A good time to be young in Europe?
This is the time to future proof the European Union, writes Geoff Kitney. For Anglophiles, these are disconcerting times. In their worldview, recent political events have jarred and turned upside down deeply…
June 22, 2017
This is the time to future proof the European Union, writes Geoff Kitney. For Anglophiles, these are disconcerting times. In their worldview, recent political events have jarred and turned upside down deeply…
June 1, 2017
The United States and Britian have turned inward and away from their places in the international order. Germany and France are preparing to take their place, Geoff Kitney writes. Two great voices…
May 12, 2017
May and Macron are treading diverging paths in the ever-complex Brexit era, writes Geoff Kitney. Two events in recent days have perfectly captured the essence of Brexit and the future of…
April 27, 2017
It would be consistent with the nationalistic mood of the times if, whatever the outcome of the election, France seeks to tilt the rear view mirror to see its colonial past in…
April 10, 2017
It is going to be a hard road to haul to achieve the great Britain of Brexit dreams, writes Geoff Kitney. In all the discussion about what sort of Britain will emerge…
March 20, 2017
Australia illustrates all that can go wrong with bad planning, poor decision making and putting politics ahead of the national interest, writes Geoff Kitney. It is not only its climate and beaches…
March 8, 2017
Political leaders failed dismally to recognise that radical political and economic changes were making their constituents increasingly uneasy, Geoff Kitney writes. When Donald Trump delivered his landmark, first speech to the United…
February 24, 2017
Soon Britain will be going it alone on trade at a time of resurgent protectionism. A parliamentary committee has been told it is ill-equipped for the challenge of quickly finding export markets,…
February 6, 2017
United States President Donald Trump will find that negotiating new trade deals is a much more difficult process than dumping existing deals, Geoff Kitney writes. It has been said that if you ask 20…
January 19, 2017
When Theresa May declared in her landmark Brexit speech this week that it was her fervent wish that Europe should succeed with the European Union (EU) project, it struck me how strange…