Even Americans don’t want Trump’s barmy tariffs, writes Douglas Irwin
ON “LIBERATION DAY” President Donald Trump upended more than half a century of American trade policy by imposing sweeping tar...
The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi
A FRENCH COURT has found Marine Le Pen, the leader of the country’s far-right movement, guilty of embezzlement of EU funds an...
The boss of Siemens on how to re-energise the German economy
IS GERMANY FINALLY ready for a reset? That’s the question many asked when a broad centrist coalition recently shattered a lon...
Ekrem Imamoglu’s wife on how his arrest has turned a mayor into a movement
WHEN MY HUSBAND, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested in the early hours of March 19th, millions across Turkey felt exactly as I did:...
The global trading system needs new rules, not tariffs, say Wally Adeyemo and Joshua Zoffer
IF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is true to his word, reciprocal tariffs on the world will come as soon as next week. This follows t...
Donald Trump’s unwillingness to heed allies’ advice is foreign-policy folly, writes Gary Bass
VISITING THE Oval Office on March 12th, Micheal Martin, Ireland’s prime minister, was not about to risk the kind of mauling i...
An ex-head of the FTC and his co-author lament the politicisation of antitrust enforcement
FOR DECADES America and Britain have told the world that for a competition-law regime to be effective and legitimate, it must...
François Hollande says Europe, abandoned by its former ally, must rearm fast
WE NEED TO be clear: while the American people may still be our friends, the Trump administration is no longer our ally. This...
Camille Grand on why Ukraine’s future turns on security guarantees
THE NOTION of security guarantees has become critical to efforts to secure a sustainable peace in Ukraine. The country demand...
It’s time to treat sexual violence in war as torture, writes a UN rapporteur
THE SOLDIERS left muddy tracks throughout the house—physical traces of the violence they unleashed that day. The boot prints ...