The world’s most popular tourist cities may have to rethink their entire model
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Bangkok tourist destination Khao San Road is usually heaving with people on weekends, its cheap beer bars, tattoo parlours, street vendors, hostels and buzzing nightlife drawing budget travellers and tour group alike
Germany’s Role in Belarus and Russia
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Angela Merkel, in her last stint as German chancellor, can still make a major difference for her country’s—and Europe’s—policy toward Belarus and Russia
United Arab Emirates reaching out to Israel is an historic breakthrough
By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, August 25, 2020
The fact that Israel and the UAE are establishing normal relations can rightfully be called an historic breakthrough
Kamala Harris: The Woman Who “Liberated” Angela Merkel
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Donald Trump is a compulsive misogynist. Why Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton and other women can now breathe more freely.
EU releases 33 million euros emergency aid for Beirut blast
By: EBR | Friday, August 7, 2020
The European Union announced Thursday (6 August) that it had released €33 million to finance initial emergency aid for Lebanon and mobilised material resources, including an Italian hospital ship, to help relief efforts in Beirut, devastated Tuesday by two explosions
COVID-19 has accelerated India’s digital reset
By: EBR | Thursday, August 6, 2020
Since the beginning of its COVID-19 lockdown in late March, India has distributed around $5 billion in cash benefits to its citizens who need assistance the most, entirely through payments made via digital platforms
Japanese FM in UK for post-Brexit trade talks
By: EBR | Thursday, August 6, 2020
Japan’s foreign minister on Wednesday (5 August) began a three-day trip to Britain in a bid to wrap up negotiations on a post-Brexit trade agreement
Joe Biden and Ending the US’s Dr. Strangelove Nuclear Posture
By: EBR | Thursday, August 6, 2020
It is imperative to structure the U.S. nuclear posture to guard against the greatest danger — accidental nuclear war
Russia surprises Cyprus with move to scrap tax deal
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Russia’s finance ministry said on Monday (3 August) it would scrap an agreement with Cyprus aimed at avoiding double taxation after talks to modify the deal failed, a decision that surprised Cyprus, which said talks were still under way
Toll expected to rise in blast that shook Beirut, killing 78 and injuring thousands
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut on Tuesday (4 August), killing 78 people and injuring nearly 4,000 in a toll that officials expected to rise
Dateline US: Economic Power for the 99%
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Economic shame haunts hard-working Americans. They ask themselves why they can’t do as well as their parents
Taiwan mourns former President Lee Teng-hui’s passing
By: EBR | Saturday, August 1, 2020
Taiwan is mourning the passing of Lee Teng-hui, the country’s first democratically elected president who died at the age of 97 July 30 in Taipei City.
Report: Preventive communication needed on Armenia-Azerbaijan border
By: EBR | Thursday, July 30, 2020
A communication channel set up in 2018 to discuss incidents along the front lines could be used for sharing preventative information to protect farmers and minimise risks of escalation on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, a recent report from the International Crisis Group (ICG) suggests
Globalization and Healthcare: Lessons the US Needs to Learn
By: EBR | Wednesday, July 29, 2020
The U.S. must urgently move beyond its cliche-ridden debate on healthcare
Agia Sophia
By: EBR | Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Church of the Holy Wisdom of God
US pipeline sanctions: Reality check
By: EBR | Tuesday, July 28, 2020
US pipeline sanctions suggest a deliberate misreading of the European gas market and a paternalistic “America knows best” view of how Europeans should manage their energy commerce
J’Accuse Erdogan
By: EBR | Monday, July 27, 2020
The weaker Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at home politically, the longer the list of the Turkish President’s transgressions gets
Welcome to the TikTok Wars
By: EBR | Monday, July 27, 2020
We live in an age where apps wars between major nations have geo-technological fallout
The US and the EU: A Tale of Two Continents
By: EBR | Friday, July 24, 2020
Compared to the extreme disunity and cynicism that rules the U.S. political process, the decision-making process of the EU27 is a sea of calm and rationality
Why the oil industry has less time to decarbonize than it might think
By: EBR | Thursday, July 23, 2020
There are market signs everywhere of growing impatience with the oil industry. Powerful investors are exiting high-carbon investments or limiting their exposure