The Globalist

While the rest of Europe ducked, one region stood up for important principles of responsible globalization.

Will the “cathedral” – aka the EU – ever be completed? Is it worth the effort? Or might it fall down and bankrupt its builders?

Centrality, not hegemony is the name of the German political game. They love network logic.

Britain has long opposed an EU defense identity fearing it would undermine NATO. Post Brexit, the remaining 27 members can forge ahead.

What is really at stake for both the UK and the EU in the forthcoming negotiations over Brexit.

The refugees trying to escape Chios shows the world’s failure to protect victims of one of the worst humanitarian disasters.

Germany is not just a core member of the EU, it is the core member. Being the EU’s biggest asset also means it is its Achilles heel.

In 2017, German Chancellor Merkel will assume the helm of her troubled country – for the fourth time. Unless she decides not to run.

An “ever closer Europe” is the only way to curb the exorbitant power of the multinationals and curtail their power to “divide in order to rule.”

Apple, Google, Facebook et al.’s prolonged tax cheating further hollows out the already shaky support for globalization.