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![]() Alan BeattieFinancial Times |
Fears of an international hunger emergency after the Ukraine invasion proved unfounded
The Democratic candidate makes a welcome attack on Donald Trump’s reckless trade plans
Kamala Harris won’t have much room to shift from industrial intervention and import tariffs
The EU’s international policies on climate, trade and development are incoherent
Starmer’s government faces a familiar trade-off between the economics and the politics of foreign workers
The gravitational force of the EU economy will pull against the UK’s strategic alliance with Washington
The need for overseas workers forces governments to ever-greater heights of hypocrisy
The UK should shun any initiative that makes it harder to realign with the EU
Beneath the adolescent showmanship, the president is slowly pursuing orthodox reform
There is no effective means of constraining destructive subsidies
The EU foreign subsidies regulation is looking to score some notable hits
Many middle-income countries show reserves of pragmatic tolerance that Europeans do not necessarily deserve
The greenback’s global role has endured shocks from without and within
Consistency and bipartisanship have helped Canberra resist trade coercion by Beijing
Environmental trade restrictions now reflect noisy campaigners more than protectionist farmers
Blocking cargo ships’ passage through the Red Sea hasn’t noticeably hurt global growth or pushed up inflation
The EU’s carbon tariffs to combat climate change are snarled in complex bureaucracy
A WTO meeting next week will discuss the bizarre idea of trying to put border tariffs on data flows
There is no single liberal international order embracing both economics and foreign policy
Ministers should explain the benefits and address the costs of attracting foreign students
US industrial policy is too expensive and China-sceptic to become a global standard
Relying on American military power to protect Red Sea shipping routes is risky
Governments are performatively hostile to asylum seekers to distract voters from economic migrants
The EU’s new tech regulations are complex but a good-faith effort to fix a problem
Diverse geopolitics, smart researchers and resourceful traders are undermining attempts to control critical products