In the weeks leading up to Donald Trump’s “liberation day”, diplomats and foreign officials streamed through Washington to secure the holy grail: a deal the president could not refuse, and one that would spare them his tariffs. None succeeded. Trump used rarely-invoked emergency powers to unleash tariffs of between 10 per cent and 50 per … Read more
As one of her first acts in office, Donald Trump’s new US Attorney General Pam Bondi shut down a years-long operation to combat influence campaigns from China and other countries – an initiative launched under the first Trump administration. Buried near the bottom of one of 14 memos issued on her first day, Bondi disbanded … Read more
I could not quite think of a catchier title conveying both the plus (claim will continue to be heard in England) and the minus (the discussion having already caused considerable delay), without resorting too obviously to football metaphors. The claim is brought in England by a number of Liverpool fans physically and psychologically damaged by … Read more
Hungary has repeatedly threatened to block EU aid for Ukraine during the Russia-Ukraine war. Patrick Müller and Peter Slominski explain that this approach is indicative of a “hostage-taking” bargaining strategy in which the threat of a veto is used to gain concessions in other policy areas. Populist radical right parties in power have gone to … Read more
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday, February 13 to temporarily lift a three-week funding freeze that has shut down US aid and development work worldwide, citing the sweeping damage that the sudden shutdown has done to nonprofits and other organizations that help carry out US assistance overseas. The court ruling was the … Read more