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, […]
While economic sanctions have traditionally targeted entire countries, Clara Portela of the Center for European Policy Studies notes the rise of “horizontal sanctions,” which can target individuals and entities in order to make the sanctions weapon more precise. Horizontal sanctions have been employed over Syrian chemical weapons and Russian agents’ attempt to assassinate […]
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor COVID-19: It’s all we talk about, on the cable news, and in our 6-foot socially-distanced prison walks around our silent neighborhoods. And in nearly every conversation comes the intellectual shrug, “who could have seen this coming?” A single phrase that neatly absolves governments and experts alike of […]