Opinion
When the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to work in No. 10 last Monday morning after a month battling coronavirus, Downing Street officials were quick to point out that he had a very full ‘IN’ basket to deal with.How true indeed. And thankfully Boris had a re...
What strange times we live in. Unprecedented. Unsure. Where givens are turned upside down. Yes, coronavirus is one element. But a time when commodity traders will pay you to take oil their oil. A fuel without energy, a commodity without value, a baseline index worth less than if every barrel of oil ...
Old farmers used to have a saying: ‘When the sun is shining, make hay.’ And in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is doing just that. Coronavirus has presented the most right-wing leader in the European Union (EU) with a gilt-edged opportunity to expand his already considerable powers ...
Many Germans never remember a time when their nation wasn’t led by Angela Merkel. Most would need to remember when the only virus that mattered wasn’t Covid-19 but the Y2K millennium bug and mobile phones were only starting to be used for textual relations.But within the next year, the G...
When more than a billion Chinese gathered to celebrate their New Year in late January, no one had ever heard of Covid-19. And while public health officials in Wuhan were imposing strict quarantine measures, shutting down the city and prolonging the celebrations for the Year of the Rat, no one had an...
Finally — after three deadline extensions, two prime ministers and 1,274 days of political wrangling — come January 31, the United Kingdom will have left the European Union.But that’s not the end of Brexit. Come February 1, negotiators from both sides will be working on a free-trad...
By this time next year, we will know the outcome of the presidential election race in the United States. Will Donald Trump, only the third president of that nation to be impeached, brush off the charges of using his office to have Ukraine interfere in America’s politics and obstruction of the ...
Brexit, Brexit and more Brexit. That’s the issue that has dominated Europe for 2019. And while the United Kingdom was supposed to leave the European Union (EU) at midnight on March 30, now nine months later, it still remains in the EU.But not for long, with a fresh mandate and a large majority...
On a miserably misty morning earlier this week, I drove down the backroads of northwest Ireland, traversing seamlessly between the counties of Sligo, Donegal, Leitrim and Fermanagh.Autumn had left the hedgerows and trees, winter being felt by the weary cattle and soaked sheep. Over a small ston...
Brexit, Brexit, Brexit. Nothing but Brexit for the past three years. And now that the deadline of October 31 is looming and the no-deal scenario seems ever the more likely after the shenanigans in London earlier this week, there’s talk of that leaving deadline being pushed to next summer &mdas...
It’s the last weekend of June and that, in Brussels every five years, means that it’s time for the leaders of the 28 European Union nations to gather — yes, British Prime Minister Theresa May will be there in name only — to decide on the most pressing subject for the next fiv...
Right now, the votes are all but tallied up and down the United Kingdom to elect 55 new Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Whether those MEPs will sit for three months, six months or two years has yet to be decided — but what is known for sure is that Nigel Farage, the leader of...
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