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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Angela Merkel Suffers Backlash against Her Immigration Policy
Merkel's high price for open-door immigration policy (AP Image/Markus Schreiber)
Europe after Brexit
CES Senior Fellow Sir Paul Tucker co-authors a report that leaves aside the issue of EU reform and focuses on the desirable EU-UK relationship after Brexit.
New World (Dis)Order
In 1991 George H.W. Bush promised a “New World Order.” A quarter of a century later, we’re finally catching a glimpse of it—like it or not. (AP Photo: Evan Vucci)
The week democracy died
Dark days this summer showed how government by the people—beset by illiberal populists on one side and undemocratic elites on the other—is poised for extinction. (AP Photo: Frank Augstein)
The Roots of Brexit
In their quest for the Conservative leadership, two rival Eton schoolboys have managed to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union—the first by calling for a referendum in 2013 in order to consolidate his hold over the leadership, and the second by joining the leadership of the Vote Leave campaign in order to hasten his rival’s downfall. An article by CES Resident Faculty Peter A. Hall.
Jocelyne Cesari in The Guardian
The European Connection: A Harvard Undergraduate's Perspective
The European Connection: A Harvard Undergraduate's Perspective
Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Tobias Schumacher, CES Short-Term Fellow, outlines why the ‘black garden’ will not blossom any time soon
Germany’s Costly Fiscal Fetish
The European Central Bank is under heavy attack in Germany, a country that has long prided itself on defending the principle of central-bank independence.