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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...

EU auditor criticizes waste, urges tighter controls

By Alastair Macdonald, Reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's auditor called on the bloc's new executive on Wednesday to seek better value for taxpayers' money as its report on the 2013 accounts estimated that up to 9...
'Stop shouting at Europe', City lobby group tells UK's rulers

By Guy Faulconbridge, Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - British politicians should stop shouting at their European Union partners from the sidelines and start building alliances to ensure proper reform of the world's richest region, a...
France seen weakest euro zone economic performer: EU forecasts

By Robin Emmott and Jan Strupczewski, Reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France, the euro zone's second biggest economy, appeared as the weakest performer in European Commission economic forecasts on Tuesday with below average economic growth, falling...
French, German resolution fund bill to be 15 billion euros per country

By Reuters

The 55 billion euro common fund established in March, known as the Single Resolution Mechanism, is designed to be a pan-European bailout fund made up of levies on banks built up over eight years. "We...
EU growth forecasts show German prudence not working, Italy says

By Stephen Brown, Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - The latest reduction in growth forecasts for the euro zone proves that Germany's and the outgoing European Commission's "prudent" approach to investment has failed and must be...

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