A Green Recovery
Government policy faces various challenges. Before the COVID-19 outbreak, the European Union set ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions. Now in the midst of...
The EU in Crisis? A Pragmatist’s Take
The European Union has always been both a topic and the subject of polarisation. On the one hand is the supposedly idealistic pro-EU camp,...
Technology Now! Lessons learned from COVID19 and What’s Next
2020 is a survival-mode year. Our reality has more similarities to the movie Contagion, than an-yone would have ever imagined. Still, being in the...
Looking for the White Knight
A crisis can be a great eye-opener showing how much of what we believe is true. In recent memory, the EU has seen four...
China’s Hostage Diplomacy
As the COVID-19 crisis continues, policy makers wonder what sort of world we shall inherit once it’s over. There is no doubt we should...
Quarantine and/or Geopolitical Checkmate?
The COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over and the magnitude of the economic crisis resulting from the confinement measures that States had to adopt...
The China Hunt
The ongoing debate on the coronavirus crisis is bound to include an investigation into the causes of the pandemic and all factors that played...
The West Must Stand Confident and United Against the Chinese Threat
With great power comes great responsibility. No government on Earth have established a stronger and more totalitarian control over its society than the Chinese...
The Black Swan of 2020
According to the United Nations, Covid-19 has cost the global economy $50 billion in just exports in February alone. A recent Bloomberg estimate sees...
Reimagining History’s Path
In Laurent Binet’s latest alternate history novel, Civilizations, pandemics are used as a device that propel the narrative forward. It is antibodies that allow...