Trump’s EU-US Trade Deal Could Cost Europe for Years to Come
The EU-US tariff agreement ends short-term uncertainty in Europe, but it has also humiliated the bloc and undermines its future. Read More Here
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The EU Is Still Flying Blind
Given strong public support for the Conference on the Future of Europe, failure to make at least some strides toward developing a shared European vision would amount to a major missed opportunity. Worse, it would discourage those who, for better or for worse, have allowed their expectations to be raised. Read Here | Project Syndicate
Will Coronavirus Kill The European Union?
It took COVID-19 several weeks to mass migrate from China to Europe, but the continent is now awash in the virus. The pandemic has fully arrived in Italy and Spain. Other nations await the disease, hoping to slow its spread. It will kill many Europeans. It also might kill the European Union, at least the […]
Inside The Chaos Surrounding Britain’s Brexit Boondoggle
Britain’s departure from the European Union and the forging of a new cross-Channel relationship was supposed to be one of the “easiest” deals “in human history.” It has, instead, turned out to be a national nightmare and an international embarrassment. Read Here – The National Interest Also read: The Brexit Wreckers
Donald Trump’s Real Foreign Policy Has Arrived
Does Trump indeed mark the end of an era? Or will he prove a transitory figure who created a mere interregnum in America’s quest for primacy after the Cold War? In speaking about America’s purpose, Trump himself has repeatedly made it clear that he seeks to overturn what he regards as the benighted policies of […]
The EU Can’t Avoid U.S. Sanctions On Iran
At first shrill and chaotic, Europe’s outrage at Trump’s take-no-prisoners Iran policy has now found a bold and practical course of action. A core group of creative European civil servants has devised several economic mechanisms meant to demonstrate the EU’s continued support for the nuclear deal, deliver Iran its economic benefits, and assert Europe’s ability […]
Brexit: Eighteen Of The World’s Leading Experts On What Happens Next
Where do Britain and the EU go from here on Brexit? Can and should Britain stay in the EU (from a legal, political, public opinion, or another standpoint) or is separation best? Should Britons get another vote on Brexit or on the final deal? What will Britain’s future relationship with the EU look like, and […]
How To Resolve Europe’s Political Crisis Over Migration
Since the European Union’s migration crisis peaked in 2015, the number of illegal migrants arriving in the EU has fallen by 95%. Migration challenges remain, and reform of the EU’s methods for managing immigration is desperately needed, as the recent scandalous treatment of the Aquarius rescue vessel, which Italy and Malta turned away, made all too […]
The Transatlantic Rupture
In the past, Europeans often diminished the value of geography, which would have demanded a closer relationship with Russia, in favour of the geography of values, which justified a transatlantic orientation. When the US is led by an administration that is betraying those values, however, that argument no longer applies. Read Here – Project Syndicate
America’s Allies Should Stand Up To Its Reckless Trade Policy
Mr Trump’s goals go far beyond tariffs on a few metals. He seeks trade terms that will force supply chains to move to America, damn the economic consequences. For example, the administration wants the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to expire automatically after five years, robbing firms of the certainty they need to invest in […]
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