The EU’s latest existential crisis might be its biggest one yet
When the European Union’s 27 leaders last managed to gather in person, they didn’t even talk about the coronavirus. It was Feb. 21, the day Italy recorded its first fatality from the disease. They haggled unsuccessfully for 28 hours over the EU’s notoriously complicated budget. ...
The shape of a Japan-U.K. free trade agreement
While Tokyo never wanted to see Brexit happen, it now has to make the most of it. The resilience that helped the world rebound from the Great Recession will be needed again with COVID-19.
U.S. shifts gears, urging people to wear masks in bid to combat coronavirus
The U.S. policy change comes amid concerns from health officials that those without symptoms can spread the virus.
The shape of a Japan-U.K. free trade agreement
While Tokyo never wanted to see Brexit happen, it now has to make the most of it.
Wannabe autocrats love the COVID-19 pandemic
In Hungary and Poland — as in Israel and elsewhere — liberty suddenly seems cheap. Even in a pandemic, it shouldn’t be.
Four priorities for a global pandemic strategy
The world initially met the COVID-19 crisis in an uncoordinated fashion, with too many countries ignoring the warning signs and going it alone. It is now clear that the only way out of it is together.
Europe’s fractured union came under new pressure this weekend, as Italy and Spain pleaded for urgent European help to withstand the virus ordeal but Germany showed reluctance to plunge into any radical new solutions. The north-south divide that has dogged the European Union for years ...
V4+Japan: A new mode of cooperation or a doomed project?
Much has been written about the reinvigoration of the Japan-EU relationship after signing the strategic and economic partnership in the last few years. But Japanese rapprochement to the EU does not end in Brussels. In recent years, another European platform has been activated by ...
Biggest factory shutdown since WWII cripples virus-hit U.S. and Europe
The economic impact of the growing coronavirus outbreak is shifting from service driven industries like hotels and restaurants to the manufacturing sector on both sides of the Atlantic, leading to a synchronized shutdown of heavy industry that historians and industry experts say is unlike ...
U.K. has advantage in trade talks with EU
The EU member governments and commission bureaucrats will learn a hard lesson if they consider Britain easy to deal with.
Asia urges vigilance to maintain hard-won infection drops
Millions of people began holing up at home, stocking up on supplies and keeping a wary eye on how close they got to friends and neighbors as fear of the coronavirus spread to more places around the world Monday. Resorts closed on the Las Vegas ...
'Social distancing' in a pandemic: What does it mean in practice and for society?
As fears over COVID-19 grow and health authorities worldwide urge or even force people to isolate themselves, "social distancing," or shakai kyori senryaku in Japanese, has become a buzz phrase online. But what does that really look like and what is the cost of the ...
