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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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.
Electoral posters of a candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Marseille, France.
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Emmanuel Macron may have won the presidential election, but his agenda could fail if his party doesn’t get a majority in Parliament.
Border control is a big election issue.
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Migration from Eastern Europe spurred support for Brexit. But now migration is falling and the economy will suffer.
One day after Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the Paris accord on climate, EU and China issued a statement from Brussels that climate change and clean energy ‘will become a main pillar’ of their bilateral partnership.
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Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement strains international relations further and strengthens the resolve of other countries to move forward on climate without the US.
Merkel consider her options after meeting with Trump on May 26, 2017, in Italy.
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For more than seven decades, US presidents have encouraged peace in Europe. Trump seems eager to toss that legacy aside. Here’s what is at stake.
The Arc de Triomphe Is illuminated in green to celebrate the Paris Agreement’s entry into force.
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Like president George W. Bush before him, Donald Trump made the announcement from the White House Rose Garden, showing that Republican governments have failed to learn past lessons.
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Dublin’s role in global business is threatened by Trump’s tax plans, so the opportunity presented by Britain’s EU exit will have to be snatched with both hands.
Lebanon’s political situation is already a delicate balance. Poverty, distress and increasing numbers of refugees could exacerbate existing tensions and lead to collapse.
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The country’s religion-based power-sharing political system is straining to accommodate hundreds of thousands of new Syrian Sunnis.
UKIP leader Paul Nuttall.
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Immigration targets are based on a lack of understanding of the UK’s labour needs and could seriously damage the economy.
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It’s there … but it changes over time.
The UK’s future trade deals will be subject to EU member state approval.
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It’s likely that a future UK-EU trade deal will be subject to approval by all EU member states and their sub-national parliaments.
An illustrated look inside.
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The U.S. is considering expanding a ban it imposed in March on several Middle Eastern countries to all flights from Europe. A close look suggests the meager benefits just aren’t worth the high costs.