Week 9 of 2021 has seen policy advancements at the domestic and international levels, while the continent struggles to advance with mass vaccination against Covid-19. The EU has made use of its new sanctions regime for the first time, to sanction...
The Economist / Violence against women is a scourge on poor countries “I did not get pregnant by choice” says Annunciata, a mother of eight children in Mweso, eastern Congo. Her husband often forced himself on her. “Husbands do that,” she says...
China’s Two Sessions, the annual gathering of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC), started this week. 2021 is a momentous occasion for the Communist Party, which will...
South China Morning Post – Teddy Ng / China’s ‘two sessions’: key takeaways from the opening of the National People’s Congress Li said the central government would ensure the “comprehensive and accurate” implementation of “one country, two systems”...
Euractiv – Alexandra Brzozowski and Vlagyiszlav Makszimov / Orbán’s Fidesz leaves EPP Group before being kicked out Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party is leaving the European People Party’s (EPP) faction in the European Parliament, the Hungarian prime...
The New York Times – Max Fisher / Vaccine passports, Covid’s next political flash point The idea is to allow families to reunite, economies to restart and hundreds of millions of people who have received a shot to return to a degree of...
The Guardian – Kim Willsher / Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption When the verdict came, it reduced the Paris court to a stunned silence: Nicolas Sarkozy was guilty of corruption and influence peddling...
Week 8 of 2021 has seen a number of developments in both domestic and international policy domains at the EU level. The European Council met virtually on Thursday and Friday, to discuss vaccine supplies, EU defence, and others. The discussion on...