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Chinese President Xi, Russia’s Putin, Hold Video Meeting

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met Wednesday via video conference, stressing their strong alliance amid both countries’ deteriorating relations with the west. “A new model of cooperation has been formed between our countries, based, among other things, on such principles as non-interference in internal affairs, …

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Perspectives On Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue – OpEd

We ought not to consider The Balkans a region completely immune from potential crises and conflicts. The symptoms of this assumption are clearly visible in the current political situation in Bosnia, which is risking to enter into a new conflict with unforeseeable consequences, even 25 years after the Dayton Peace …

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Will We See Deflation In The Next 12 Months? – Analysis

I’m not worried at this point about a deflationary spiral, but I see what, to my view, is a plausible scenario where the CPI actually goes negative in the next twelve months. I go through the categories and my predictions component by component below, but there are four main items …

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Anna Słojewska: Chybiona szarża

Pomysł angażowania kapitału politycznego Polski do walki o likwidację czy jakieś fundamentalne zmiany w unijnym systemie handlu emisjami jest nietrafiony z kilku powodów. Propozycja Solidarnej Polski, by zlikwidować unijny system handlu emisjami (ETS), jest niemądra i nierealistyczna. Jeśli premier ją podejmie i będzie przekonywał europejskich partnerów do znaczących zmian w …

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Så dags att vakna nu, Linde och Dadgostar

Gaspriset rusar igen efter att den nya tyska regeringen har uttalat sig om den rysk-tyska gasledningen Nordstream 2. Ansökan uppfyller inte kraven för godkännande, heter det. Men den egentliga orsaken är troligen en annan: Så länge Ryssland hotar med en ny invasion av Ukraina kan inte Tyskland ge grönt ljus …

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Rightsizing in the Middle East

The U.S. Military Should Pull Back but Not Pull Out Since declaring his candidacy for president, Joe Biden, like his two Oval Office predecessors, has made it clear that he wants to rebalance the United States’ military presence in the Middle East. During the 2020 campaign, Biden pledged to “end …

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