Funding to Europe-based startups settled year over year in 2024. Funding reached $51 billion, down by 5% year over year from $54 billion invested in 2023, Crunchbase data shows.
Europe’s startups raised 16% of total global…
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As Russia and China Step Up Arctic Presence, Greenland Grows In Importance For U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has once again kicked up a storm with his pursuit of Greenland, this time refusing to rule out the use of force to gain control of the Arctic island from ally Denmark for national-security…
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December 2024 — Monthly analysis of Russian fossil fuel exports and sanctions – Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air
By Vaibhav Raghunandan and Petras Katinas
Russian fossil fuel revenues rose for the first time in two months to cap the year, however coal exports crash to lowest level since the invasion
Key findings
- In 2024, Russian revenues…
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The Impact of Sanctions and Alliances on Russian Military Capabilities
This article addresses the disagreements surrounding the efficacy of sanctions regimes imposed on Russia by numerous countries. To achieve this aim, satellite imagery was purchased from Maxar through European Space Imaging (EUSI) and used in…
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Moldova is the real loser from the end of Russian gas transit through Ukraine
A combination of circumstance, Russian malign influence, and its own failure to prepare has left Moldova the country hardest…
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Do Russians Really Support the War in Ukraine?
In the summer and fall of 2023, three researchers from a small Russian collective called the Public Sociology Laboratory, or P.S. Lab, travelled to three different regions across Russia, to find out what people thought about the war in Ukraine. A…
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Europe could be torn apart by new divisions
Europe’s divisions were once simple. Fiscal policy and sunshine? That was a north-south carve-up: grey, abstemious north; sparkling, spendthrift south. Migration and wealth? Newcomers were mostly tolerated in the rich west and despised in the…
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Dollars and Sense: America’s Interest in a Ukrainian Victory | American Enterprise Institute
Key Points
- Supporting Ukraine to victory against Russia is in the best interest of the United States.
- A world in which Russia prevails would be more dangerous and more expensive for…
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The edge of anarchy – New Statesman
The world stands on a precipice, and the trends are not good. It was the United States whose economic wherewithal rescued Western civilisation in the Second World War and the Cold War. But whereas in 1945 the US…
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