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The EU should bend the One China policy

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By Julien Libert
| Centre for European Policy Studies
51 Views There isn’t one China, but two, and both are now very different countries, with some common cultural traits from a shared distant past. Alas, the current One China policy, followed by the EU and the US, prevents the two – the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan) – from being officially distinguished from each other. Yet Taiwan has become the world’s 21st largest economy, thus almost a G20 country.
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Biodiversity will determine a country’s creditworthiness – and that’s why they need to start pricing it in now

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By Julien Libert
| Centre for European Policy Studies
204 Views Financial markets price all kinds of risks. But there’s one they ignore: how nature loss affects governments’ ability to pay their debts. Sovereign debt is the world’s largest asset class, yet economies suffer from the loss of forests, fisheries, pollinators and fresh water. However, credit ratings barely take this into account. That blind spot skews how creditworthiness is assessed and disregards a growing risk to financial stability.
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After 30 years of failure, the EU must enforce animal welfare law in pig meat production

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By Julien Libert
| Centre for European Policy Studies
36 Views More than 30 years after the EU first banned routine tail docking (the painful removal of tails, typically without anaesthetics) on piglets, only Finland and Sweden comply with the law. Across the rest of the EU, an average of 77 % of piglets are still routinely mutilated – with figures hitting 95 % to 100 % in top producers like Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Denmark.
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