There has been much talk recently about the ‘unacceptable’ rates of economic inactivity among UK workers. ‘A country of shirkers’ seems to risk becoming the…
There has been much talk recently about the ‘unacceptable’ rates of economic inactivity among UK workers. ‘A country of shirkers’ seems to risk becoming the…
You don’t have to remember the global role of presidents like Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Nixon or Reagan to know that the President of the United…
Our chart of the month shows export performance of the major European economies over the last 10 years. What does it show? Of course, as…
This month our chart of the month looks at some aspects of discrimination on the basis of race across some European countries. First of all…
Events such as the Great Financial Crash, the Covid Pandemic and the war in Ukraine have affected all countries around the globe. Other events such…
Visibly in great shape, Vladimir Putin visited the historical exhibition ‘Peter the Great: the birth of the Empire’ in Moscow on 9 June. The great tsar,…
Fifty years ago this week, an image went around the world. Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt was on a visit to Warsaw, the first by a…
This article appeared in CityAM Europe has been left behind in Big Tech. The scene is overwhelmingly dominated by US companies, with China potentially coming…
Seemingly calling into question the hierarchy of legal norms within the European Union (EU), the decision of the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on 5…
This article has also been published on Vvox (in Italian) and Agenda Publica (Spanish) The Covid-19 pandemic has represented a destructive explosion at the heart…
“One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts,” said Benjamin Franklin. As we…
In this issue we make the point, again, that international trade and globalization issues are primarily about politics not about economics Despite its relative economic…