Hard times.
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From hospital waiting lists to suicide rates, here’s how cuts affected health in Ireland and Greece.
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How the shifting debate on Europe has been portrayed – or not – in UK popular culture.
Migrants arrive at the Austrian-German border near Passau, October 2015.
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Less than two years after Europe’s migrant crisis began, EU officials have said that the situation is under control. It’s not
Krasinski Square in Warsaw, Poland just before Trump’s speech.
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A historian who studies Poland witnesses the president’s visit to Warsaw, and casts a skeptical eye at the crowd that took in the president’s speech.
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All over the world people who have been harmed by the conventional money systems are devising alternative currencies, challenging the centralised monetary policy approach.
A tanker ship heads into Liverpool harbour as a pilot boats heads out. In the background. In the background, the Burbo Bank wind farm. While new facilities have increased capacity, the UK currently imports 6% of its electricity.
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A year after Brexit, experts from the Grenoble École de Management and the Centre for European Economic Research look at what impacts the UK’s leaving the EU could have on energy prices and security.
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To some it seems like the most sensible option, but it would antagonise the hard Brexiteers.
Unlike the European Parliament, the Pan African Parliament does not have supranational law-making powers.
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For real integration to happen, the Pan African Parliament needs to be imbued with supranational law-making powers. But national sovereignty is something that many states are reluctant to give up.
Worrying times.
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When the political becomes personal.
Migrants are being rescued by members of the “Proactiva open arms” NGO, off the coast of the Island of Lesbos (Greece).
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Accused of cooperating with smugglers, NGOs defend migrants’ right to life and point to the inadequate policies of European states.
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A warning from Athens about facing political headwinds with a government barely worth the name.
A treaty on citizens’ rights would reassure a lot of worried people.
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A treaty on citizens’ rights in a moral obligation and legally possible too.
Jean-Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier: ready whenever you are.
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The balance of power in Brexit talks is firmly with the EU.
Sparks fly: workers produce steel at a small plant in Shenyang, northeast China.
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Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.
Poland’s first liquefied natural gas terminal, in the Baltic port of Swinoujscie,, under construction in 2014.
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Can Poland reduce its dependence on cheap and dirty domestic coal power?
Chancellor Merkel and former U.S. President Obama at the German Protestant ‘Kirchentag’, Berlin, May 2017.
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With the US administration sending isolationist signals, Germany stands to gain from the global power vacuum.
Markets like to know who’s coming and going.
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Markets hate uncertainty and the economic data reflects the turbulent nature of British politics.
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If there’s political will, Britain could retain its membership of the single market – or it could crash out without a deal.
Who knows?
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June 9, 2017
James Tilley , University of Oxford ; Ben Williams , University of Salford ; Daniel Fitzpatrick , Aston University ; John Garry , Queen's University Belfast ; Kathryn Simpson , Manchester Metropolitan University ; Laura McAllister , Cardiff University ; Matthew Cole , University of Birmingham ; Michael Kitson , Cambridge Judge Business School ; Neil Matthews , University of Bristol ; Parveen Akhtar , Aston University ; Richard Murphy , City, University of London ; Robin Pettitt , Kingston University ; Stuart Wilks-Heeg , University of Liverpool , and William McDougall , Glasgow Caledonian University
Rolling coverage of the general election results from expert academics.
On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that he would take the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and that he could negotiate a “better deal”.
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On June 1, Donald Trump announced that he would take the US out of the Paris climate agreement because it was “unfair” to the US. An economic analysis indicates otherwise.