Angela Merkel’s retirement, long overdue, left Germany suffering from bureaucratic sclerosis and declining infrastructure. Policy failures of the Merkel era are...
3 November 2002 is election day in Turkey. Nearly 80 per cent of voters turn out to elect all 550 seats of the Grand National Assembly, and they do so in an ina...
On 16 February 2022, roughly a week before Russia invaded Ukraine, the attention of the ‘EU bubble’ was elsewhere – in Luxembourg, to be precise. There, the Eur...
Geopolitics has returned to Europe in a devastating and destructive fashion. Most obviously, there is Russia’s armed attack on Ukraine. But it has also returned...
“La basura es de los pobres (Rubbish belongs to the poor)!” shouted Montevidean wastepickers (known as clasificadores or classifiers) at a roadblock in the hist...
The Glasgow Pact agreed at COP26 requires that every major country produces new 2030 commitments by COP27 next year. It won't be easy for any country to find wa...
Vladimir Putin has been in power, as President or Prime Minister, for more than twenty years, during which time a particular view of the Russian leader has beco...
A free trade agreement with the US has consistently been presented as the main prize from the UK's much touted post-Brexit trade policy independence. The UK Pri...
Migration is likely to remain one of the world's most important political challenges throughout the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, public attitudes to im...
Following twenty years of war in Afghanistan, the Taliban swept through provincial capitals and took over control of virtually the whole country in a matter of ...
Since the 1990s, the major industrial nations have made a number of attempts to coordinate global responses to the challenges of climate change. Mos...
In this ongoing catalogue of coronavirus-related disorder – extraordinary death tallies, a global lockdown and chaotic financial markets – history re...
