Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
World’s Top Banker Says Trump Would Choke The Global Economy
The world’s top banker said Thursday that the policies advocated by Donald Trump could strike a major blow to the world economy. In an interview with the Financial Times, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said Britain’s vote last month to leave the European Union already threatens to stymie economic...
NATO Summit: Sailing Into Rough Seas With Russia
As the heads of state and government for the 28 members of NATO gather in Warsaw Friday and Saturday, there are choppy waters ahead for the venerable alliance. At the top of the agenda is the fraught relationship with Russia, which has been especially roiled since the invasion of Georgia in 2008, followed by the failed “reset” with...
Lack Of Progress On NATO May Turn Georgia Towards Russia
Ex-Soviet Georgia could start a gradual drift back into the orbit of its former overlord Russia if it does not see tangible signs soon that it will be invited to join NATO.Georgian officials will be at a NATO summit in the Polish capital on Friday where they will be seeking assurances that the alliance will make good on the promise it delivered...
EU: The Road Out of Crisis
In 2016, Europe and much of the world are confronted with ever more complex and interconnected social, political, economic and security challenges. Some are still struggling to make sense of what has become a potential unraveling of a multinational institution as solid as the European Union. Rather than strengthening European unity and...
After Brexit: Defend Europe By Making It Better
Anyone following the debate in its hottest phase could tell that the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union would not have a happy ending. What wasn’t said or written about Europe… and believed by so many. But I too am still shocked to the core. The British people’s decision to leave the European Union was...
North Korea Sends Hundreds Of ‘State-Sponsored Slaves’ To Europe: Rights Group
LONDON, July 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – North Korea has sent hundreds of workers to labor as “state-sponsored slaves” in EU nations as Pyongyang seeks to circumvent international sanctions aimed at starving it of money over its nuclear weapons program, rights campaigners said on Wednesday.North Korean laborers commonly...
NATO’s Uneasy New Reality: Could It Still Stop Russia?
One Monday afternoon in June, several hundred American, British and Polish troops parachuted into central Poland. Last month’s jump was just practice, part of an extended NATO rehearsal for a defense of northern Europe against Russia.But in a real crisis — if those soldiers were called to defend the Baltic states — they could be...
Russia To Empty One Of Its Sovereign Funds Next Year – Ministry Proposal
Russia will exhaust one of its two sovereign funds next year, according to a finance ministry proposal seen by Reuters, having by that point run through $87 billion since the beginning of 2014 to fill holes in the budget left by a slump in oil prices.Russia will also spend over the next three years about a third of another of its funds on...
“Mea Culpa” Foreign Policy
Turkey’s relations with its near neighbors have been strained over the last few years, being pushed to breaking point with Israel since 2010, with Egypt since 2013 and with Russia since November 2015, for various reasons. Hoping to turn a new page, Ankara has recently adopted a policy of mea culpa in a bid to normalize its relations with...
Christians Worry About Trend of Raids on Services at Homes in Former Soviet Union
Image: Orthodox church. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com Christians are condemning a provision in Russia’s soon-to-be-signed anti-terrorism law that prevents people from holding religious services in their homes. The provision is one of a raft of restrictions on people of faith that the Kremlin included in new anti-terrorism legislation. Belarus...
