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Half of all UK legislation which imposes burdens on businesses originates from the European Union. Yet, given the depth of involvement of the EU in the UK’s regulatory regime, the British public are surprisingly ignorant ...
The 2003 Duma elections saw an overwhelming victory for President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party and drastic defeat for other political parties. Opposition calls for a recount went nowhere and many puzzles about voting trends ...
The European decision to lift the 1989 arms embargo targeted exclusively against China has encountered strong resistance from the US, particularly the Congress, and other allies including Japan. This new report from the Foreign Policy ...
The USA, EU and Britain have all recognised that domestic regulation of China’s growing energy use and power industries constitute a ‘global good’, but the EU and Britain only recently instituted bilateral programs for promoting ...
In China Goes Global, Yongjin Zhang looks at how engagement with globalisation is changing the Chinese state – and how China in turn is affecting the global economy. He argues that China’s astronomical growth figures ...
Rescuing the State: Europe’s Next Challenge is the latest in the Global Europe series of reports from British Council Brussels and the Foreign Policy Centre, and sets forward strategies for improving the effectiveness of European ...
Europe has long desired a Russia that is both stable and governed by a democratic rule of law. It is for this reason that human rights remain a cornerstone of European policy toward Russia, especially ...
The United Nations does not just need reform, it is in need of a ‘Reformation’. The composition of the Security Council is just one structural question among many other deeper issues. The scope of change ...
The war in Iraq has had a seismic impact on international perceptions of Britain and British foreign policy, yet there is a big contrast between the cacophony of debate in the United States on the ...
The need for immigrant inclusion in Europe is unavoidable. 13 million EU residents in the fifteen old member states (3.4% of the population) are non naturalized immigrants. Globalization, labour market and demograhic pressures make inward ...