George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations. A pioneer of the hedge-fund industry, he is the author of many books, including The Alchemy of Finance, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means, and The Tragedy of the European Union.
Economic reality is beginning to catch up with the false hopes of many Britons that the UK's withdrawal from the EU will not reduce their standard of living. The Brexit referendum cannot be undone, bu… read more
Today’s European Union needs both salvation and radical reinvention. Saving the EU must take precedence, because Europe is in existential danger; but, as French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized du… read more
Russian warplanes are bombing the civilian population of Aleppo, the country’s most populous city, to assist Syrian government forces attempting to take control of rebel-held areas. The world must not… read more
Rather than uniting to resist the populist threat they all face, EU member states have played into its hands, by becoming increasingly unwilling to cooperate with one another. Nowhere is this trend cl… read more
Just as Brexit was a negative shock, the response to it – a massive swing in popular sentiment in favor of the European Union – has been a positive shock. Europe's leaders should seize the opportunity… read more
Brexit is likely to cause Britain's economy and people to suffer significantly in the short to medium term, owing to profound uncertainty over the terms of divorce and the future of the UK itself. But… read more
The EU’s first expulsion of refugees has exposed the fundamental flaws in its new migration policy. While the forcible return of asylum-seekers to Turkey has caught the world’s attention, an equally t… read more
Epidemiologists know that spending a large amount of money up front can be far more effective than spending the same amount over several years. The same approach must be applied to the migrant crisis,… read more
The leaders of the US and the EU are making a grievous error in thinking that President Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a potential ally in the fight against the Islamic State. Putin’s aim is to foster the… read more
Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of closed societies – from fascist dictatorships to mafia states – are on the rise. Because elected leaders failed to meet voters’ legitimate expectatio… read more
The Islamic State’s leaders know that their days in Iraq and Syria are numbered, which is why they are transferring their forces to Libya and stepping up attacks in the West. As 2016 gets underway, th… read more
