The reassuring news is we are not heading towards the Third World War
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The United Kingdom needs progressive realism to kickstart an era of renewal, with a sharper and more hopeful vision for the country’s role in the world
David Lammy lays out a case for Britain’s new global course
The important thing is not to see it only as a raw material challenge, but as really a much broader industrial challenge over who produces the technologies of tomorrow
Angela Mehrer and Rafael Loss on the lessons Europe must learn from the Iranian attack on Israel
While the EU officially opposes returning Syrians, there is growing informal and political buy-in on the front of rethinking certain areas of Syria as safe to return refugees
[If] you set an agenda with these three ministers, the tonality is overall a cooperative one, these are areas that we want to work on
Direct Iranian attacks on Israel are an unprecedented step in a steadily deepening and ever more direct regional war
The trajectory of the situation now depends on whether Israel feels the need to react, including through potential direct attacks on Iran
The EU is hoping to reduce its reliance on Russian territory by leading the development of a shorter alternative route through central Asia, called the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route