Two trillion euros, in fact. Such huge financial injections into EU economies can come with well-documented risks of embezzlement, corruption and corporate capture of public money (Photo: Michal Jarmoluk) At over two trillion euros, the long term EU budget and…
Cross-border money flows have boomed this century – unless you want to give it away (Photo: snorski) This season of gifts is a time to reflect on the joy of giving and on the good that we can do for…
Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 2019 (Photo: etan liam) On Sunday, the Hong Kong SAR regime is set to appoint a parliament packed full of communist party loyalists in the city’s first general election since Beijing’s overhaul of the electoral…
Several inherent risks of nuclear energy, from the disaster potential, to waste management over hundreds of thousands of years, or uranium mining, were not properly addressed in the report commissioned by the European Commission (Photo: IAEA Imagebank) After a year-long…
Bosnia and Herzegovina is an extremely fascinating, but complex country and difficult to govern. Only reason and dialogue can avert further humanitarian tragedy in the region (Photo: World Bank Photo Collection) The EU’s new High Representative, Christian Schmidt, cut to…
‘The internal problems of the EaP countries and external threats posed to them by Russia will, if unchecked, lead to backsliding – if not worse' (Photo: Pixabay) Recently growing tensions in eastern Europe, such the Belarusian-Polish border and migration crisis…