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By Anatole Kaletsky - Feb 26,2017
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s recent call for voters to think again about leaving the European Union, echoed in parliamentary debates ahead of the government’s official launch of the process in March, is an Emperor’s New Clothes moment.Although Blair is now an unpopu
By Anatole Kaletsky - Jan 08,2017
The biggest political surprise of 2016 was that everyone was so surprised.
By Anatole Kaletsky - Dec 03,2016
For those of us who were wrong about the United States’ presidential election, it is worth suppressing emotional reactions, at least for a month or two, and attempting a dispassionate judgement about what Donald Trump’s administration may mean for the world.So here are 10 likely
By Anatole Kaletsky - Nov 02,2016
If Donald Trump loses the US election, will the tide of populism that threatened to overwhelm the world after the Brexit vote in June begin to wane?Or will the revolt against globalisation and immigration simply take another form?The rise of protectionism and anti-immigrant senti
By Anatole Kaletsky - Oct 04,2016
“Never let a crisis go to waste” has always been one of the European Union’s guiding principles.But what about five simultaneous crises?Today, the EU faces what Frans Timmermans, European Commission vice president, describes as a “multi-crisis”: Brexit, refugee flows, fiscal aust
By Anatole Kaletsky - Aug 18,2016
The legend of King Canute describes how an early Anglo-Saxon King showed his subjects the limits of royal power.Canute set his throne by the sea and commanded the rising tide to turn back.
By Anatole Kaletsky - Jun 19,2016
The febrile behaviour of financial markets ahead of the United Kingdom’s referendum on June 23 on whether to remain in the European Union shows that the outcome will influence economic and political conditions around the world far more profoundly than Britain’s roughly 2.4 per ce
By Anatole Kaletsky - May 22,2016
As the European Union (EU) begins to disintegrate, who can provide the leadership to save it?German Chancellor Angela Merkel is widely credited with finally answering Henry Kissinger’s famous question about the Western alliance: “What is the phone number for Europe?”But if Europe
By Anatole Kaletsky - Apr 02,2016
All over the world today, there is a sense of the end of an era, a deep foreboding about the disintegration of previously stable societies.In the immortal lines of W.B.
By Anatole Kaletsky - Feb 21,2016
Among the multiple existential challenges facing the European Union this year — refugees, populist politics, German-inspired austerity, government bankruptcy in Greece and perhaps Portugal — one crisis is well on its way to resolution.

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