The Swiss government’s recent withdrawal from long-running negotiations on a framework agreement with the European Union has triggered a deep crisis in relations. For the EU, the fallout is manageable: economic relations will erode but …
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It’s said that politics makes for strange bedfellows. In diplomacy, it would seem that it’s seating arrangements that can be tricky. At a 6 April meeting of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and …
Covid-19 has wounded almost every developed country, but the truth is that living standards in many of them had been stagnating or declining for years. Many metrics highlight this trend, but perhaps the most telling …
Early last month, China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, officially approved the country’s 14th five-year plan. The strategy was supposed to demonstrate that China has a long-term economic vision that will enable it to …
On 9 March, the European Commission presented its vision for a European ‘digital decade’. With policy targets for 2030 focusing on the four cardinal issues of skills, infrastructure and capacities, public services, and the digitalisation …