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Are Central European countries ready for the Euro?

                  By Zsolt Darvas, courtesy Bruegel Institute     Southern European euro-area members suffered from unsustainable developments after they joined the euro in 1999 and up to 2008, and have had great difficulties since. Inadequate national policies were...

Basic eye care could save sight of over 1 billion people

                      Over one billion people are at risk of losing their sight, the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new report from the WHO, which urges that many of these people could be saved from vision loss with basic eye care....

The Nature of Brexit: Autumn and Everything After

  By Calum Nicholson, UK Correspondent   “You must understand that a world is dying, that old values, the old prejudices, and the old bases of power and prestige are going.”   These were the words of Edward R. Murrow to his CBS radio audience in the Autumn of 1940, in...

The Shark From Denmark: Vestager is coming for Big Tech

                      Execs for American Big Tech companies including Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon have probably been enjoying a few sleepless nights since the reappointment of Margrethe Vestager, the bare knuckles European competition supremo, to her post as...

EU should copy Belt and Road in Africa

                            Hopefully the name will make more sense. China’s much-discussed Belt and Road Initiative, seeking to create and strengthen land and maritime infrastructure across Eurasia, has attracted a lot of criticism for saddling low-income...