The UK has set itself the goal of achieving “net zero emissions” by the year 2050 — and that will require some serious new spending, according to a government report cited by The Guardian. The report, authored by analysts at Vivid Economics, […]
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EU leaders giving up on possibility of Brexit deal
They always said it was the sensible one — no more! The UK’s whacky spin round the political bend continues, with all all manner of unprecedented nonsense threatening to undermine its unwritten constitution, and the continued volatility is causing its interlocutors in Brussels to […]
UK needs to keep its sugar tax to save lives
The Big Nudge, er, a sugar tax on sweetened drinks is a recent arrival in the UK, but the country needs to resist opposition to the tax in order to combat obesity and diabetes, argues Nina Renshaw in The Telegraph, noting that it […]
Eastern Europe, Central Asia need harm reduction strategies to fight HIV, Hep C
Eastern Europe and Central Asia have lagged behind Western Europe and elsewhere in adopting harm reduction strategies to combat diseases spread by intravenous drug users who share dirty needles, with predictably unfortunate results. It’s time for governments in both regions to implement harm reduction strategies […]
Fatty liver disease, the next public health crisis?
Just in case we don’t have enough public health crises threatening to push national healthcare systems to their breaking points, here’s another chronic, non-communicable epidemic to obsess about: fatty liver disease (FLD). The specter of FLD unrelated to alcoholism (historically the main cause of the […]
Keeping America Great with a Space Force
By Mona Salama, TES Contributor President Trump has launched a full-fledged Space Command that will rise to the challenge of defending and preserving U.S. dominance in space — but only if Congress approves it. Democrat lawmakers need to support the President’s proposal and stop […]
Don’t worry about Serbia’s trade deals — democracy and rule of law are more pressing concerns
By Mihailo Gajic, Head of Research, LIBEK & TES Contributor On October 25th, Serbia will sign a trade deal with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a Russian-backed trade federation — a mostly symbolic move which has however led to a widespread, and totally erroneous, belief that Serbia actually intends to […]
China’s government fears Hong Kong-Taiwan axis
The Chinese government’s deepening paranoia about the protests in Hong Kong, which Beijing blames on meddling by outside powers (read: the U.S.), is unlikely to be relieved by the appearance of strengthening ties between Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and Taiwan, which has enjoyed full (if […]
The EU’s Competition and Antitrust Tightrope
By Rebecca Christie and Mathew Heim, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute The European Union, the world’s largest consumer market, needs a clearer vision for how it wants to manage competition and state subsidies affecting European markets and consumers. As business becomes ever more inter-connected, […]
TES Weekly Update: America needs a Space Force with teeth
Like it or not, space is already being militarized For those of us old enough to remember the Cold War — ah, simpler times, when all we had to worry about was the horrifyingly real possibility of nuclear annihilation at any moment without warning — the idea of the United States creating a real […]