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Let's liberate ourselves from Trump's so-called 'Liberation Day'

Jon Danzig |

While President Trump brands his tariff-heavy economic policy as “Liberation Day,” it is, in truth, a declaration of a global trade war. His imposition of sweeping tariffs on most imports to the United States is provoking retaliatory tariffs on American exports – an economically self-harming spiral that will ultimately make everyone poorer, including Americans. In […]

The peace project that Brexit never understood

Jon Danzig |

Sixty-eight years ago, on 25 March 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed by six European countries – France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It marked the birth of the European Economic Community, later known as the European Union. This ambitious new community emerged from the ruins of the Second World War, […]

The Suffragettes never gave up - nor will Rejoiners

Jon Danzig |

Every year on 8 March, International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, cultural, political, and social achievements of women while also recognising the ongoing fight for gender equality. And 100 years is about how long it took for women in the United Kingdom to win the right to vote.

Europe united against Putin and Trump

Jon Danzig |

The grotesque spectacle of President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance bullying and ambushing Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday, 28 February, has shocked Europe. In response, European leaders have adopted a firmer stance in support of Ukraine. From adversity, unity can emerge.

The fatal flaw in the Brexit referendum

Jon Danzig |

Months before the 2016 EU referendum, then-Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond admitted a fundamental truth: the Leave campaign couldn’t say what a vote for Brexit would mean. On that basis alone, the referendum should never have taken place in the form it did. Or, at the very least, the EU Referendum Act 2015 should have included a […]

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