Articles

15.03.16 Publication: Project Syndicate

TOKYO – The rise of billionaire Donald Trump in the US presidential race has been met with a mixture of horror and fascination. As his campaign, once...

10.03.16 Publication: La Stampa

There is something very disturbing about doing a deal, involving billions of euros and a lot of concessions, with a country whose government has become so...

05.02.16 Publication: Project Syndicate

LONDON – Price movements as large and rapid as those that have upended oil markets since June 2014 are sure to cause pain to some and benefit others—yet...

25.01.16 Publication: Nikkei Business

The year has begun with falling stockmarkets, falling oil prices and falling forecasts about growth in the world economy. What should international businesses...

19.01.16 Publication: La Stampa

The collapse of the “Schengen” passport-free travel zone would destroy the single market and the euro, according to Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the...

30.12.15 Publication: La Stampa

It will be a decision that shapes Britain, and its place in the world, for decades to come, perhaps for the whole of the 21st century. It will be a decision...

30.12.15 Publication: La Stampa

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22.12.15 Publication: Project Syndicate

LONDON – The new fault line in politics, according to Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front, is between globalists and patriots. It is...

21.12.15 Publication: Wake Up Europe

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08.12.15 Publication: La Stampa

The only thing that is “shocking” about the vote in Sunday’s French regional elections for the far-right Front National is that anyone in politics or the...

23.11.15 Publication: Nikkei Business

Terrorist atrocities are always a shock, whenever and wherever they happen. That is their purpose. On Friday November 13th I was in London attending a dinner...

20.11.15 Publication: La Stampa

Frau Merkel is, of course, completely different from Herr Schmidt. He was arrogant and plain-speaking, the opposite of diplomatic, while she is diffident and...

17.11.15

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14.11.15

The best thing India did after theco-ordinated bombing and shooting attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 that left 164 people dead was to take time to think and...

05.11.15 Publication: Nikkei Business

From my perspective, one of the most important events of next year will be an event that we do not even yet know for sure whether it will take place in 2016,...

30.10.15 Publication: La Stampa

It is an act typical of an old Communist regime where officials think that if they send out a decree, things will actually happen: 35 years after China...

19.10.15 Publication: Nikkei Business

There are many uncertainties in economic and political life. But here at least are two things I thought were certainties in Japan. One is that the government...

02.10.15 Publication: Politico

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02.10.15 Publication: Politico

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01.10.15 Publication: Project Syndicate

Throughout Europe’s refugee crisis, which has been building for well over two years, warnings about the threat to the European Union’s precious Schengen...

26.09.15 Publication: La Stampa

What makes for successful leadership, in these troubled times? America has for the past few days been witnessing two very different foreign leaders: one from...

21.09.15 Publication: Financial Times

The UK’s new opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn hasnow clarified, in the FT no less , his view of British membership of the EU. David Cameron is unlikely to do...

13.09.15 Publication: La Stampa

When the Partito Democratico suffered its surprise general election defeat in 2013, the party eventually indicated its desire for change by choosing a...

02.09.15 Publication: La Stampa

How awkward it is to have ministers who speak freely to the media using words you cannot control. That is the eternal truth for prime ministers everywhere, but...