Oil prices surged Sunday evening to the highest levels since President Donald Trump returned to office as energy markets digested the U.S. military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities — and the risk that Tehran may try to disrupt the flow of…
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Oil price surge turbocharges commodity market rally after US bombs Iranian nuclear facilities
The prospect of all-out war in the Middle East has turbocharged a rally across commodity markets this year, with traders enjoying the best returns since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
While a surge in gold and other precious metal prices…
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Europe’s liberals reckon with German misfits in their ranks
Once-powerful liberal parties have taken drubbings at elections in Germany and France over the past year. In Brussels, that pain could yet continue.
At the European Parliament elections last year, the liberal-centrist Renew Europe group was…
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Donald Trump’s drug plan risks higher medicine prices in Europe
European healthcare systems face paying more for drugs or losing access to new treatments as a result of Donald Trump’s push for the global medicines industry to cut prices in the US, industry experts have warned.
Global drugmakers are in talks…
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De-Americanizing NATO: Could We? – CEPA
Let us not be lulled by the illusions sometimes perpetuated by the conventional and polite language of diplomacy: the presence of the United States within the Atlantic alliance has become increasingly problematic.
This is…
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Europe’s Two-Front War | Foreign Affairs
In the first half of the twentieth century, Europe was the most militarized and violent region on the planet. By the early twenty-first, it had become the least militarized and least violent, a model of peace, cooperation, and transnational…
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“Ukraine war was unfortunately necessary” — Russia in Global Affairs
“Putin Likes Trump”: Fyodor Lukyanov on the USA, Current Conflicts and the Future of Europe
Fyodor A. Lukyanov
These days we remember the Yalta Conference,…
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