With an issue as divisive as Brexit, everyone in England knows someone who voted for the other side. It’s like when there are two major sports teams in a city. You might not want to acknowledge your opposition’s existence publicly,...
Although London attracts millions of tourists every year, there is a hidden killer in this city: air pollution. Increased poor air quality has coincided with a rise in car ownership. The majority of drivers own diesel or petrol cars, which...
British secretaries are accusing Beijing of responding strongly to the recent protests occurring in Hong Kong. British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Jeremy Hunt, has stated that not supporting the 1984 Sino/British declaration will have important consequences for both...
Has Great Britain’s political future ever looked so grim? The race for leader of the Conservative party will end next week, and the polls decisively favour Boris Johnson, the Leave-engineering populist. Because of this, we have some idea who will...
What do the anti-Russian riots in Georgia have to do with the economic policy of Moscow? Why has President Putin‘s internal approval rating collapsed to historic lows? The answer to these and other questions provides a picture of today’s Russia...
The new EU-Mercosur deal will have both positive and negative impacts on the economies of four South American countries and the EU. Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and specifically their exporting industries, should see a rise in revenue due to...
The new Europe has certainly not been born under the best auspices. You can forget about politicians capable of managing a split, forget about European spirit, forget about an understanding of the new wind that blows over the states of...
Congratulations to Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s former Defence Minister and the European People’s Party’s (EPP) nominee for President of the European Commission (EC). She is now the first female in the institution’s history to become its...
The nominations for the presidencies of the EU institutions represented a significant setback for French President Emmanuel Macron, but they could be as equally humiliating for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) candidate for the President of...
(Vinnytsia) Ukraine elected Volodymyr Zelensky president this April in a landslide with over 73 percent of the vote. He is now trying to use that political capital to end the conflict in Ukraine’s east and tighten ties with Europe and...