What is a White Paper? Quaintly named after the colour of its original binding, a ‘White Paper’ is a document that sets out a summary of the Government’s overall approach to an issue, together with […]
NATO’s annual summit will take place in Brussels on 11 – 12 July 2018. Thereafter Donald Trump will arrive for his UK visit on Friday 13 July and will then fly to Helsinki to hold […]
In the last few hours Mexican voters have reaped the rewards of their determination to change the country’s political landscape. The popular leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, also known as Amlo, has claimed victory in […]
‘When I talk with young activists from Hong Kong, they are increasingly demoralised. They have taken to the streets to call for their democratic rights but have been met with repression; repression facilitated by colonial […]
The governments of Greece and (the former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia have at last reached agreement on their long-running dispute about the latter country’s name. There was a constructive meeting earlier in the year between […]
Today, the on-again, off-again summit between the erratic premiers of the USA and North Korea finally took place. The scene was set on Singapore’s Sentosa island as the star-spangled banner hung next to the Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi. […]
The Group of 7 met this weekend for their annual summit in Quebec. It will have been hard to miss. Global leaders had managed, over the course of the weekend, to come up with wording […]
Why has there been a change of Prime Minister in Spain? The new Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, who had previously been leader of the largest opposition party, was sworn in by the King […]
In James Politi’s article for the Financial Times, he delves into the reasoning behind the Five Star Movement and League party’s backing of a little-known university academic to be the country’s new prime minister: namely that […]
With a US decision on the continuation of the Iran Nuclear Deal 12th May 2018 imminent, Macron and Merkel fly out to the US this week to convince Trump to remain. Many people think that […]
