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- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 01/09/2020
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Ivory trade: Back on the market?2
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 29/07/2016
Recently, ivory trade has caused a great deal of furore between the EU, the public and conservation organisations. However, despite a legal misinterpretation leaving the EU misjudged, the resulting message that consumer demand for ivory is lawful, that killing these mythical creatures is acceptable and that they are a resource to be exploited, remains untouched.
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It’s not you, it’s me – what the US withdrawal from Paris means for renewable energy investment0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 07/07/2017
The announced rebuff of the Paris Climate Agreement by the world’s first economy will have profound impacts on renewable technologies investment. It will restrain investment opportunities, innovation and technology transfers, which are instrumental in meeting the carbon reduction vows of Paris.
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It takes two to tango0
- International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
- 29/12/2014
On 15th December, the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang shook hands with his Serbian counterpart opening a transit bridge that is to connect two, up to that point, divided sides of Belgrade. The bridge built by the joint effort of the Chinese and Serbian construction workers, engineers and architects, costs 226 million US Dollars. It was one the largest Chinese investments in Eastern Europe until only recently. In fact, when first announced, this project was the largest Chinese infrastructural investment in Europe as a whole.
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It is up to the Commission to guide into the right way to EU democracy1
- EU Governance and Politics, Op-ed
- 08/09/2016
However desirable it may seem for political organizations to endow themselves with the halo of democracy, the European Union should be cautious to hastily “democratize” in response to the Brexit. Reform efforts to tame spreading Euroskepticism are necessary, yet not according to national standards. The EU will have to develop its own unique, transnational version of democracy.
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It is time for innovation in the EU’s agriculture!1
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 27/07/2016
The agricultural sector encounters undoubtedly a form of crisis in Europe. In France, hundreds of farmers continue to unleash a torrent of almost daily protests against the collapse of milk and pork prices. In Italy, the situation is alarming too. Last year, Coldiretti, Europe’s largest agricultural professional organisation, rang an alarm bell: agriculture may disappear in thirty-two years in Italy.
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Islamic finance: zero interest, high expectations1
- Financial Policy and International Markets, Op-ed
- 27/07/2018
All across the globe, Islamic finance is gaining momentum. Based on an interest-free paradigm, this budding industry for European financial markets is deemed a potential game-changer for financial stability.
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