role for the Western alliance, which is unlikely to go without some resistance in allied capitals. Au revoir, consensus? Not quite

Why COVID-19 shows the future not the end of globalisation
By: EBR | Thursday, December 3, 2020
“Wave goodbye to the greatest era of globalization — and worry about what is going to take its place,” wrote The Economist in May

Biden, Iran and the Bomb
By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Joe Biden will soon be in charge of US foreign policy. An early test will be Iran, and whether he will abandon he strategic gains that President Trump has made in the Middle East and return to the deeply flawed 2015 nuclear deal

Imagine Turkey without Erdogan
By: EBR | Monday, November 30, 2020
At the 10-11 December EU summit, the main foreign policy intrigue is whether the member states will adopt sanctions against Recep Erdogan’s Turkey. But Germany and France are divided

On trade, politics is still king
By: EBR | Thursday, November 26, 2020
The European Commission likes to proclaim itself a defender and promoter of free trade and the review of EU trade policy, the public consultation on which closed last week, is only likely to double down on that promise. But the reality is much more complicated

US: How to Avoid Another 2020 Election
By: EBR | Thursday, November 26, 2020
The U.S.’s embarrassing problems with something as basic as voter registration should serve as a wake-up call

Covid-19 is ushering in a new era in geopolitics - We must embrace it
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Geopolitics – meaning not just Great Power rivalry, but political conditions everywhere – is entering a new phase. Government and business policymakers must sharply adjust their thinking

Bosnia’s war and peace
By: EBR | Friday, November 20, 2020
In recent European history, it is difficult to find a political experiment that has flopped as spectacularly and as silently as the Dayton Peace Accord

The news you possibly missed: TAP pipeline up and running
By: EBR | Friday, November 20, 2020
Neither the COVID-19 pandemic nor the Nagorno-Karabakh war could stop Azerbaijan from finalizing the TAP project, and the first Azerbaijani gas had been already supplied to European consumers

UN chief presses EU to agree tougher climate change target
By: EBR | Friday, November 20, 2020
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday (19 November) urged the European Union to lead global efforts to slash planet-warming emissions by setting a new climate change target next month

Smaller House majority poses headaches for Democrats
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, November 18, 2020
For six months, centre and left Democrats fought side by side. But now, with the enemy defeated, the internal war blazes up

Are we witnessing the dawn of a new global politics?
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 17, 2020
«Like many millions, I was besotted by the coverage of the US election»

China puts “6G” test satellite into orbit
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 17, 2020
China launched what it claimed is the first 6G experimental satellite to test communications from space using high-frequency terahertz spectrum