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Any illusions I might have had about the waning influence of Irish farming were quickly disabused when I arrived in Brussels in the mid-1990s to...
It was a meeting of minds, kindred souls, timed to perfection for Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni. Celebrating together the magnificent...
The unprecedented decision by Romania’s constitutional court last week to annul the first-round victory of far-right firebrand Călin Georgescu...
The three-month transition between a US president’s election and inauguration is a time of great uncertainty, a time when the legacy on which...
Prime minister Shigeru Ishiba is clearly not a student of form. Had he but looked to the UK or France, or indeed Portugal, in this international...
I confess I was surprised when an old friend, who had spent time in the US as a senior diplomat closely observing Donald Trump, described the then...
It is no longer an empire on which the sun never sets. Not that, following decades of decolonisation, it is still much of an empire anyway. But...
It was a ferocious battle, hand-to-hand fighting, in which some 20,000 died, a decisive defeat for the Swiss Confederacy by the French and...
Elections were not working, so Venezuelans were voting with their feet. In advance of the July 28th election, 11 years in to Nicolas Maduro’s rule,...
Gabriel Zucman, the scourge of billionaires, is making waves. The Parisian economist, director of think tank the European Tax Observatory,...