The political environment in Central and Eastern Europe is ideal for populists who refuse to participate constructively in the European project.

Under President Donald Trump's leadership, the United States took another major step toward establishing itself as a rogue state on June 1, when it withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. For years, Trump has indulged the strange conspiracy theory that, as he put it in 2012, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.” But this was not the reason Trump advanced for withdrawing the US from the Paris accord. Rather, the agreement, he alleged, was bad for the US and implicitly unfair to it.

Trump's jumpiness whenever the Russia question comes up has only added to suspicions that he may have something to hide. It has also led him to make a series of mistakes.

In 2012, the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases signalled a bold new vision for international cooperation, in which networking and globalisation could underpin efforts in the global South to eradicate deadly diseases that disproportionately affect the poorest communities. The London Declaration — the largest global public-health collaboration to date — helped to foster trust in the rules-based global order that emerged after World War II.

It is accomplished…” In the years when I listened to music nonstop, the passage marked by those words was for me one of the most

With Helmut Kohl's death, “the largest figure on the continent of Europe for decades,” as Bill Clinton described the former German chancellor, has left us. Kohl possessed most of the talents of a successful politician: ambition, ruthlessness, tenacity, tactical skills, and a sense for the minds of ordinary people.

One thing we do know is that the future will be shaped by two key trends: digitisation and urbanisation. And the possibilities introduced by the former will likely help us overcome the problems associated with the latter.

Today, it appears that every single election in Europe can be reduced to one central question: “Is it a win or a loss for populism?” Until the Netherlands' election in March, a populist wave – or, as Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party,

No, Parisian voters are not “vomitatious,” as the pathetic Henri Guaino proclaimed Monday after losing his seat in the National Assembly.

US President Donald Trump, with the help of a Republican-controlled Congress, is undermining many of the fundamental values that Americans hold dear.

By accusing India of demanding “billions and billions and billions of dollars” as a condition for its participation in the Paris climate

The Conservative Party's loss of its parliamentary majority in the United Kingdom's snap election has proved political pundits,

Donald Trump has thrown a hand grenade into the global economic architecture that was so painstakingly constructed in the years

The United Kingdom has suffered two major terrorist incidents in the run-up to its general election on June 8.

US President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will no longer participate in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the

Emmanuel Macron's election to the French presidency provides the European Union with an opportunity to move past the internal

Hassan Rouhani has won re-election as Iran's president in a landslide, meaning that it is he who will be dealing with an antagonistic US President Donald Trump.

Printed newspapers offer the added advantage of reliability, in a country [India] where internet access cannot be guaranteed all the time, owing to still-patchy electricity supplies, which cause frequent blackouts even in the capital.

I sincerely hope that a brutal exit in the spring of 2019 can be avoided, and that the “deep and special partnership” that the UK talks about will materialise by, say, the spring of 2021.

For US President Donald Trump, the measure of a country's economic strength is its current-account balance — its exports of goods and services minus its imports.