Lily Ong In a 15th-century priory nestled away in a prestigious neighbourhood of Geneva, an exclusive audience gathered on the gorgeous grounds of a university before His Excellency Geoff Hoon, who had served as the Defence Minister of Britain in Tony Blair’s Cabinet. He was speaking as part …

Eric Zeusse  Following are excerpts from (which constitute only 22% of) Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech and his answers to questions at the 17 July 2022 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session, where the moderator was Margarita Simonyan, whom Putin chose in 2005 to head the Russian …

Julia Melnikova European-Chinese relations have been on pause since the end of 2020. The politicisation of interaction, caused both by objective disproportions in the development of trade and investment partnerships, and by the desire of Brussels to control the relations of member states with China, became the main …

Global natural gas markets are set to remain tight next year, with lower gas flow from Russia to Europe, high gas prices, lower demand and the impact of energy saving measures, according to the International Energy Agency’s Gas Market Report Q4 2022 published Monday. As Russia’s curtailment of …

Commodity markets have been volatile as high interest rate environment continues amid rising inflation and recession concerns. As part of efforts to rein in soaring inflation, central banks of the UK, Norway, Switzerland, Taiwan, South Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines have made aggressive interest rate hikes recently. The …

Grocery prices in the UK could increase by almost $2 billion due to a surge in the cost of carbon dioxide, according to a new report released on Monday. The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), a UK-based non-profit advisory group, compiled research that showed huge increases in …

The eurozone manufacturing sector fell deeper into contraction territory as demand tumbled further and price pressures intensified, according to PMI data from S&P Global released on Monday. The Eurozone Manufacturing PMI was revised downwards to 48.4 in September from a preliminary reading of 48.5 and below 49.6 in …

More and more Germans are seeking help from food banks and charities due to record-high inflation and soaring energy bills. According to the federal food bank umbrella organization Tafel Deutschland, demand has increased compared to the previous year, with more than 2 million people now relying on food …

Amr Ababakr In the first lines of the introduction to his most recent book, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, which was released this summer in the Penguin Random House Publishers in New York; Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger seems unintentionally, of course, to hand his …