Ten days on from President Trump’s whirlwind visit to Israel and Egypt, the images of showmanship remain, but the ceasefire (let alone talk of peace) is very evidently and predictably fraying. As I noted here when the plan was first published – its terms “almost guarantee Netanyahu will resume killing, perhaps initially at lower intensity”.
EU politics
Middle East Monitor: Divisions, elections and Assad lay bare Europe’s Syria quagmire
The European Union will convene donors next week to keep Syria on the global agenda, but as the economic and social burden of refugees on neighbouring countries mounts, the bloc is divided and unable to […]
EU politics
Common Space – Spain: Fury as leaked correspondence of Spanish judges refers to pro-independence Catalans as ‘rapists’ and ‘Nazis’
The Spanish justice system, which increasingly appears still to be beholden to its fascist past, once again shows its ugly face. Let us see if the EU adds Spain to its list of EU members […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory, Change Finance: The BlackRock Model
How the EU is choosing the wrong path on banks and climate change Read here
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