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  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    EU business regulation
    Europe needs to tackle its red tape problem

    Complex overlapping rules and burdensome reporting requirements are strangling EU growth

    White-suited technicians on a production line for semiconductor wafers at a plant in Dresden
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    US foreign policy
    America’s gathering legal storm

    Donald Trump promises the mother of all stress tests for the US rule of law

    President-elect Donald Trump
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    A year of scientific breakthroughs

    The progress of new discoveries must be celebrated

    Spiral galaxy NGC 628, located 32 million light-years away from Earth, is seen from the James Webb Space Telescope
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    The inspiring resilience of democracy

    Year of elections has shown the quest for accountable government is stronger than many had feared

    Voters queue up to cast their ballots at a polling station during the seventh and final phase of voting in India’s general election
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    The great wealth transfer

    Big inheritances are set to transform economies, markets and society

    Multi-generational family members enjoy Christmas dinner around a table
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    The reshaping of the Middle East

    Israel has achieved military success, but only peace can guarantee its security

    Palestinians, displaced from Beit Lahia, arrive in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    This Christmas, humanity needs the audacity of hope

    The message of the nativity story has meaning that resonates more broadly

    Nativity Scene. Stained glass window
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    How to solve the mental health crisis in the workplace

    Research shows that for companies, investing in employee wellbeing pays off

    Office workers in the City of London
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Central banks
    The global inflation battle is stalling and diverging

    Trump’s agenda and domestic uncertainty shroud the rate-cutting cycle

    Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    Sudan’s unfolding humanitarian crisis

    Outside powers hold the key to ending the deadly forgotten conflict

    Young Sudanese refugee girl carrying food on her head in Adre transit camp in the Wadai region of Chad
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    Canada’s political turmoil

    Trump’s tariff threat has helped to precipitate a leadership crisis

    Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, left, and Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    Justice for the victims of Assad’s atrocities in Syria

    An immediate priority is to secure evidence of crimes by the previous regime

    A man shows two ropes tied in the shape of nooses, found in the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    London’s shrinking stock market

    The travails of the LSE reflect deeper problems in the UK’s business environment

    London stock exchange
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    Why Britain needs a digital ID system

    A national identity scheme would help to modernise the state

    A smartphone displays the Australian government’s ID app
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    The mysterious promise of the quantum future

    Breakthrough could open the way to a new form of computing within years

    Google’s ‘Willow’ quantum chip
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    Lessons from a shocking CEO murder

    America’s toxic discourse means companies cannot be complacent about executive security

    Police at the scene of Brian Thompson’s killing. That he did not have any security detail when he was gunned down raises questions, especially after his widow says he had faced threats before
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    An EU-Mercosur deal worth ratifying

    Agreement with South American bloc is a chance to bolster free trade

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech during the recent Mercosur summit in Montevideo
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    Romania’s cancelled presidential election

    An alleged Russian campaign to support a nationalist candidate raises alarms

    Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu gives a statement to the press in Mogoșoaia, Romania
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    Tackling the harms of ultra-processed foods

    Consumers need clear information to make healthier choices about what they eat

    Donuts
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    A welcome end to a brutal Middle East dynasty

    Collapse of Syria’s Assad regime brings hope — and fear — to a beleaguered nation

    People celebrate on top of an armoured  tank with anti-government fighters in Damascus
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    The use and misuse of the presidential pardon

    Both Trump and Biden have abused a power that needs to be reformed

    US President Joe Biden talks with his son, Hunter Biden
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    A dangerous stand-off in Georgia

    Protesters fear a Russia-leaning government has closed the door to the EU

    Protesters light a fire at the base of a makeshift barricade erected in a street in Tbilisi during demonstrations against the government’s decision to delay EU  membership talks
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    A stress test for South Korea’s democracy

    Key institutions held firm against the president’s reckless move

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    France is on the political brink — again

    Toppling Barnier’s government would be a hefty gamble by Le Pen

    French Prime Minister Michel Barnier leaves the podium after delivering a speech as part of the French National Assembly
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    The editorial board
    How the EU should deal with Trump’s tariff threat

    Brussels must try to ensure its response to the US does not trample on trade rules

    Donald Trump and Christine Lagarde
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