Analysis

How to sum up the most important news of the year past? The obvious answer in 2023 is to use Artificial Intelligence. In that spirit, I asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT and ...

By Charles Ellinas The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in September a review of the energy transition progress on meeting the Paris Agreement goals, referred to as ...

They have opposing views on Israel’s war with Hamas and conflicting attitudes to Moscow since the invasion of Ukraine, but when Germany and Turkey’s leaders meet in Berlin ...

By Maria Demertzis On 20 October, S&P Global Ratings raised the Greek economy’s credit rating back to investment grade. That was seen by many, in Greece and beyond, ...

By Louis N. Christofides Workers’ earnings in a firm reflect the contribution of labour to the firm’s output, meaning their productivity. Earnings are expressed in nominal terms (e.g., ...

By Stefanos Sofroniou The first ever legal framework on Artificial Intelligence could be agreed upon by the EU legislators as soon as this December. The draft Regulation proposed by the ...

By Maria Demertzis The EU will need 600 billion additional net investments every year from now to 2050 to meet its climate objectives. It also needs strategic investments to digitalise its economies, ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The killing of innocents and of non-combatants cannot be acceptable, and the Hamas attack of October 7, no matter its origins, has been an atrocious war crime. But ...

A hard-won deal on the European Union’s negotiating stance for this year’s U.N. climate talks has revealed regional rifts that anticipate global tensions at the COP28 summit. ...

One Israeli cabinet minister was barred from a hospital visitors’ entrance. Another’s bodyguards were drenched with coffee thrown by a bereaved man. A third had “traitor” and “imbecile” shouted ...

By Maria Demertzis The digital euro will likely be a reality in the not-so-distant future. For the European consumer, however, is still unclear what difference it will make to her ...

Until last weekend, the Biden administration was counting on the Middle East to remain relatively calm while it quietly pursued its main policy goals there: brokering Israeli-Saudi detente and containing ...

Hamas gave impression economy was in focus, says source By Samia Nakhoul and Jonathan Saul A careful campaign of deception ensured Israel was caught off guard when the Palestinian Islamist ...

Berlin introduces border controls, eclipsing open-door policy Partly due to electioneering ahead of Sunday votes -analysts Authorities struggle with influx as asylum requests up 80% By Sarah Marsh and Riham Alkousaa ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Liberal democracy has long been in retreat, and more so in the last ten years as widely documented in multiple studies and reports. Two examples are the ...

By Maria Demertzis At the heart of the EU’s legitimacy as an institution is its treaties. These agreements on what Europeans need to do together to achieve common goals ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Her first year in office has confounded expectations, as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni blended Atlanticism and pragmatism towards the EU with right-wing populism on immigration, cultural ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The economic environment has been relatively fluid in recent weeks and months. Headline inflation has declined, while core inflation has remained uncomfortably high. In Europe, economic activity ...

A day before mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane crash, a Russian official visited Libya to reassure allies that fighters from the Wagner Group would remain in the country — but ...

Saudi Arabian border guards have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, including women and children, who attempted to enter the kingdom along its mountainous border with Yemen, Human Rights Watch (HRW) ...

Lean times faced by many U.S. and European companies may last longer than expected as they try to sell off their bulging inventories in an economic climate where demand ...

Many workers across the U.S. are turning to ChatGPT to help with basic tasks, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, despite fears that have led employers such as Microsoft and ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The war in Ukraine may be the most violent and eruptive event in world affairs for a long time. But it is not a singular or autonomous ...

By Ioannis Tirkides A world war, especially on European soil, is unthinkable but raises legitimate concerns. The war in Ukraine has now dragged on for a year and a half, ...