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Back to SearchPawel Jablonski: Why is Poland blocking the EU's budget?
The EU is facing an internal political crisis. Two members, Poland and Hungary, are blocking the passage of a new budget and a post-Covid recovery pa…
5 years, 9 months ago
Judit Varga: How far is Hungary prepared to go in its defiance of the EU?
The EU has long threatened to punish the populist nationalist government in Hungary for a failure to uphold core EU values. So far the threats have b…
5 years, 10 months ago
Arancha Gonzalez: How much influence does the EU have?
In the midst of of a pandemic which has inflicted severe damage on the European economy, it is tempting to see the US election victory of Joe Biden a…
5 years, 10 months ago
HR McMaster: Trump and the transition
Donald Trump hasn’t yet accepted it, but he’ll be out of the White House in January next year. Gone but not forgotten. His legacy can be seen in a di…
5 years, 10 months ago
Jack Kingston: What is next for Trump?
Donald Trump can't and won't bring himself to concede that he lost the Presidential election. Amid the talk of legal challenges in a slew of states t…
5 years, 10 months ago
Leopoldo Lopez: An opposition leader in exile
The socialist government of Venezuela presides over an economy in meltdown and a population desperate for change. Yet the country's opposition has fa…
5 years, 10 months ago
Jacob Bleacher: Putting astronauts back on the moon
Scientists have discovered water on the sunlit surface of the Moon for the first time. Does it matter? Well, maybe it does. The Moon is back in vogue…
5 years, 10 months ago
Perez Hilton: The 2000s' gossip-in-chief
Gossip, scurrilous rumour, a fascination with the flaws of the rich and famous: these human foibles are as old as the hills, but the age of the inter…
5 years, 10 months ago
Jim Clyburn: Can Biden win?
According to the polls Joe Biden is strong favourite to be the next President of the United States. But the party’s leaders bear deep scars from 2016…
5 years, 10 months ago
Dominique Schnapper on secularism in France after Samuel Paty's killing
The beheading of a teacher by an 18-year-old outside Paris struck a particularly jarring blow to the French psyche. Samuel Paty was murdered for teac…
5 years, 10 months ago