... n had the prime minister suddenly discovered urgent business abroad on the eve of the Scottish independence referendum? The answer is simple: his credibility would have been reduced to tatters. Maybe ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-13
... g Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. What was his excuse last time? Who cares. But Putin apparently wasted no time catching up with an old friend, Italy's disgraced former premier Silvio Berlusconi, ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
... ith Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on the sidelines of a European Union summit on Wednesday to try to break the impasse. “Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” Merkel told reporters as she arrive ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
... n the new prime-time TV series Tiger Mom, Zhao, one of China's biggest and wealthiest movie stars, plays a driven mother who pushes her daughter to succeed. An official at Shanghai Pudong New Distri ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-10
... odwill by Prime Minister Zhou Enlai. On the 2013 version of Beijing’s official maps, an additional dash has been drawn northeast of Taiwan (outside the South China Sea) as a proclamation of its suzera ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... s British prime minister Harold Wilson. London's National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won in five of the six categories for which it was nominated, includin ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
Japanese academics have urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to renew apologies for the nation's imperialist past and offer to compensate victims of its wartime brothel system, Agence France-Presse reporte ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... , who was prime minister until December, summarised this position: “Those who oppose our increasing economic relations with the mainland and want to develop them with the US and Southeast Asia are ver ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... rpiece of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic revival plan, aims to make company bosses more accountable to shareholders, whose interests have often been ignored in the past, the newspaper said. Over ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak will raise the issue directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Malaysia has generally taken a low-key approach in South China Sea disputes, in contrast to th ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... ith Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the summit in the Bavarian Alps. He told Abadi that political inclusion in recruiting Iraqi forces is as important as the fight. The US has pressed Abadi to ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... and give Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his country’s creditors -- the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund -- more time to chart a new path for Greece’s economy. But it does not resolve a ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... r, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pragmatic since he took the reins of his nation last year. For instance, he canceled a meeting with the Dalai Lama prior to a China trip, as he did not ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... ement for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who came to power with a pledge of revitalizing the country's economy with his “Abenomics” package of stimulus measures, featuring aggressive monetary easing. The ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... e British prime minister as telling reporters Sunday at the Group of Seven summit at Schloss Elmau, Germany. "We have a clear view; renegotiate, get a deal that is in Britain’s interest and then recom ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... pore, the prime minister's office said the children caught in the quake were from Tanjong Katong primary school, according to Reuters. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong declared June 8 a day of national ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... them. But Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Maroni, a former interior and labor minister, was partly responsible for locking Italy into an unfair European Union treaty that requires asylum seekers to a ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker rebuked leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and and warned that time was running out to conclude a debt deal to avert a damaging default. In u ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... . British Prime Minister David Cameron aims to renegotiate the country's terms of membership in the EU before a referendum in 2017 on whether Britain should stay in the community. "I'm optimistic that ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
... t, led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, plans to bundle the payments due this month into a single 1.5 billion euro chunk which is now due on June 30. The move came as Tsipras is trying to reach a dea ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
