Bedevilled by debt and facing high unemployment, weak growth, and high deficits, the second-largest economy in the Eurozone was struggling to overcome the effects of the financial crisis. That struggle continues even as voters prepare to choose Hollande’s successor.
In substance and in tone, Budget 2017 takes a very different approach to international affairs than its predecessor.
Critics of proportional representation say it gives a platform to extremism. Is that true?
With Canada’s New International Assistance Policy and Budget 2017 around the corner, the Trudeau government is expected to offer a new focus for foreign aid, if not much more funding.
We are having the wrong conversation about Canadian defence spending.
With Donald Trump in the White House, NAFTA is likely to be renegotiated—and unlikely to be fixed.
What’s the next step for the Women’s March on Washington?
The cabinet shuffle gave Canada’s trade officials a new hand, but few new cards. Ross Linden-Fraser offers his take on what the changes can – and cannot – do for the country’s trade agenda.