Sykes-Picot Process and the Middle East Mess – Time to
Redraw National Borders?
France – The New ‘Sick Man of Europe’
The Economist
on UK’s Brexit Debate
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21697858-british-economy-would-be-neither-destroyed-nor-unleashed-leaving-eu-if
Jean Pisani-Ferry on Policy Choices – Discretion versus Consistency
“One thing that
security policy and economic policy have in common is that they force
governments to choose between minimizing immediate damages and safeguarding
credibility. Economic debates also frequently place in opposition to one
another those who emphasize unconstrained judgment and those who regard
consistency as the gold standard of good policy.”