With Saturday 14th January marking one year since the ousting of President Ben Ali in Tunisia, we should take a moment to reflect on what the "Arab Spring" has achieved in the past year. We have seen the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and ...
The United Nations predicts that the planet's seven billionth human inhabitant will be born this month, and the global population is expected to reach 10 billion by the end of the century. Furthermore, in a special feature on Demography, the Financial Times commented on 18th October that, "more than 70 ...
Moves have been underway this week to appoint a new Director of Strategy in Downing Street. This follows the decision taken by the Prime Minister last November to close down the Downing Street strategy unit. Part of the role of this new Director of Strategy will be to shape a ...
As the Christmas break approaches, what are the main challenges likely to be in 2011? As I see it, three important themes from a European outlook are stabilising the Euro and achieving sustained economic growth, budgetary debates on the post-2013 Financial Perspective, and developing strategic thinking for EU decision-making.
1. Stabilising ...
In recent days, discussion of the UK's potential role in an increasingly multi-polar world has appeared in a number of national papers, with commentators beginning to look beyond our current financial and economic predicament towards an uncertain future ahead.
My attention has been drawn in particular to an article by Philip ...
Following up on the blog's look at the state of the European economy last week, the European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, came to Strasbourg this week to deliver his first 'State of the Union', which is intended to set the scene for the next 12 months - the EU's ...
