Prince Michael of Liechtenstein

  This week, all key finance ministers and central bank governors are gathering in Washington for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. These two supranational institutions were created out of the Bretton Woods agreements, which sought to provide a financial and economic framework for the global economy. That system was, on […]

  In Berlin, the Social Democratic Party, which took a drubbing in recent elections, dominates the governing program of the coming four years. Policies that were rejected by the majority of voters will continue with some lukewarm adjustments. Likewise, in Paris, President Emmanuel Macron, having lost center and left voters in the last French national […]

  Since his election last November, United States President Donald Trump has surprised the world with new ideas nearly every day. Last week, he delivered the biggest shock yet: He announced steep tariffs on imports into the U.S. “Is he insane? How dare he? We must resist! He is destroying the economy. A recession will follow! A […]

  Through carelessness and a lack of caution, a reporter from The Atlantic was inadvertently granted access to a Signal chat for high-level American officials by United States President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Waltz. Among the select participants were Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director […]

  Geographically, Europe is a peninsula at the western end of the vast Eurasian landmass. It is also part of the Atlantic region, where easy shipping across the ocean has fostered connections between Europe and America. Thus, the old continent is closely linked to both East and West. Its close neighbor to the south, Africa, […]