The UK’s grueling divorce process from the EU entered a new phase on Monday (28 October) as Council President Donald Tusk announced the bloc has agreed with yet another extension. Being aptly dubbed a ‘flextension’, this is ..
Multilateralism may, in theory, put countries on an equal economic footing. But in practice the concept has often relied on an anchor government to create and preserve global norms. Under the presidency of Donald Trump, the ..
The conflicts in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen have killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions. Economic motivations, at the individual and group level, are key to understanding the wars in these countries, yet ..
The new European Commission will inherit an impasse in efforts to reform the European asylum system as well as concerns about practices in the management of the EU’s external border that contradict humanitarian standards and ..
The five biggest publicly listed oil and gas companies – BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total – and trade groups representing them spent more than 250 million euros lobbying the European Union to influence climate action ..