Breaking the deadlock on EU asylum reform? – Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin

China’s swine fever epidemic is so bad it’ll make your blood clot

  In Foreign Policy, veteran science writer Laurie Garrett presents a devastating picture of the potential impact of China’s swine fever epidemic. Garrett connects the dots from dying pigs to President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, arguing that escalating tariffs are poised to combine with the spreading virus to wreak havoc on markets for pork, […]

The Nature of Brexit: Autumn and Everything After

  By Calum Nicholson, UK Correspondent   “You must understand that a world is dying, that old values, the old prejudices, and the old bases of power and prestige are going.”   These were the words of Edward R. Murrow to his CBS radio audience in the Autumn of 1940, in a report from London […]

Unpacking President von der Leyen’s new climate plan

By Simone Tagliapietra, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute   During her first State of the Union speech, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen confirmed a widely expected move: the scale-up of the EU’s 2030 climate target to “at least 55%” compared to 1990. This is a central pillar of the flagship proposal of her Commission: the […]