A solution staring us in the face for Europe’s housing crisis
In this legislative mandate, there are many expectations for housing. The EU Commission has appointed its first-ever commissioner for energy and housing, and Ursula…
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Europe in the line of fire as Trump threatens trade war with China
Trump’s punitive tariffs would put Brussels under pressure to cut a defensive deal to fend off a glut of Chinese exports. Forget about Donald…
EU tries to get closer to South America with trade deal
The European Union has signed a trade deal with four of South America’s biggest economies. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen called the…
EU-US Cooperation on China and Taiwan
The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia…
Playing political footsie with Trump 2.0 won’t cut it for Europe. It’s time to get tough
The world must prepare for a US president who will be even more chaotic and less open to diplomacy and compromise than before Sucking…
Turkish, US defense chiefs discuss Syria, regional security
Yasar Guler, Lloyd Austin also discuss bilateral issues, according to Türkiye’s National Defense Ministry Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler and US Defense Secretary Lloyd…
Fall of Damascus sidelines Russia and brings Turkey to the fore
As Moscow’s top diplomat reeled in Doha, his Turkish counterpart appeared to know he had the upper hand As celebratory gunfire was heard across…
Trump is unlikely to change direction for Ukraine
Donald Trump on the sidelines in France where he attended the re-opening of a change of direction of U.S. involvement in helping NATO and…
I’ve never been keen on turkey. Now my aversion is approaching outright loathing
The Christmas bird has now been financially weaponised I’m calling this column “Turkey, Revisited”, after “Toads, Revisited” by Philip Larkin, a poet who was…
Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think
Russia’s resurrected military industrial complex is cannibalising the rest of its economy Ukraine is slowly losing the three-year conflict on the battlefield. Russia is…