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As the Middle East lurches into another high-intensity confrontation, the British government is trying to hold two ideas in the public mind at the...
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Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanţa is seeing a lot of action these days as the authorities are testing a new generation of anti-drone...
Hermes European Study Centre today (2 October) applauded a new Austrian-led proposal calling for a dedicated European Implementation and Consolidation Year. Hermes also applauds...
By Siddharth Chatterjee As the Global Development Initiative turns five, a former UN Resident Coordinator in China and Kenya reflects on why it matters,...
Kazakhstan is entering a sustained period of infrastructure investment, and the scale of the programme is drawing a widening group of investors and operators,...
As the Middle East lurches into another high-intensity confrontation, the British government is trying to hold two ideas in the public mind at the...
On March 2, 2026, Mikhail Gorbachev would have turned 95. Today, when Europe and Russia seem divided by an unbridgeable chasm and threats are...
A fierce policy debate over the European Union’s Tobacco Excise Directive (TED) reopened a few weeks ago as the European Economic and Social Committee...
Brussels is urging “maximum restraint” and diplomacy — but the immediate EU exposure is economic (oil and trade routes), operational (Red Sea naval protection)...
Amid a swirl of rumours that he would be replaced, Bangladesh’s central bank governor, Ahsan Mansur, abruptly and unceremoniously left his post this week....
Cyprus has emerged as an unexpected pivot point in negotiations over the European Union’s long-awaited Tobacco Excise Directive (TED) overhaul, after proposing limits on...
The next phase of Bangladesh’s story began last week with the landslide election of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Following his victory, Prime Minister Tarique...
Brussels is bracing for a fresh confrontation over “sin taxes”, as Europe’s nicotine, alcohol and processed-food sectors mobilise behind the scenes in response to...
A new poll underscores a clear message from Greenland: the vast majority of its people oppose becoming part of the United States, reaffirming the...
Last week a bombshell report on U.S.-Bangladeshi relations dropped in the Washington Post. Leaked audio revealed a U.S. diplomat based in Dhaka saying that...