Hungary throws sand in the gears of an EU oil embargo
As European leaders meet in Brussels, Viktor Orbán continues to oppose the bloc’s plan to further sanction Russian energy imports.
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“There is a serious vacuum in the Kremlin. It can’t last” Christopher Steele on Ukraine and Putin
The former spy and author of the Trump-Russia dossier talks Londongrad oligarchs, Ukraine and the vulnerability of Vladimir Putin.
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As China’s growth stalls and supply chains falter, the West faces a stagflation trap
Soaring energy and food prices mean inflation is rising globally – and it will only come down if banks engineer…
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How the Marshall Plan made Europe
It is 75 years since the US launched its ambitious aid scheme to rebuild postwar Europe and protect it from…
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How Britain’s failure to reckon with global forces led to a cost-of-living crisis
At the end of the era of globalisation and market-led capitalism, there is no clear successor to this crumbling model.
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Striker, shopkeeper, pigeon: what Sweden and Nato should know about Erdoğan
The Turkish president has been moving the goalposts domestically for 20 years. The international community must catch up.
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Dispossession and defiance: how Hong Kong’s struggle explains our world
Two new books on China’s “world city” tell a far richer, more nuanced story than colonialism, then capitalism and Beijing’s…
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Invasion of Ukraine forces a reckoning for the Orthodox world
Putin’s mobilisation of Orthodoxy has only undermined Russia’s authority in the faith it claims to be defending.
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