With the climate crisis dominating headlines, Europe has introduced a regulatory framework for environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors that gives a big push to its sustainable finance agenda.
Ireland could suffer disruption of natural gas supplies next winter because of a potential EU-UK trade war. Demands to throw money at this problem will lead to higher taxes and/or greater debt, hurting the economy and even future generations. To face its challenges, the country needs a dose of realism.
This is a critical year for European stability and security. With the ongoing energy crisis, surging COVID-19 cases and Russia’s intenisfying hostilities in Ukraine, Italy has just lost one of its most competent and respected prime ministers at the worst possible time.
For more than two centuries, the UK has had two schools of thought in its foreign policy establishment. One believes in engagement while the other in isolationism. Post-Brexit, the latter seem to be in the ascendant.
The war in Ukraine has had an immediate effect on the security and defense discourse in Europe. This discourse reflects how the European security architecture might evolve in the future.
Do the 2022 UK local elections mark the beginning of the end of Boris Johnson's leadership of the Conservative Party?
A newly united left in France proposes an ambitious program, bridging social justice, ecology and European reform that could challenge Europe’s neoliberal establishment.
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