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Analysis of today - Assessment of tomorrow | Our goal is to offer a version of today and tomorrow that is lacking of prejudice and is unbiased in any sense
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West Africans should stop pretending that today’s civilian autocracies are a genuine form of democracy - By Kingsley Moghalu
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#Benin #Coup #Nigeria #Sahel
The Benin coup attempt does not bode well for democracy in West Africa
West Africans should stop pretending that today’s civilian autocracies are a genuine form of democracy
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December 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The transformation of trade into a strategic weapon in alignment with U.S. international policies, along with heightened competition among allies, has become clearly recognisable as an element threatening global stability - By
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#Strategy
Monroe Doctrine 2.0 and Possible Economic Effects
The U.S. must find a way to balance its national interests with the need for international collaboration
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December 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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In the sanctions domain, governments learned the hard way that it is better to target specific actors than to impose country-wide restrictions - By Miles Kellerman tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-eus-blac...
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#Sanctions #Russia #moneylaundering
The EU’s blacklisting of Russia closes loopholes and causes collateral damage
In the sanctions domain, governments learned the hard way that it is better to target specific actors than to impose country-wide restrictions
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December 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The chasm between Chilean perspectives on the status quo underscores not only the depth of #Chile 's divisions but also the stakes of Sunday's showdown tomorrowsaffairs.com/chileans-are...
#election2025
Chileans are divided in a presidential runoff on Sunday
The chasm between Chilean perspectives on the status quo underscores not only the depth of Chile's divisions but also the stakes of Sunday's showdown
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December 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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France will play its full part in the struggle for our climate and our planet, guided by respect for science, industrial ambition, progress, solidarity, and the exemplary leadership of Europe - By Emmanuel Macron
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#ParisAgreement
Ten years after the Paris Agreement - Let us make the coming decade a time of collective success
France will struggle for our climate and our planet, guided by respect for science, industrial ambition, progress, solidarity, and the exemplary leadership of Europe
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December 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Yemen’s future may hinge on the foreign policy rivalry between the UAE and Saudi Arabia - By Sharmila Devi
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#Yemen #SaudiArabia #UAE #Houthis
Risk of renewed violence and even partition of Yemen rises after southern offensive
The STC’s takeover of south Yemen will derail Saudi efforts to make a UN-backed ceasefire permanent via a roadmap leading to a federal government for the whole country
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December 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Most worryingly for #Trump , who's become increasingly synonymous with his party, he's slipped on issues that were major strengths tomorrowsaffairs.com/trump-s-hand...
#TrumpApproval #Economy
Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point
Most worryingly for Trump, who's become increasingly synonymous with his party, he's slipped on issues that were major strengths
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December 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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From now on, all key investments will be evaluated according to the same rules and under the same supervisory framework tomorrowsaffairs.com/europe-intro...
#EU #Investments
Europe introduces uniform rules for controlling foreign capital
From now on, all key investments will be evaluated according to the same rules and under the same supervisory framework
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December 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Successive governments have found it easier to default to the craven principle of “not on my watch.” Can Starmer’s government muster the courage finally to do what needs to be done? - By Jim O’Neill tomorrowsaffairs.com/five-major-p...
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#Growth
Five major policy errors that the UK government must address sooner or later
The government’s self-imposed policy straitjacket is hobbling its efforts
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December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The European Union has taken another step on the journey from being a rule maker to becoming a rule taker - By
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#Regulation
EU-deregulation in the age of emulation
If the cliché holds, the Brussels bureaucracy and its political paladins are patronisingly aloof and set in their ways
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December 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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A separatist group has seized control of an oil-rich region in southern #Yemen , shattering a relative calm in the country’s stalemated civil war tomorrowsaffairs.com/escalation-i...
#MiddleEast
Escalation in Yemen threatens to reignite civil war
The move by the UAE-backed separatists upends the political arrangement among the anti-Houthi partners
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December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The surplus of over one trillion dollars does not reflect the stability of China's growth model, but rather the extent of the imbalances that model produces tomorrowsaffairs.com/china-s-trad...
