Editorials - Page 10 of 21

Our New Year’s Resolution

Six points that can help guide personal and collective thinking and action for the common global good in 2019

How not to protect the environment

For several weeks thousands of French citizens have been protesting on the streets of Paris and all around the country against President Macron’s plan to further increase the tax on gasoline. The aim is allegedly is to deter the use of fossil fuels that create CO2 emissions and thus contribute to intensifying climate change. The…

Rethinking the global: the start of a new era for Katoikos

Four years after its establishment, Katoikos is embarking on a new phase by joining the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS), a Brussels-based not-for-profit public utility foundation. The Foundation focuses on the development of a “Grand Narrative” for a fairer and more inclusive globalisation. According to the motto used by FOGGS, this Grand Narrative…

President Trump announces his final decision on removing the US from the Paris Accord in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 1, 2017

The hostile climate of unhinged American exceptionalism

Trump’s announcement on 1 June that he would pull the US out of the Paris Agreement signals a dangerous turn in the attitude of “the one remaining superpower”.

Election campaign posters of Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron

Macron marching on

Macron has defused the nationalist bomb at the foundations of Europe. But a lot more needs to be done to set France and Europe on a positive path.

The sick man of Turkey

The EU and other international organisations cannot remain idle in the face of the increasingly blatant violations of basic democratic norms in Turkey.

Jean-Claude Juncker speaks before the European Parliament in Brussels

Mr Juncker’s White Paper

The European Commission issued a “White Paper on the Future of Europe” as its contribution to the soul-searching in Brussels.

Donald Trump preparing to be sworn in as President

Cold plunge into the Trump era

On Friday, 20 January 2017, Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America. He used the occasion to remind his fellow US citizens and the rest of the world of his campaign promises, summing up with the nationalist slogans “America First” and “Make America Great Again”. The new President did not lose time before starting to implement some of those promises.