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To China or not to China, that is the…

Now, that COVID-19 occupies only about half of the front page, the EU has finally time to focus on a very Hamletian dilemma: To...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 8, 2020 6 min read

The EU is in a time loop, sort of…

In the well-known 1993 American comedy, Groundhog Day, the protagonist, a TV news anchor, is sent to Punxsutawney to cover the annual Groundhog Day...

Marta Loeb
Jun 5, 2020 4 min read

Failure of the Swedish model

Sweden has been trying to hide the consequences of its disastrous COVID-19 response for too long. The country’s strategy is a clear failure; Sweden...

Leslie Zelinka
May 28, 2020 4 min read

A New Crisis in the Making

Maltese authorities and FRONTEX have warned that the Central Mediterranean route saw a 438 percent jump in terms of illegal migration in the first...

Christopher Tapp
May 24, 2020 3 min read

The COVID-19 and the environment

The favorite closing scene of every pro-environmentalist blockbuster (think The Day After Tomorrow) is the self-healing of Mother Earth. A giant shockwave or a...

Marta Loeb
May 18, 2020 4 min read

Entering the guessing game: predictions about the future of…

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter Drucker Celebrating the first digital/virtual Easter ever in silence...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 27, 2020 3 min read

Still time to learn from our 2009 mistakes –…

It’s not a big surprise that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen heavily criticized the lack of solidarity between member states during the...

Marta Loeb
Apr 20, 2020 4 min read

The Olympics postponed. What comes next?

Only three Olympic Games were cancelled since 1896. Ever. All of them (1916, 1940, 1944) because of a World War. (1940 should have been...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 8, 2020 2 min read

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