The African Continental Free Trade Area is the largest in the world. The World Bank sees it as a means of lifting 30 million people out of extreme poverty. But will it?
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Economic measures are the preferred choice for a country or countries hoping to show they are taking action in a time of international crisis.
In setting new tax on the carbon emissions of goods being imported into the bloc, there are two potential disasters for EU to avoid.
National procedures for approving the financing of the European recovery plan are delaying its implementation. But the horizon seems to be clearing.
EU trade partnership is more important to some African countries than regional or continental trade.
UN and NGO reports of ‘pushbacks’ at borders suggest 2,000 deaths linked to actions supported by EU border agency Frontex, yet EU plans to greatly expand its powers.
To achieve sustainable growth under the constraint that consumption is independent from the use of natural resources, we must move along the path of qualitative growth.
We’d lose coal exports but benefit from a lower Australian dollar.
Two energy and climate policy experts take a closer look at the Leaders Summit on Climate, the US pledge and today’s industrial reality.
Rising protectionism has the potential to have major negative effects on many European companies, yet firms have been largely absent from the public conversation. Why?
A new survey serves up a tall order for UK agricultural policy outside the EU.
It’s meant to stop what’s known as ‘carbon leakage’ – when production moves elsewhere to avoid climate policies – but the solution has economic, legal and environmental consequences.
The Covid-19 pandemic raises the question of the precariousness of foreigners dependent on social assistance in Switzerland - a precariousness that is still growing.
Those who talk down an independent Scotland’s prospects are not factoring in one of its biggest natural resources.
Western leaders learned the hard way 25 years ago that conflict in the Balkans can become ethnic cleansing. Add Russia into the mix, and Montenegro’s new problems are US and European problems, too.
Both sides can make a case, but they might not get the chance.
At the end of the 1925 movie ‘Red Kimono,’ the protagonist, Gabrielle Darley, throws away her garment and moves on to a better life. Real life is more complicated.
Around 75% of fishermen in the Outer Hebrides speak Gaelic. Their daily use of the language at work helps keep it alive.
Italy’s decision to block export of AstraZeneca vaccines to Australia will likely not impact our vaccine roll-out. But vaccine scarcity is a looming problem in other parts of the world.
A recent survey conducted in eight European countries provides a snapshot of citizens’ views of their own countries’ leaders as well as those who influence the future of the EU.
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University
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Senior Professorial Lecturer, Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center, American University School of International Service
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Reader in European Politics, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer in European Politics, University of Bristol
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Head of Department of Politics, University of Surrey
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Professor of Law, King's College London
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Professor of European Politics, Queen's University Belfast
