With the main European Union institutions preparing for a change of leadership this autumn, now is a good time to reflect on the EU’s priorities for the coming years. The EU’s new top team is all but ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
Electric bicycles and scooters are taking a lot of heat. Concerns about traffic fatalities, terrorized pedestrians, and urban lawlessness have led a growing chorus of politicians and media commentator ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
With objectives as far-reaching as ending poverty in all its forms and delivering quality education to all by 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are highly ambitious – much more ambitious ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
When the United Kingdom eventually leaves the European Union – assuming it does – it will take Europe’s biggest capital market with it. The loss of the City of London could drive the EU’s 27 remaining ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-19
There is a good reason why every civilized country in the world tightly regulates its financial system. The 2008 global financial crisis, after all, was largely the result of rolling back financial re ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-17
Since the United Kingdom’s Department of International Development (DFID) was created 22 years ago, it has lifted millions out of poverty, sent millions of children to school, and saved millions of li ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-16
The world has made impressive strides in reducing extreme poverty, but that progress has slowed considerably in recent years. The problem is clear: eliminating extreme poverty requires tackling inequ ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-16
The global financial crisis that erupted in 2008 transformed the role of central bankers and the scale and scope of their policy toolkit. Today, financial stability is once again at the core of centra ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-12
The choice of Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund and a former French finance minister, to succeed Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank, is co ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-05
The upcoming change of leadership at the European Central Bank represents an opportunity – if not an obligation – to review the Bank’s policy framework. The ECB can take credit for major achievements ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-03
Facebook and some of its corporate allies have decided that what the world really needs is another cryptocurrency, and that launching one is the best way to use the vast talents at their disposal. The ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-03
Around the world, the creation of good new jobs is increasingly concentrated in some of the largest cities. Innovative people want to work and live in close proximity to one another. This process of t ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-02
The terrible experience of the 1930s should remind us that trade and currency wars go together like a horse and carriage. Now that US President Donald Trump’s administration is fully implementing his ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-02
Three years after the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, the UK is no closer to figuring out how to leave the European Union, and what comes next, than it was when the result was announced. And now a ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-27
American multinationals may like the idea of forcing China to alter the policies and practices – from subsidies for state-owned enterprises to the requirement that foreign firms share proprietary tech ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-25
US President Donald Trump’s anti-climate agenda is in full swing. His administration has already taken action 117 times to repeal or weaken climate regulations, and much more deregulation is in the wo ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-24
特朗普政府對華貿易衝突背後隱藏着一種由來已久的擔憂，那就是美國有可能在全球技術競爭中失去優勢。而且有這種擔憂的 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Manuel Muniz2019年06月22日
In early 2015, the European Union became the first major economy to set a post-2020 target for limiting greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. By committing to reducing emissions to at least 40 percent below ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-19
Like many others, I was shocked by recent images showing the size of the queue that formed in May to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, from the Nepalese side. The idea that delays caused ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-19
前美國駐聯合國大使薩曼莎．鮑爾（Samantha Power）曾稱種族滅絕戰爭是「地獄來的問題」（A prob ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Amin Saikal2019年06月15日
