Opinion

The conflict in Iran is yet another reminder that the international economy still hinges on fragile fossil fuel chokepoints. The Strait of Hormuz remains one…

As we navigate the midpoint of the European Commission’s “Digital Decade”, the release of the 2025 Consumer Digital Empowerment Index (CDEI) provides an empirical baseline…

An old Arabic proverb says patience is the key to relief. In moments of crisis, it is also the rarest political virtue. Over the past…

The debate around the digital euro is often confined to the realm of payment innovation, treated as just another tool alongside cards and apps.  In…

In only a handful of years, artificial intelligence has moved from laboratory curiosity to strategic backbone. It shapes economic growth, military planning and the subtle…

Gold and silver are tumbling on international markets, and the explanation is more prosaic than the drama suggests. What looks like a collapse of safe…

For decades, the relationship between Italy and Germany has been treated as a fact of European life: economically vital, politically secondary, rarely strategic. That assumption…

The EU’s recent trade push looks less like a sprint off the starting blocks and more like a decisive gear change on the home straight….

One year into Donald Trump’s return to the White House, it is already clear that this is not a presidency that lends itself to early…

As 2026 begins, the international system remains locked in conflict. Hopes for a New Year reset have already faded.

For years, Brexit was portrayed as a British story — a narrative of sovereignty, economic promises and political upheaval. Yet its most enduring impact has…

A decade after the referendum, the economic picture is unmistakable. Britain is poorer for having left the EU.