The political declaration came after calls from some member states for stricter approaches to fight irregular migration and facilitate deportations tomorrowsaffairs.com/europeans-ag... @coe.int #immigrants

Strategic suicide can be difficult to admit: one still hopes that Trump’s misadventures are based on some understanding of the American national interest. They are not - By @timothysnyder.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/why-is-trump... #Trump @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #IranWar‌

China is not only trying to increase the cost of America’s presence in Asia; it is also trying to change the very logic of American decision-making tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-new-cost... #Trump #XiJinping #Taiwan

Might a push from Washington reunite Libya whose oil riches are being eyed covetously by the US and Europe as energy flows remain restricted through the Strait of Hormuz? - By Sharmila Devi tomorrowsaffairs.com/us-hopes-to-... #Libya #Oilmarket

In a post-COVID-19 world, concerns about disease spread quickly surfaced after the first reports that three people had died from hantavirus tomorrowsaffairs.com/will-there-b... #hantavirus @who.int

Meloni’s action succeeded in shifting the issue of deepfake content from a technological discussion to the political centre of the European debate tomorrowsaffairs.com/meloni-case-... #Meloni #deepfake

Far from being replaced by a more Western-friendly entity, the Iranian regime has hardened into a military dictatorship - By Shlomo Ben-Ami tomorrowsaffairs.com/after-the-wa... #IranWar‌ @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #Gulf

The possibility of a successful transition now seems more tangible than ever before, as well as more urgent in the geopolitical context - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/europe-could... #IranWar‌ #Energy

Soaring costs for fuel due to the Iran war are leading panicked consumers in hard-hit Asia toward rooftop solar power tomorrowsaffairs.com/asia-is-turn... #IranWar‌ #OilPrices #SolarPower

We should want more billionaires, not fewer—certain in the knowledge that they give much more to society than they take from it - By @michaelrstrain.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/populists-wr... @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #Tax

France can no longer rely on history as a source of influence. In Africa, it must now deliver results tomorrowsaffairs.com/france-in-af... #Macron #France #Africa

Domestic attention is focused on who might succeed Starmer more than on the specifics of what he or she might do to revive the party’s and the country’s future prospects - By Harvey Morris tomorrowsaffairs.com/uks-labour-p... #Starmer #UKLabour

A very reasonable scenario is that #Putin could use Gotland to test NATO by trying to take a thin sliver of alliance territory to probe the collective reaction tomorrowsaffairs.com/nato-war-gam... #Russia #Ukraine #NATO

The Iran War may ultimately be remembered as the first conflict in which modern warfare became fundamentally inseparable from the militarisation of orbital space - By Nawaf Obaid tomorrowsaffairs.com/star-wars-ov... #IranWar‌

Putin is becoming increasingly aware that time is not working in Russia’s favour. That is why hints were heard for the first time about the possibility of ending the war and a potential meeting with #Zelenskyy - By Oleksandr Levchenko tomorrowsaffairs.com/moscow-milit... #Ukraine #Putin

The best way to safeguard #Taiwan ’s autonomy is to ensure Xi never receives the signal that patience is no longer required - By Eyck Freymann tomorrowsaffairs.com/will-trump-s... #XiJinping #Trump @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

The unanimous EU vote is a sign of the political possibilities unleashed by the ouster of Viktor #Orbán after 16 years in power in Budapest tomorrowsaffairs.com/without-orba... @press.consilium.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social #Israel #Hamas

Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are seeking to establish a position in the global AI economy before the market becomes fully divided between the US and Chinese technology blocs tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-gulf-is-... #AI #UAE #SaudiArabia

The largest central-bank gold purchases in recent years have been by countries that are significantly exposed to geopolitical risk - By Barry Eichengreen tomorrowsaffairs.com/central-bank... #Gold #Sanctions @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

Wars, trade tensions, and higher interest rates matter, but they do not explain why global growth has been so sluggish over the past five years - By @dlacalle.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/government-s... #growth

Beijing’s deep economic ties to Iran, as well as trade tensions over tariff threats, could crimp the good feelings when #Trump flies to Beijing this week tomorrowsaffairs.com/will-the-ira... #XiJinping #USChina

European militaries are preparing for the possibility of a protracted, high-intensity conflict. This is why attitudes towards production are also changing tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-war-in-u... #Defence #Ukraine #Drones

Borrower countries are signaling to markets a willingness and ability to improve debt practices and development-finance outcomes - By Ahmed Kouchouk tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-borrower... #UN @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #Debt

Protecting our digital identities, work, memories, and finances, which now live in connected systems, should not feel optional - By @elisequevedo.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/what-is-your... #digitalidentity #cybersecurity

The local election results reflect a fragmentation of UK politics after decades of domination by Labour and the @conservatives.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-decline-... #Starmer #ReformUK #Elections

Future major digital crises may arise not only from a successful attack but also from an overactive autonomous defence response. For such scenarios, most countries still lack both a legal and an operational response tomorrowsaffairs.com/war-of-the-m... #AI #Cyberattacks

