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25/06, 18:01
TRUMP'S IRAN WAR HAS DESTROYED AMERICA'S RESPECT - w/ Malcolm Nance (Pyotr Kurzin / The Global Gambit)

A recording from Pyotr Kurzin's live video

Discussion: The Global Gambit, Derek Thompson, Noahpinion, Phillips’s Newsletter, Project Syndicate, Andrew Fox, Drezner’s World, The Long Memo
28/06, 18:01
Sunday Thread + Mailbag (Halina Bennet / Slow Boring)

Ask your questions below.

Discussion: Slow Boring, Glenn Greenwald, Letters from an American, Being There, Derek Thompson, Demography Unplugged
28/06, 09:37
About 1,000 deaths in France attributable to heat wave (Laura Kayali / Politico)

Several events have been canceled or postponed in the country to avoid overloading hospitals which are already near their breaking point, especially in the Paris region.

Discussion: The Conversation, Noahpinion, EUobserver
24/06, 09:25
Burnham's policy agenda (Sam Freedman / Comment is Freed)

What we know about what he wants to do

Discussion: Comment is Freed, Mission Economics, International Intrigue, Liberal Currents, Internazionale
27/06, 15:25
Tech industry grapples with Trump’s AI about-faces (Brendan Bordelon, Cheyenne Haslett / Politico)

Silicon Valley billionaires backed Trump due to fears that Democrats would overregulate AI. Now the White House is restricting the release of new AI models — and tech lobbyists are cautiously searching for answers.

Discussion: POLITICO, Programmable Mutter, Gulf Stream Blues
27/06, 10:58
How do you solve a problem like Crimea? (Lawrence Freedman / Comment is Freed)

The big story in the Russo-Ukraine War remains the siege of Crimea.

Discussion: EUobserver, Phillips’s Newsletter
26/06, 11:39
Nexo Europa (nº 287) - Una falsa paz (Nacho Alarcón / Nexo Europa)

Esta semana repasamos el debate de los centros de deportación y toda la actualidad de la semana, con varias propuestas de la Comisión y mucho lío político en países como República Checa o Rumanía.

Discussion: Nexo Europa, La Matinal Europea
28/06, 15:11
D’autres canicules arrivent, notre exigence d’électeur doit s’intensifier (Jonathan Bouchet-Petersen / Libération)

Ceux qui ne font pas de ce défi la matrice de leur proposition politique doivent être sanctionnés pour leur incompétence, qui nous met tous en danger. On forme le vœu qu’un maximum de citoyens n’aient pas une mémoire de poisson rouge ou pire, de poisson rou...

Discussion: Le Monde
26/06, 06:02
EU's Šefčovič going into China trade talks hobbled by European leaders’ flip-flopping (Benjamin Fox / EUobserver)

Monday's meeting between Chinese commerce minister Wang Wentao and EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels has been billed by EU officials as a make-or-break event for the future of Europe’s trade with the manufacturing superpower.

Discussion: Gulf Stream Blues, POLITICO, EUobserver
24/06, 14:21
Brexit : « Le 23 juin 2016 est une date que la plupart des Britanniques souhaitent aujourd’hui ne jamais avoir connue » (Denis MacShane / Tomorrow's Europe Today)

This explaing to Brexit to French readers was published by the Nouvel Observateur 22 June

Discussion: Tomorrow's Europe Today, Le Grand Continent