Those who think the United Kingdom has disappeared from the international scene are mistaken. London is more than present in the various crisis zones, from North Africa to the Middle East, from the Sahel to the South China Sea. And...
(Evesham) When Emmanuel Macron was elected as President of France, he quickly became the EU’s biggest opponent to Brexit. He tried to entice British banks to relocate to Paris and did everything in his power to ensure Brussels’ negotiations with...
Nigel Farage’s Brexit party in the UK, which claimed it was receiving payments of £100,000 a day during the recent campaign for the European parliament, is now facing claims it was not vigilant enough in checking small donations. But could...
Brexit is an economic disaster. This is not an argument up for debate. Statistics show that Brexit is already costing the UK billions – in GDP decline, in investment decline, in tax revenue decline – and that is not all....
In August 2018 Greece officially ended its reliance on bailouts, hailing a new era of financial independence according to the PM Alexis Tsipras, but the future is far from rosy for the country’s young people. Giorgos S. is 23 but...
2018 was a bloody year for journalists. Including the brutal murder of the Washington Post’s Jamal Khashoggi, 95 media professionals were killed, either as a result of targeted killings, crossfire incidents, or bomb attacks. This is 13 more than were...
In 2004, The Italian Business Council of Qatar (IBCQ) was established in Doha when the Italian population was just slightly more than 300. “There was a need for a community organization to allow people to socialize through dinners or informal...
Greece was to emerge from the crisis to become the poster-boy of the European Union. Exit from the crisis would be the master-stroke whereby everyone would understand what Europe was, would see that a nation was exiting the debt crisis...
Turkey has recently sent a drill ship (Fatih, “conqueror”), after announcing its willingness to conduct exploratory natural gas drilling, in an area of the Eastern Mediterranean that Cyprus considers to be part of its Exclusive Economic Zone. According to Cyprus...
The jingoistic attacks on world trade by the Trump administration have already hurt economic growth in Europe. Europe, just starting out on an uneven recovery, could plunge into recession if world trade is disrupted further. Oxford Economics in London estimates...