(POGLED) Krizantema siromakova in bogastvo bogatega

Berem, kako Aleksander Čeferin, predsednik evropske nogometne zveze Uefa, varčuje pred slovesnim finalom lige prvakov, ob skorajšnjem zadnjem...

Israel’s Attorney General Better Not Let Netanyahu Fool Him

Who should pay for higher education in Japan?

Japan has enacted legislation that will expand support for higher education, including grants and scholarships for college and trade school...

Throw the Palestinian Beggars a Bone

The EU’s Four Challenges

MADRID – This year’s European Parliament election has spurred months of nail biting. Will the pro-European center hold? Will the body be too...

It’s now up to Seoul to break impasse over wartime laborers

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has repeatedly called for “future-oriented relations” with Japan. We understand that his words were based on...

The US will proudly go to war with Iran for Saudi oil

Since coming to office, US President Donald Trump has grabbed headlines for his loud declarations; that he called the Saudi king and demanded more...

The US should have no room for alliances with murderers

Reports that three prominent and moderate Saudi Arabian Sunni scholars held on multiple charges of “terrorism” will be executed shortly after...

Think twice about outrageous CEO retirement pay

Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche is just the latest to have his retirement pay package highlighted. Though modest by international standards, these...

Futility and extortion at the Manama conference

Despite the majority Palestinian national consensus that the Trump plan is a consecration of Israeli occupation policies in its right-wing...

(VEČERNO BRANJE) Ne čakaj, da te reši Evrovizija

Tisti, ki smo zadnje dni poročali s Pesmi Evrovizije v Tel Avivu, smo pod nos dobili tudi kak očitek. Dan po finalu, recimo, mi je kolegica v...

Dve strany plynovej mince

Diverzifikácia surovinových zdrojov je zaklínadlom našej i európskej politiky dlhé desaťročia. Napriek všetkému, závislosť slovenskej...

South Korea's Moon must confront economic headwinds

Politikárčenie s voľbou ústavných sudcov

Možno o to ide aj aktérom schvaľovacieho procesu nových členov tejto významnej inštitúcie, ktorá ešte stále nie je plne funkčná. Výber...

The Europe of Tomorrow

MADRID – Every five years, the European Union engages in an exercise of self-awareness. The European Parliament elections allow us to look at...

In memory of a literary gangster

I would not be a writer today if it wasn't for Binyavanga Wainaina. When I was 21, in my third year of university, I was on what was called an "...

Trump’s foreign policy has finally run out of road

WASHINGTON - A superpower can get away with a lot. It can sometimes muscle its way through tough situations; it can duck the consequences of sloppy...

Zakaj je Kurz potegnil kratko

Zloraba položaja, podkupovanje, ponarejanje dokumentov, goljufija – preiskava je trajala več kot deset let, obtožnica je dolga skoraj tisoč...

From joker to peacemaker? Zelensky needs to follow his words with actions to end Ukraine’s conflict

For the past five years, the mainly Russian-speaking people in eastern Ukraine have had to endure bombardments and sniper attack from military...

Let's not make a drama about Skripal case before important questions are answered

There's been neither sight nor sound of Yulia or Sergei Skripal. Yulia was last seen in a short video statement released on May 23, 2018, her...

The price of the EU's inaction in the Middle East

As the EU has adopted a noticeably more pragmatic stance towards Arab autocrats, shifts in the balance of power within this strategically vital...

EU’s Russian interference trail goes cold

They tried. They really tried. For years the European establishment has been sounding the alarm about a seemingly ever-imminent Russian...

A part-technocratic government in Austria may not be enough

Analysis. Ibiza-gate has sent the Austrian government into shock, with President Alexander van der Bellen proposing a technocratic government to...

Remembering D-Day: Questioning How We Compartmentalize War

When and where was D-Day? As we approach the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings we will be asked to focus on a specific day, in a specific...

Freedom of Speech and Pure Science in the Digital Holocene

According to Eric Hobsbawm, who coined the term “the short 20th century”, the 20th century was over in 1991. Others counter that it was over in...

Political correctness preventing child births in Japan

Even the Antarctic penguins have heard about Japan’s declining population; so massive is the obnoxious media storm. Pan-childlessness is a great...

Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?

CAMBRIDGE – Critics often claim that China is using its massive “Belt and Road Initiative” as a form of coercive “debt-trap diplomacy” to...