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Wednesday, 31 July 2019

IMF and the EU's ambivalence

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The best people that could compete for the leadership of the IMF, following Christine Lagarde's departure, are not from Europe. They ...
Monday, 29 July 2019

No Deal, soon in a street near you

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31 October is not too far away. But it is far enough for us to be able to say what is going to happen to the UK’s Brexit. However, it sho...
Sunday, 28 July 2019

The extreme urgency of addressing environmental matters

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If there is anything this Summer is teaching us, I would say it is about the urgency of addressing climate change. It has been an abnorma...
Friday, 26 July 2019

Boris and the crime agenda

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As he stepped into his new job of Prime Minister, Boris Johnson promised to recruit 20,000 additional police officers. That number matche...
Thursday, 25 July 2019

Tunisia and its President

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Early in the day, Beji Caid Essebsi, the President of Tunisia, passed away at the age of ninety-two. It would be unjust not to write a wo...
Wednesday, 24 July 2019

A type of leadership

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He knows about theatrics and smoke screens. He is also an expert on mirrors and emotional words, grandiloquence. That works in politics. ...
Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Boris Johnson is in charge

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From a diplomatic perspective, the European leaders can only wish every success to Boris Johnson. He won the leadership of his Conservati...
Monday, 22 July 2019

The Hormuz crisis must be taken very seriously

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The outgoing British Cabinet – a new team will take over on Wednesday, once the new Prime Minister is confirmed – resp...
Sunday, 21 July 2019

Hormuz: to avert further deterioration

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As we start the last week of July, we must be profoundly aware that the situation around the Strait of Hormuz represents an extraordinary...
Saturday, 20 July 2019

New approaches to the Armed Forces

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This week, we were engaged in a discussion about the future shape and configuration of the armed forces in contexts such as those we find...