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America is not immune to another COVID-style calamity

Globalization Gordon Brown - May 30, 2025.

While the COVID-19 pandemic is firmly in the past for many Americans, US households continue to bear the costs of infectious-disease outbreaks. A few months ago,...

Poland faces high-stakes election pitting nationalists against reformists

EU Sharmila Devi - May 30, 2025.

Poles will decide this Sunday in presidential elections whether Poland will cement closer ties with the European Union or return to populist promises and greater...

Legal blow to Trump's tariffs – a new era of uncertainty in the oil market

Energy Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - May 29, 2025.

The lifting of Trump's tariffs immediately caused the oil price to rise by more than one per cent. The American decision brought numerous uncertainties but also...

GDP has become an end in itself

Economy Kaushik Basu - May 29, 2025.

In mainstream economics, description is routinely treated as secondary to analysis. Labeling a work as “purely descriptive” conveys dismissiveness. Yet, as Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen...

Europe’s migration debate up while numbers down

EU Ferry Biedermann - May 29, 2025.

Migration is very much back at the centre of performative politics in Europe, after the first six months of the year were dominated by Donald...

Transatlantic synchronisation—the end of fragmentation of security measures?

Politics Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - May 28, 2025.

The EU and US Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting in Warsaw, scheduled for 2 and 3 June, represents the first serious step towards lasting...

Trump is weakening the long-term fair value of the dollar

Economy Jim O'Neill - May 28, 2025.

After a few weeks of relative calm in financial markets, following the tariff chaos US President Donald Trump unleashed on “Liberation Day” (April 2), Trump’s...

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