Athens "sous le ciel de Paris"
By: EBR | Wednesday, October 13, 2021
"Paris-Athenes: Naissance de la Grece moderne 1675-1919" in the the Louvre Museum
The High Cost of An Unpredictable Turkey
By: EBR | Tuesday, October 12, 2021
With twenty months left until Turkey’s legislative and presidential elections, the political debate will be fierce. The West may choose to sit it out rather than see its relationship with Ankara deteriorate even further
President Tsai makes President Xi angry
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, October 11, 2021
China has reacted with fury to a speech by the President of Taiwan, a country considered by the communist regime as a renegade province
On EU initiative, UN rights council creates Afghanistan rapporteur
By: EBR | Friday, October 8, 2021
The European Union on Thursday (7 October) won its battle at the UN Human Rights Council to create a new special rapporteur on Afghanistan, despite opposition from China, Russia and Pakistan
Taiwan seeks international support after Chinese incursions
By: EBR | Thursday, October 7, 2021
Taiwan will ensure regional peace and stability and seeks to work with other like-minded democracies, President Tsai Ing-wen told senior French and Australian dignitaries on Thursday (7 October), days after a dramatic spike in tensions with China
Biden says he and China’s Xi agree to abide by Taiwan agreement
By: EBR | Wednesday, October 6, 2021
US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday (5 October) that he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan and they agreed to abide by the Taiwan agreement, as tensions have ratcheted up between Taipei and Beijing
World airlines commit to ‘net zero’ CO2 emissions by 2050
By: EBR | Tuesday, October 5, 2021
The world’s airlines made a joint pledge Monday (4 October) to reach “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050, as the aviation industry ramps up efforts to curb its contribution to global warming
Lessons for the energy transition from the 2021 energy crisis
By: EBR | Monday, October 4, 2021
As we head into the final quarter of 2021, a global energy crisis is sending shockwaves through economies and industry sectors around the world
We must reform trade to build a sustainable, inclusive global recovery
By: EBR | Monday, October 4, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened inequalities in and across countries. Recent record heatwaves remind us that we must address the climate crisis before it’s too late
The world’s most innovative countries
By: EBR | Thursday, September 30, 2021
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released its 2021 Global Innovation Index
AUKUS Deal: Europe’s Global Strategy Falls Short
By: EBR | Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Europe needs to make clear proposals to the U.S. in its Indo-Pacific strategy to set a common approach to China
A chance for a transatlantic reset
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 28, 2021
The EU-US Trade and Technology Council marks an opportunity for de-escalation and bridge-building in the troubled transatlantic relationship
Australia and the Cost of Texting Europe
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Unconvinced by the EU’s stance toward an increasingly assertive China, Australia has sidelined Europe in its approach to the Indo-Pacific. This places Canberra’s trade and diplomatic relations with Europe at risk
EU working on a ‘presence on the ground’ in Afghanistan
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Following the chaotic evacuation of international embassy staff from Kabul in August, the European External Action Service is now “working on a possible presence on the ground”
What a global drive on renewable energy can (and can’t) deliver
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 28, 2021
This has been a summer of ‘global warning’. Natural catastrophes point more clearly than ever to the dangerous reality of climate change
Ireland draws a red line on country of origin principle in DSA
By: EBR | Monday, September 27, 2021
Following a French initiative against the country of origin principle, Ireland is leading a counter-offensive of ten countries that consider the move would disrupt the digital single market
Taiwan blasts ‘arch criminal’ China for Pacific trade pact threats
By: EBR | Friday, September 24, 2021
China is an “arch criminal” intent on bullying Taiwan and has no right to oppose or comment on its bid to join a pan-Pacific trade pact, Taiwan’s government said in an escalating war of words over Taipei and Beijing’s decision to apply
Rwandan national hero Rusesabagina sentenced to 25 years in prison; only political pressure can save him
By: EBR | Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Paul Rusesabagina, who rescued more than 1200 compatriots in 1994 during the genocide by providing them with protection at his Mille Collines hotel, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday in his native Rwanda
Soften climate change or suffer it, the cost will anyway be huge
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The world’s rich nations are aggravating the climate crisis. Although many see themselves as standard-bearers in the fight against global warming, the reality is very different
The World’s Most Innovative Countries, 2021
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Innovation has, in many ways, flourished over the past 19 months
By: N. Peter Kramer
