International Cooperation

Global warming is estimated to cost more than $3,000 per second, according to a 2009 study by the Global Humanitarian Forum[1]. While political leaders may be timid when it comes to taking responsibility and defending our nature, preferring to prioritise what they see as the interests of their own people to those of the world’s population, it will soon become — if it is not yet the case — in their economic interest to act for the environment.

At present, Joe Biden appears well enough equipped to pursue the majority of his agenda, staunchly if not aggressively. However, his immediate actions are not likely to be particularly significant on the global stage as Democrats initially seek to counter much of what Trump and the GOP instituted over the last four years. The 2020 election has already set the stage to expand that sphere of influence in ensuing elections, but we are unlikely to see Biden push a radical agenda with an eye toward further consolidating that power in the 2022 ‘midterm’ elections.

The 2020 United States election always shaped up to be a crucial one on multiple fronts, and certainly delivered on the simultaneous promises to produce significant uncertainty and anxiety.

Following the unfortunate surge of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the Munich European Forum e.V. decided to cancel the Spring 2020 Brussels European Forum.

International cooperation with the U.S. has become significantly more complicated in times of the Trump administration.

New South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, is at the center of a major North Korean diplomatic policy shift. Talks on the peninsula have the potential to change the political fault lines of the world’s largest nuclear powers.

Fifty days ago, on 23 June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom went to the polls to vote on whether the UK should withdraw from the European Union (the so-called “Brexit”).

The recent sudden drop in the price of Brent crude oil came as a surprise globally and has had wide-reaching effects.

The bear is a very deceptive animal. Appearing slow and inoffensive in reality the bear is one of nature’s most vicious predators. Above all its other characteristics, bears can be very dangerous to humans.