Despite relatively tense political relations between the European Union and Azerbaijan, Brussels is aiming to strengthen energy cooperation with Baku. In an attempt to end its dependency on Russian...
Over some years, China has been increasing its economic and political presence in Eastern Europe, as well as in former Soviet republics in Central Asia. But in Belarus, despite rhetoric about great...
For the third time in 13 years, the Venezuelan regime has resorted to a currency reconversion to cover the growing hyperinflation that is suffocating the country. The measure will take effect on...
Tim Jackson, University of Surrey Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, laments the Rocket Man in Elton John’s timeless classic. In fact, it’s cold as hell. But that doesn’t seem...
Guy Standing, SOAS, University of London Wales has become the latest country to explore the idea of a universal basic income, which gives every adult a fixed amount of money, regardless of their...
The inauguration of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States promises a more competent and less contentious approach to foreign affairs than was the case with his predecessor Donald Trump....
At the end of September, half a year into the pandemic, Smithfield Foods fulfilled a pledge to donate 10 million pounds of animal protein — the equivalent of 40 million servings — to food banks...
“There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.” US Senator...
No one imagined that 2020 would represent one of the greatest challenges for humanity in recent decades. The arrival of Covid-19 destabilized all sectors of the economy and, although many have...
Vox’s Alex Ward, when reporting on the Beirut explosion early last month, noted in passing that Lebanon’s post-civil war economic policy “was to attract investors and tourists, and bolster its...
