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Senior editor, the Economist. Formerly of Los Angeles, Brussels and Berlin. Polycrisis veteran, music nut.
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Ukraine is now Europe’s war. Survival can’t be the only aim
6 hours ago Drivers in Russian-controlled Crimea were grappling with gasoline rationing on Monday after Ukrainian drone attacks constricted road supplies across south-eastern Ukraine, Reuters witnesses and officials said. More than four years since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing almost daily …
Regulated Liability Network: the future of the UK market | Baringa
New digital finance technologies such as distributed ledgers, tokenisation and crypto-assets pose a challenge to our current financial ecosystem and the concept of sovereign money. In response, regulators have been monitoring how the technologies are being used, with a need to protect financial market stability and promote consumer safety. The regulated liability network (RLN) concept provides an alternative approach.
Blockchain Opportunities for Treasury – disruptive solutions or additional risks? | Baringa
There is no doubt that the current macro and microeconomic environment means increased focus on interest rates and inflation and subsequently treasury and liquidity management have risen in the priority list for businesses. As part of technology transformation, the digitisation of assets (tokenisation and programmable assets) and adoption of enterprise grade blockchains have created a multitude of opportunities to create new processes, services, and business models.
Zijn de strenge Europese begrotingsregels nog houdbaar?
De Europese Unie moet haar begrotingsregels een update geven, maar gemakkelijk wordt dat niet. De reactie van Europa op de financiële crisis van 2010-2012 was een lange reeks misstappen. De eurozone ging akkoord om de reddingspakketten te financieren met een streng bezuinigingsbeleid en de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB) verhoogde de rente op het slechtst mogelijke moment.
Hoe de nieuwe Duitse coalitieregering haar draai zal moeten vinden
Voor het eerst in zestien jaar heeft iemand anders dan Angela Merkel in Duitsland de touwtjes in handen. In 2022 steekt Duitsland van wal met een vernieuwd bestuur, en niet alleen omdat voor het eerst in zestien jaar iemand anders dan Angela Merkel de touwtjes in handen zal hebben. Meer dan zes decennia lang werd Duitsland bestuurd door coalities van twee partijen.
Wer wird Deutschlands nächster Kanzler? Das Ende der Ära Merkel beunruhigt viele Deutschen
Deutsche Regierungschefs sind für gewöhnlich lange im Amt. Konrad Adenauer war 14 Jahre lang westdeutscher Kanzler, Helmut Kohl brachte es auf 16 Jahre. Angela Merkel, die im November 2005 ins Amt kam und nach der Bundestagswahl im Herbst 2021 abtreten wird, könnte all ihre Vorgänger überdauern, falls sich die Koalitionsgespräche bis Mitte Dezember hinziehen.
The Road to Nazism – Air Mail
The Third Reich’s biggest achievement, writes historian Peter Fritzsche, “was getting Germans to see themselves as the Nazis did.” The Road to Nazism By Tom Nuttall Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche In early February a political earthquake struck Thuringia, a small East German state widely regarded as flyover territory.
Im Schlummermodus: Verliert Deutschland 2020 seine Rolle als Politikmotor?
In Deutschland werden 2020 einige alte Gewissheiten auf die Probe gestellt. Die exportabhängige Wirtschaft wird mit der Rezession flirten. Die amerikanische Ordnungsmacht, die Deutschland zu großem Wohlstand und Sicherheit verholfen hat, wird sich mehr und mehr zurückziehen. Ein Land, das auf Offenheit aufgebaut ist, muss sich anpassen an eine Welt, die sich verschließt.
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Books in brief: The Other Air Force
The Other Air Force by Matt Sienkiewicz (Rutgers University Press, £22.93) “America is not a subtle nation,” says Matt Sienkiewicz in the opening line of this powerful and illuminating work (perhaps an acute judgement given the election result.) Especially so, he adds with admirable understatement, “in the worlds of media production and Middle East policy.” The book looks at the attempt of US media policy to support Washington’s goals in the Middle East.
Books in brief: The Habsburg Empire
The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter M Judson (Harvard University Press, £25) A century after its collapse, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is still often portrayed as a backwater of Europe, doomed to be torn apart by fiery nationalists. This view is contested in The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter M Judson, a professor of history at the European University Institute in Florence.
The Middle East and North Africa need the gig economy
A region in which two-thirds of the population are under 30 should be dynamic and ready to embrace the technological changes reshaping the world’s economy. Yet, despite increasing global interconnectedness, the Middle East and North Africa have the world’s highest levels of youth unemployment. Only around one in five of the region’s women are employed, far behind the global average.
Migrants or refugees?
Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, says the “overwhelming majority” of migrants in Europe are not refugees but are merely seeking a better life. Robert Fico, his Slovak counterpart, says up to 95% are economic migrants. David Cameron, the British PM, is more decorous in his language, but always speaks of Britain’s duties to “genuine” asylum-seekers, with the implication that plenty of migrants do not match that description.
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Esperanto: the language that never was
Read more: How words shape our world The Komedia Kvizo had started. Perhaps this would be instructive. I had hoped to get to the heart of the matter straight away. I had hoped to re-examine the biggest question of our times—the European Union referendum—but to come at it from deep within the pan-European hinterlands of Remainia.
How Gülen triumphed
When Prospect and Foreign Policy drew up our list of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals a few weeks ago, none of us expected a Turkish Sufi cleric, barely known in the west, to sweep to victory. Nor did we expect every name in the top ten would be from a Muslim background.
If I ruled the world: Karl Ove Knausgaard
If I ruled the world, the first thing I would do is tackle environmental issues. There is interest in exploring drilling opportunities in the Arctic which is, as far as I can see, completely unnecessary. An accident could ruin one of the last untouched areas in the world. I’m from Norway and so I feel very emotional about this. In fact, I would stop drilling for oil full stop. The whole idea of an oil-driven society is a bad one.
The descent of Edward Wilson
When he received the manuscript of The Origin of Species, John Murray, the publisher, sent it to a referee who suggested that Darwin should jettison all that evolution stuff and concentrate on pigeons.
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