In 2016 Latinos will decide who gets to the White House
The number of eligible Latinos (those who can register on the electoral census) should account for 13% of the total, 2% more than in the last presidential elections.
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The disgrace of trading refugee quotas
But to offer those opposing refugee quotas an ‘easy way out’ simply further diminishes the idea of solidarity in the European Union, both inward and outward.
Impossible Syria, in less than 600 words
Syria: 320,000 dead up to June and 4,088,099 refugees since 2011, Neither Arabs nor Westerners, nor anyone else for that matter, have a clear strategy.
Savage continent: the longer term will not resolve the shorter
Europe is forgetting where it has come from: a savage continent, but also the one that gave birth to the Enlightenment and Human Rights.
The world trembled with China
China has awakened, or reawakened. The present problem is that the world trembles faced with the possible scuffing of China, of its weaknesses.
Europe gets more unicorns
Although improving on them, Europe is short of unicorns, technology startups that have increased quickly in value by more than one billion USD by fundraising.
The New Silk Road passes through Iran
The land part of the New Silk Road project runs through northern Iran, opening up possibilities for cooperation between the US and Beijing.
Bad is better than worst, but Europe has lost out in the endeavour
The Eurozone, and by extension the EU adn Europe, has avoided a serious trip-up with Greece, although the danger is by no means past.
The Caliphate, an idea with a territory
Daesh is going for effective control of territory: hence using the name ‘State’, since the fundamental objective of its leader is to establish a caliphate.
The euro: uncertainty about tomorrow, but plans for 2025
We do not know what is going to happen to the Greeks and the Euro zone in less than a week, but the EU’s institutions are already thinking and planning ahead for 2025.
Morón Air Base: strategic interests and the culture of security
Rota naval base and a now revitalised Morón Air Base provide the US with a logistics platform for the South and East, while it is also in Spain’s interest.
No longer emerging economies, downwardly mobile
The emerging economies have stopped doing so, or at least they will do so much more slowly, according to the latest report of the World Bank.