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UK election raises uncertainty for Thai migrants
News, Published on 02/05/2015
» The ground-breaking May 7 UK general election does not only have implications for the British. Thais could be affected too.
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Europe's year from hell
News, Published on 23/12/2015
» By any measure, it has been <i>annus horribilis</i> for the European Union (EU). And if Britons vote to leave the bloc, next year could be worse.
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Why 20% will be this year's big number
News, Published on 05/01/2016
» If you want to pick a number for 2016, how about 20%? Look around the politics of the Western world, and you'll see that a lot of once-unthinkable ideas and fringe candidates suddenly have a genuine chance of succeeding. The odds are usually somewhere around one in five -- not probable, but possible. This "20% world" is going to set the tone in democracies on both sides of the Atlantic -- not least because, as anybody who bets on horse racing will tell you, eventually one of these longshots is going to canter home.
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'Brexit' bandwagon spurs EU fear of copycat demands
News, Ian Wishart, Published on 12/02/2016
» If David Cameron leaves next week's European Union (EU) summit with a deal to overhaul the terms of Britain's membership, many of his counterparts will breathe a sigh of relief -- and dig out their own wishlists.
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EU members set to face two biggest crises at summit
News, Published on 18/02/2016
» To listen to harried European Union chief Donald Tusk is to realise that the leaders of the 28 member nations are facing the prospect of an unhinged European Union if this week's summit goes badly wrong.
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EU's real hurdle is the Franco-German impasse
News, Published on 23/02/2016
» Forget Brexit. The British are not the real obstacle to European integration, whether they choose to stay in the European Union (EU) with a "special status" or leave.
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If sterling goes down due to 'Brexit', it's taking the euro with it
News, Published on 24/02/2016
» Britain's referendum on its membership of the European Union isn't just a threat to the pound. It's raising currency-market risks across the continent.
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British petulance is shaping European Union's future
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/02/2016
» What would you call a country that called for "a structure under which [Europe] can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom ... a kind of United States of Europe" at the end of the Second World War (Winston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join that structure when its European neighbours actually began building it (European Economic Community, or EEC, 1957)?
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Sanctioned deaths
News, Postbag, Published on 25/02/2016
» In your editorial "Officials in a haze", (BP, Feb 23), concerning the smoke haze in northern Thailand that has been increasing since 2007, you pin most of the blame on large agro-companies burning vegetated land to clear it for corn plantations, and the accompanying ill-effects on people's health.
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EU's Tower of Babel
News, Published on 01/03/2016
» It's little wonder the European Union (EU) can't find common solutions to Europe's urgent problems when its main members are having such different national conversations.
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