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Inflation: plague or acceptable cost of growth?
The United States fears inflation and is fighting it, having previously invoked it and downplayed it. Europe has contracted a milder variant and intends to live with it. But we must consider the…
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A second chance for Europe’s currency?
The euro is a child of Germany’s unification and of the need to solidly anchor Germany to the European Community. The crisis triggered by the pandemic and the abundant geopolitical tensions today can…
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Bruno Maçães: Europe is Emerging as a Geopolitical Union
The problems that Europe is facing are directly related to errors of national policy, particularly in Germany, yet the EU has been much bolder and more decisive than the average member state in this…
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How to Use Economic Sanctions Wisely
Given the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the public’s support for sanctions has been strong. But, before tightening sanctions further or imposing them indefinitely, Western…
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Despite Setbacks, Failures and Deeply Shameful Mistakes, Europe Still Wins
Is anybody in Warsaw really willing to die for France? At first glance: no. But in fact the feeling and understanding of threats from Russia, China and Islamic terrorism are common for all the 27 EU…
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The Inept Transformation of the Polish Energy Industry
The Polish government is caught between its own illusions about the richness of Poland’s coal reserves and pressure from the European Union to move away from coal as quickly as possible.
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Russia Veers Green: from Petro-state to Eco-power
Russia has resisted formulating its own green agenda, putting itself in a position of playing catch-up with the West. The country needs to acknowledge and incorporate the world’s inevitable energy…
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William Kristol: On Foreign Affairs, Biden is Better than Obama and Trump
It’s such a cliche that Americans don’t know anything about the world and don’t care about the world. A very high number of Americans have fought in wars and served abroad in the…
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What Should We Expect on Europe and China from the New German Government?
Central to the new German Europe strategy, as both Scholz and Baerbock have repeatedly acknowledged, will be the relationship with France, and especially President Emmanuel Macron.
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Streams Falling Into One River: A Threat to Democracy
The American political system is in the most serious crisis in decades, argue Ivan Hodac and Rüdiger Lentz in a double interview with Łukasz Pawłowski. The roots of this crisis go much deeper, they…
