uk election
Starmer has a thumping election win – what does it mean for the UK and world?
This is a historic moment in British politics. It’s a huge win for Labour. It’s a historic loss for the Conservatives. It also seems to have been the ...
Julian Assange
“Enough is enough”: How Australia’s quiet diplomacy led Julian Assange to freedom
After Julian Assange was released by a court on the remote U.S. Pacific territory of Saipan on Wednesday, ending a 14-year legal battle, the WikiLeaks founder’s lawyer first ...
Lies, damned lies and dodgy data: Voting in South Africa
From deepfake Donald Trumps endorsing key contenders, to claims the vote was rigged, South Africa is awash with online disinformation as political players thrash out a coalition deal after an ...
Super-rich may quit UK over Labour plans for inheritance taxes on trusts
Private banks and advisers to Britain’s super-rich say some clients may quit the country if Labour wins next month’s general election and pushes ahead with plans to abolish ...
UK ELECTIONS
UK politicians’ election pledges can’t stop rising tax burden
Britain’s next government will find it near-impossible to stop tax levels approaching an all-time high, despite an election campaign in which both major parties have promised not to increase ...
ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE
EU’s new AI rules ignite battle over data transparency
A new set of laws governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union will force companies to be more transparent about the data used to train their ...
Europe’s far right seeks policy influence to match seat gains
Europe’s nationalist parties capitalised in the European Parliament election on voter disquiet over spiralling prices, migration and the cost of the green transition and will now seek to translate ...
Cities contain pockets of nature – study shows which species are most tolerant of urbanisation
By Joseph Curti and Morgan Tingley
The Earth is losing animals, plants and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering its sixth mass extinction. ...
Pope Francis
Pope’s friends, observers try to make sense of homophobic PR disaster
Francis is a pope of many firsts: the first to use that name, the first from Latin America, the first from the Jesuit religious order. Since last week, he’s ...
Analysis: For Trump’s false records conviction, prison is rare but not unprecedented
Now that the jury in Donald Trump’s criminal trial has made the historic decision to convict him, the judge overseeing the case will soon face a monumental choice: whether ...
EU ELECTIONS
Once ostracised, Italy’s Meloni is now centre stage in Europe
When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took power in 2022, far-right parties across Europe hailed her victory, expecting the fiery new leader in Rome to pursue a nationalist agenda and battle ...
Behind Biden’s Israel weapons pause: A defiant Netanyahu
By Steve Holland
US President Joe Biden spent months urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protect Gaza civilians, but the US decision to pause some military aid to Israel ...
Imamoglu, the Turkish mayor most likely to challenge Erdogan’s rule
Newly re-elected Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has emerged as the main challenger to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s reign. But in some ways, he is following in the footsteps of ...
Disillusioned, disappointed and angry
Inside the Democratic rebellion against Biden over Gaza
By Andrea Shalal, Nandita Bose and Kat Stafford
The depth of Democratic Party anger over President Joe Biden’s handling of the ...
Europe’s angry farmers fuel backlash against EU ahead of elections
In the last 12 months, the cost of running Jean-Marie Dirat’s lamb farm in southwest France has jumped by 35,000 euros ($38,000), driven up by increasingly expensive fertilisers, fuel, electricity and pesticides.
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AI defined 2023. Bullets and ballots will shape 2024
How to sum up the most important news of the year past? The obvious answer in 2023 is to use Artificial Intelligence. In that spirit, I asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT and ...
Green energy transition outlook on the road to COP28
By Charles Ellinas
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in September a review of the energy transition progress on meeting the Paris Agreement goals, referred to as ...
Uncomfortable partnership: Gaza takes centre stage during Erdogan’s visit to Germany
They have opposing views on Israel’s war with Hamas and conflicting attitudes to Moscow since the invasion of Ukraine, but when Germany and Turkey’s leaders meet in Berlin ...
There is no such thing as normality for the Greek economy
By Maria Demertzis
On 20 October, S&P Global Ratings raised the Greek economy’s credit rating back to investment grade. That was seen by many, in Greece and beyond, ...
The CoLA dilemma: ensuring economic stability amidst an inflation crisis
By Louis N. Christofides
Workers’ earnings in a firm reflect the contribution of labour to the firm’s output, meaning their productivity.
Earnings are expressed in nominal terms (e.g., ...
EU nears first legal framework on artificial intelligence
By Stefanos Sofroniou
The first ever legal framework on Artificial Intelligence could be agreed upon by the EU legislators as soon as this December. The draft Regulation proposed by the ...
Capital markets union, or else what?
By Maria Demertzis
The EU will need 600 billion additional net investments every year from now to 2050 to meet its climate objectives. It also needs strategic investments to digitalise its economies, ...
War in the Middle East and its broader implications
By Ioannis Tirkides
The killing of innocents and of non-combatants cannot be acceptable, and the Hamas attack of October 7, no matter its origins, has been an atrocious war crime. But ...
EU climate divisions give foretaste of fight looming at COP28
A hard-won deal on the European Union’s negotiating stance for this year’s U.N. climate talks has revealed regional rifts that anticipate global tensions at the COP28 summit.
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