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Here’s Who Wins as Trump Exits the Paris Climate Accord

By Huileng Tan, CNBC

President Donald Trump's decision to exit an international climate agreement sparked outrage from many quarters, but some countries are likely already eyeing the positives from the move, experts said...
Trump's 'Big Win' in Europe Is the World's Big Loss

By Rob Garver

Leaving the de facto leader of Europe staring into a half-empty beer stein and reassessing everything she and her fellow Europeans thought they knew about the world order and America’s role in it was...
Trump’s Blunders on NATO and Russia Make Our European Allies Cringe

By Patrick Smith

If you thought Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions were politically calculated toss-offs, think again. The interview he gave The Times of London last week put the world on notice: The views Trump...
On Day One, Trump Faces Two Huge Foreign Policy Challenges

By Patrick Smith

Barack Obama isn’t handing Donald Trump any portfolio of foreign-policy successes as he passes the baton the next president. Trump is about to step into a world that his peace-prize-winning...
Why Trump Needs to Hold Countries That Hack and Steal Accountable

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Many assert that President-elect Donald Trump is against free trade. But standing against the theft of intellectual property and old-fashioned mercantilism, as Trump has promised to do, is an...

5 Foreign Policy Challenges President-Elect Trump Faces Before He Unpacks

By Patrick Smith

Foreigners always watch U.S. elections, but rarely with the edge-of-the-seat suspense evident as the votes were tallied Tuesday. With Donald Trump’s dramatic victory, they’re as much in the dark as...
Blimey! British Brexit Has a New Hurdle: Parliament Must Approve

By Griffe Witte, The Washington Post

LONDON — A senior British court on Thursday dealt a severe blow to Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to begin the process of exiting the European Union early next year, ruling she must get...
Britain’s Tarnished Sterling: A Global Warning for Theresa May on Brexit

By Patrick Smith

At 7:07 last Friday in Hong Kong, the British pound suddenly plummeted: In the next two minutes it fell 6.1 percent, to $1.18, its lowest level since 1985. In the next half hour, it regained most of...
Erdoğan Is Destroying Turkey’s Hopes for Democracy

By Hilton L. Root

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s extra-legal roundup of scores of presumed supporters of the failed July 15 coup against his government is quickly taking its place in modern history alongside...
Italexit: Is the Eurozone’s Third Largest Member on the Way Out?

By Desmond Lachman

Europe has seemingly coped well with its recent Brexit shock, but now looms the prospect that Italy might be heading for the Eurozone’s door. This should be of great concern to European and global...

Ukraine president digs in heels over Russia ties despite protests

By Richard Balmforth and Gareth Jones, Reuters

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich gave no ground on Tuesday to protesters who want Kiev to move closer to the European Union, insisting his government needs to deepen trade ties...
Chinese hackers spied on Europeans before G20 meeting: researcher

By Jim Finkle, Reuters

BOSTON (Reuters) - Chinese hackers eavesdropped on the computers of five European foreign ministries before last September's G20 Summit, which was dominated by the Syrian crisis, according to...
Ukraine protesters hold firm, defying riot police

By Alissa de Carbonnel, Reuters

KIEV (Reuters) - Thousands of Ukrainian protesters huddled by braziers in their tented camp in the snowbound capital Kiev into Tuesday morning, in defiance of riot police who took up positions...
Banks trim risk but fail to raise provisions ahead of EU review

By Laura Noonan, Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Most of Europe's big banks shed risky assets in the quarter to September, but they have yet to take extra provisions against doubtful loans to show they have put the financial...
Greek parliament approves 2014 budget plan

By Renee Maltezou, Reuters

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's parliament approved a budget plan on Saturday filled with over 3 billion euros of austerity cuts that sees the debt-laden country emerging from a six-year recession next...

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