The dust is settling on what may be an historic EU Summit in Brussels on 9 December, with a potentially far-reaching agreement on a step towards greater fiscal integration of 26 EU member states, from which the UK alone has chosen to be excluded.
Ministers, the media, business leaders and the civil service in India openly describe 2011 as the worst year for governance in India’s recent history and a political inflection point in the seemingly unstoppable upward trajectory of the last decade.
As much as any European election in recent memory, the political economy for the new Spanish conservative government looks extraordinarily limiting. New Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will have – and will expect to have -no political honeymoon either domestically or in Europe.
The G20 Summit in Cannes last weekend told us a lot about the state of global economic diplomacy at the end of 2011. The sweeping French agenda for their Presidency was slimmed down not just by events, but by the hugely difficult reality of consensus building in a group as eclectic as the...