If a country facing as many challenges as Mexico can achieve improvements of this magnitude, there may be a credible alternative to #Bukele ’s thuggishness - By @viririos.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/mexicos-new-... #Mexico #drugcartels @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

It’s no longer a question of "How much will oil cost?" This is a matter of what balance the global economy will settle into - By @emrealkin.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/what-if-the-... #IranWar‌ #OilMarket

ASEAN’s contingency plan calls for actions including an agreement that will pave the way for coordinated emergency fuel sharing tomorrowsaffairs.com/southeast-as... #ASEAN #IranWar‌ #OilMarket

European governments should be pushing forward with a system that discourages emissions, incentivizes adoption of renewables, and generates public revenues - By Daniel Gros tomorrowsaffairs.com/europes-resp... #EV #IranWar @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

As the US and Iran jostle over the Strait of Hormuz, there is little global attention on another attempted blockade in the Malian capital, Bamako - By Sharmila Devi tomorrowsaffairs.com/islamist-bid... #Mali #Sahel #AlQaeda

The UAE is not irrelevant, but it cannot replace Saudi Arabia, redefine the oil market independently, anchor the GCC alone, or sustain Netanyahu’s regional ambitions - By Ahmad El Husseini tomorrowsaffairs.com/abu-dhabis-a... #UAE #SaudiArabia #OPEC #IranWar‌

Russia's security services are now more brazen in their choice of targets, going after Russian activists and foreign supporters of Ukraine tomorrowsaffairs.com/russia-is-ra... #RussiaWar #Sabotage

Europe formally possesses instruments of economic retaliation. What it lacks is political consensus on the willingness to use them against the US tomorrowsaffairs.com/agreement-wi... #Trump #Tariffs

The still-raging Middle East conflict will do more to shift international partnerships and the global balance of power than any event since the end of the Cold War - By @ianbremmer.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-biggest-... #IranWar‌ @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #Trump #XiJinping

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met as recently as October last year and agreed a trade truce that’s still in place. Why mess with that? - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/europe-watch... #XiJinping #Trump

The repositioning of the Charles de Gaulle comes as part of a proposed mission championed by France and Britain to restore maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz tomorrowsaffairs.com/france-moves... #IranWar‌ #StraitofHormuz

In the case of a surrender, Tehran would have to accept a full stop to nuclear enrichment and reopen the strait unconditionally. This would be the best outcome for the US, Europe and Asia - By Nouriel Roubini tomorrowsaffairs.com/between-the-... @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #IranWar‌

Saudi Arabia remains the largest single producer with the greatest spare capacity in #OPEC, but that is no longer enough to guarantee the market stability tomorrowsaffairs.com/saudi-arabia... #OilMarket #SaudiArabia

The challenge of what might be termed the nationalisation of local politics is that it risks skewing democratic choices at the most fundamental level - By Harvey Morris tomorrowsaffairs.com/uk-parties-n... #UKelection #Starmer #Conservatives

The crisis will likely lead to a stalemate, since no one has a majority, or a coalition tomorrowsaffairs.com/government-c... #Romania #Election

De-dollarisation between #Brazil and #China consists of a series of practical decisions that, step by step, have built a system strong enough to function without the dollar tomorrowsaffairs.com/china-and-br... #dollar #BRICS

Never has a Fed chair faced—and resisted—so much pressure to carry out inappropriate policy changes - By Desmond Lachman tomorrowsaffairs.com/will-jerome-... @federalreserve.gov @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #Trump #Inflation

For four years, Moscow claimed that the war against Ukraine had mobilised the Russian economy and had a positive effect on it. This narrative has disappeared - By Oleksandr Levchenko tomorrowsaffairs.com/russian-hous... #Russia #UkraineWar #Putin

Trump’s surprise decision to pull thousands of US troops out of Germany is just the latest signal that Europe must take more responsibility for its security tomorrowsaffairs.com/europeans-de... #NATO #Defense #Europe

For decades, The US Supreme Court acted as a corrective, particularly on civil rights issues, limiting political power and protecting the balance. Today, that role is changing tomorrowsaffairs.com/between-law-... #SupremeCourt #gerrymandering #USElection

Because the concentration of power masks cracks as they form, the transition out of illiberal democracy may be sudden and destabilizing - By Guillermo Ortiz tomorrowsaffairs.com/is-the-hunga... #hungaryelection @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #Mexico

As supply continues to adjust and logistics continue to evolve, the most underappreciated story is not how high gasoline might go but how quickly it can come back down - By @dlacalle.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/gasoline-pri... #Oilmarket #gasoline

The dollar has fallen about 10% against other major currencies since #Trump returned to the White House tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-weaker-dol... #Dollar

The easiest move in American life is to sneer at the “system.” The harder, more honest move is to ask whether the people seeking office are prepared to lead it - By @johnsipher.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/hail-the-dee... #deepstate #institutions #Trump #IranWar‌