BBC: Ukraine’s exhausted troops in Russia told to cling on and wait for Trump

Last night’s EU Council meeting once again failed to agree a rescue package large enough to meet the scale of the coronavirus crisis – and hung Europe’s peripheral states out to dry. Read here

A good summary of the acute economic problems currently facing Turkey. Read here Wikimedia Commons

“The Paradise Papers emphasises, yet again, that the damaging effect of offshore is much more pervasive that robbing countries of tax. Offshore creates a two-tier business environment, hiding ownership and in general throwing an opaque […]