Opinion
Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the UK’s EU exit referendum, yet the nation is still widely perceived not to be “making Brexit work.”This is not just the view of what Brexiteers disparagingly call “Remainiacs” (those who wanted to stay in the EU), but also a gr...
The focus in much of Europe during the summer months often turns toward Spain, the euro zone’s fourth largest economy, given that it is one of the leading tourist destinations in the region. However, two major political events are intensifying the focus on the country this year.Not only is Spa...
Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak have different political philosophies and personas, yet they are both hoping that they can “re-spark” the special relationship after years in the deep freeze.Whereas Biden was first elected to the US Congress in 1972 and is a left-of-center Democrat, Sunak is a ...
One of the standout features of international relations since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been the warming of Western relations with Japan. This was showcased again at last week’s G7 summit, hosted in Hiroshima, which saw a well-organized event lead to a series of key diplomatic out...
The United Kingdom has long had a reputation for competent, stable government with the ‘Westminster model’ of parliamentary democracy widely influential round the world. Yet, the response of Boris Johnson’s administration to the coronavirus crisis has been a master class in sloppy ...
UK Finance Minister Rishi Sunak will deliver on Wednesday a Summer mini-budget outlining the government’s latest fiscal response to the coronavirus crisis. Sunak’s announcement is only the latest attempt by Boris Johnson’s team to go on the political offensive, post-pandemic, ...
Boris Johnson will make this week the toughest decisions of his premiership as he sets out a ‘roadmap’ for the United Kingdom exiting its coronavirus lockdown. While he has much goodwill from the nation after his brush with death, the government is losing public support and much now rest...
European prime ministers and presidents agreed on Friday to revamp the EU’s long-term budget to set up a big recovery fund to combat the economic fallout of the corona crisis. Yet, despite this, the political impact of the crisis continues to rock the bloc in what could yet be an existential c...
Boris Johnson formally kicked off on Friday what he asserts will be the most sweeping UK defence and security review since the end of the Cold War. Yet, while he is eager to explore the potential opportunities of the post-Brexit landscape, the challenges are mounting too.For two of the long-standing...
Boris Johnson asserted Friday that the “Brexit finish line” has been crossed with Parliament passing legislation implementing the nation’s EU withdrawal this week. Yet, while this historic moment looms large, this is not the endgame of Brexit, but the start of a new phase of negoti...
As the New Year begins to unfold, Donald Trump is awaiting his trial in the Senate after becoming only the third US president in history to be impeached. Yet, remarkably he is currently on a potential path to re-election in November, despite his highly controversial three years in the White House, a...
As the New Year approaches, Donald Trump is anxiously awaiting his trial in the Senate after the House of Representatives voted to make him only the third US president ever to be impeached. The impeachment process will shape domestic politics in early 2020, and beyond, yet it will also increasingly ...
Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson held their last head-to-head debate of the UK election campaign on Friday night amid signs that polls are tightening. While the Conservatives are still forecast to emerge as the largest single party in the new House of Commons this week, potentially with only th...
The UK’s major political leaders, including Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, held on Friday night their first television hustings of the general election. What was striking, as has been true across the campaign so far, is lack of substantive discussion of UK foreign policy, beyond Brexit.This ...
Monday sees the kick-off to the first full week of the UK’s sole pre-Christmas general election since 1923. While Boris Johnson pushed hard for the ballot to go ahead before the New Year, it is a huge gamble and could easily backfire given the exceptional unpredictability of contemporary UK po...
Mike Pompeo ends on Monday his latest tour of Asia-Pacific after key stop offs in Thailand and Australia. In the Sydney leg on Saturday and Sunday, a key bilateral agenda item was the future of Five Eyes, one of the world’s most successful intelligence gathering and sharing partnerships, now u...
Donald Trump concluded an important trip to Japan, with a packed political and economic agenda, including preparations for next month’s G20. Yet the primary reason for the visit, from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s viewpoint, has been the opportunity to deepen his personal bond with the mer...
United States President Donald Trump is making final preparations for a multi-day trip to Japan which starts later this week. The White House is currently facing into significant international challenges from Venezuela to Iran. Yet, it is Asia that looms potentially largest after recent setbacks in ...
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe topped off on Saturday a busy diplomatic week after two days with Donald Trump in the United States. The Thursday before, he and top European leaders met in Brussels for the EU-Japan summit which not only deepened their bilateral strategic partnership, but als...
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