Opinion

Under its new leadership, the European Union has promised to step up its engagement on the world stage to ensure that it does not become a pawn in an escalating Sino-American great-power rivalry; to succeed, it will have to strike a careful balance between economic priorities and its own security, …

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What kind of capitalism do we want? That may be the defining question of our era; if we want to sustain our economic system for future generations, we must answer it correctly, writes Klaus Schwab, the founder and the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. Generally speaking, we have …

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The forced departure of the Central European University from Hungary is a sad and dangerous episode; unless the EU starts standing up to autocrats like Viktor Orbán and protecting citizens’ rights better, it won’t be the last, László Bruszt, a professor of political science at Central European University, writes. On …

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Since taking office in 2017, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has cultivated an image as a champion of the European Union at a time of shifting global power balances and resurgent populism; but his latest diplomatic efforts risk alienating Germany and other key EU players, Sławomir Sierakowski, the founder of …

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The Estonian authorities are keen to protect the Estonian language, although one glaring use of English in Tallinn seems to have been given a free pass; Adam Rang questions whether there is a deeper problem behind this. I love flying into Tallinn Airport, but there’s one thing about it now …

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Eva-Maria Merjel, the CCO at Thorgate, an Estonian software company, highlights the ways to create a working culture that makes people thrive. As the Chief Culture Officer at Thorgate, I am responsible for a variety of areas from hiring and peoples’ development, internal communication as well as taking care of …

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While the Russian president Vladimir Putin wants to be able to tout Russian achievements in science and innovation, he also wants to enrich himself as much as possible. And, as the security forces’ recent raid on the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow showed, if he must choose, money comes first, …

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To fight populism, we need to adopt a response not just for coping, but for overcoming and ultimately restoring decency and civilised discourse – laughter, the former president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, said in a speech at a conference dedicated to 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin …

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The only way to get ahead of a crisis as large as climate change is through groundbreaking technological innovation in clean energy and low-carbon technologies, writes Ambroise Fayolle, the Vice President of the European Investment Bank. Because it poses an existential threat to humanity, climate change represents the bad kind …

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