High debt and rising interest rates put a premium on improved governance to anchor fiscal policy in EU member states. Given the central role of fiscal policy in addressing both recent crises and future challenges, the call to reform fiscal governance in Europe resonates like never before.
Clicksbox / Shutterstock Nicholas Allen, Royal Holloway University of London The United Kingdom’s next prime minister will be Liz Truss. After a two-month contest, Conservative Party members have chosen her as their new leader. All that remains is for Truss to travel to Balmoral in Scotland where she will be formally invited by the Queen […]
Singapore’s impressive recovery from the pandemic is outperforming similar economies, with total output exceeding pre-crisis levels last year, but the rebound has also been uneven.
“It is possible to argue that the most important challenge facing the free nations of the world is to develop a co-ordinated approach to imposing all types of sanctions that would discourage military aggression. Currently, sanctions have been imposed on Russia in an uncoordinated manner. This is unfortunate.”
The Bank of England is failing the UK with its woeful inflation management, fuelling a painful cost of living crisis, and overseeing a British pound with sinking credibility.
Amnesty International today warned that the right to protest is under unprecedented and growing threat across all regions of the world.
Washington, DC, US// – Slavery, land grabbing, police violence, extortion, and language and political repression in Mauritania is rampant. U.S. deportations to Mauritania have resulted in the detention, torture, extortion, and statelessness of long-term U.S. residents.
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country on a military jet, amid mass protests over its economic crisis.
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest serving prime minister, has died after being shot in the city of Nara while campaigning for a parliamentary election, local media reports.
Victoria Honeyman, University of Leeds Most prime ministers would have resigned over any one of the scandals to engulf Boris Johnson’s government. Johnson, never one for tradition or rules, rode out nearly every crisis – but the Chris Pincher affair was the final straw.
