George Weidenfeld is Founder and President of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Co-Founder of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme.
Feb 18, 2014 emphasizes the need for Europe to avoid taking sides in the region's myriad conflicts.
While Boris Johnson, the likely successor to British Prime Minister Theresa May, takes his country down a path of diminished trade, the European Union is negotiating one of the largest free-trade agreements in the world. One really has to wonder what the "buccaneering" Brexiteers have to complain about.
For months, the world looked on as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attempted to reverse the outcome of the city's municipal election. But now that Erdoğan's party has been defeated once again (and massively so this time around), his fundamental weakness has been exposed – as has that of populist authoritarians everywhere.
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