#export #Growth
China's trade surplus over a trillion dollars – a signal of deep imbalance, not economic strength
The surplus of over one trillion dollars does not reflect the stability of China's growth model, but rather the extent of the imbalances that model produces
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December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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If the EU is to realize its climate goals, without sacrificing its security or competitiveness, it must eschew regulatory determinism in favor of flexibility and pragmatism - By
Ana Palacio
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#Climate #EV
Climate policy should reduce strategic risks, not create new ones
The last thing the EU needs is for its entire decarbonization strategy to depend on another country
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December 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Starmer needs to outline a clearer vision of where he would like to see the UK-Europe relationship stand by the end of Labour’s term - By Harvey Morris
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#EU #Brexit
The B-word is back as UK government touts closer European ties
Starmer needs to outline a clearer vision of where he would like to see the UK-Europe relationship stand by the end of Labour’s term
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December 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Lithuania’s government declared a national emergency over security risks posed by meteorological balloons sent from #Belarus that have violated its airspace tomorrowsaffairs.com/belarusian-e...
#Lithuania #sanctions
Belarusian escalate to de-escalate towards the European Union
Lithuania’s government declared a national emergency over security risks posed by meteorological balloons sent from Belarus that have violated its airspace
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December 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Beijing will gladly accept the offer from #Trump 's strategy to compete with the largest rival, primarily in the economic sphere tomorrowsaffairs.com/can-beijing-...
#NationalSecurityStrategy #China
Can Beijing be satisfied with Trump's security strategy?
Beijing will gladly accept the offer from Trump's strategy to compete with the largest rival, primarily in the economic sphere
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December 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Putin’s visit to New Delhi should serve as a wake-up call for the US: coercion and inconsistency are a sure path to estrangement - By Brahma Chellaney
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#Trump #IndoPacific
Is the US losing India as a pillar of its Indo-Pacific strategy?
Putin’s visit to New Delhi should serve as a wake-up call for the US: coercion and inconsistency are a sure path to estrangement
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December 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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A closer political alignment between Putin and Trump would pose a serious threat to Ukraine and to Europe as a whole - By Oleksandr Levchenko tomorrowsaffairs.com/can-ukraine-...
#UkraineWar #Trump
Can Ukraine and its partners prevent a complete rapprochement of US policy with Moscow?
A closer political alignment between Putin and Trump would pose a serious threat to Ukraine and to Europe as a whole
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December 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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EU officials were finalizing a major overhaul of its migration system, including streamlined deportations and increased detentions tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-european...
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#Immigrants #Asylum
The European Union continues to tighten its migration system
EU officials were finalizing a major overhaul of its migration system, including streamlined deportations and increased detentions
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December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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If she succeeds, #Machado may find closer ideological allies not in Washington, but in Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, and Rome - By Piotr H. Kosicki tomorrowsaffairs.com/machados-str...
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#Venezuela
Machado’s strategy between Trump and European Christian Democrats
If she succeeds, Machado may find closer ideological allies not in Washington, but in Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, and Rome
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December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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The future European security order is once again discussed primarily between Washington and Moscow, while European capitals are relegated to a passive role tomorrowsaffairs.com/are-washingt...
#Trump #Europe #Defense #NationalSecurityStrategy
Are Washington and Moscow redefining the European security framework?
The future European security order is once again discussed primarily between Washington and Moscow, while European capitals are relegated to a passive role
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December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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UBI is not a solution; it is a problem. It is the perfect tool for politicians who want to buy votes and for bureaucrats who want to justify their existence - By
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#inflation #Poverty
Universal Basic Income: A Subsidy To Obedience
UBI is not a solution; it is a problem. It is the perfect tool for politicians who want to buy votes and for bureaucrats who want to justify their existence
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December 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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While many communities have welcomed body cameras as an accountability tool, the prospect of real-time facial recognition has been unpopular across the political spectrum tomorrowsaffairs.com/ai-powered-p...
#police #Technology #FacialRecognition
AI-powered police body cameras - testing efficiency and privacy
While many communities have welcomed body cameras, the prospect of real-time facial recognition identifying people in public places has been unpopular
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December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Instead of becoming a new Iranian proxy or a Turkish protectorate, Damascus can use the competition between powers to preserve its independence tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-year-after...
#Syria #AlSharaa #MiddleEast
A year after Assad – Syria between reconciliation and new threats
Instead of becoming a new Iranian proxy or a Turkish protectorate, Damascus can use the competition between powers to preserve its independence
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December 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Trump’s militarized “war on drugs,” and the logic underlying it, faced less-noticed rebuke recently – this one coming from Ecuador - By Guillaume Long
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#Trump #latinamerica
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Referendum in Ecuador rejected Trump's policies towards Latin America
Trump’s militarized “war on drugs,” and the logic underlying it, faced another, less-noticed rebuke recently – this one coming from Ecuador
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December 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM