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Government borrowing is unsustainable in the United States and much of Europe. There is also huge pressure to increase spending on climate, defence and ageing populations. Some mixture of higher taxes...

Other governments have so far taken three main approaches to dealing with Donald Trump’s trade threats. China hit back hard at the US president’s tariffs and got him to back down partly. Canada...

TINOS: The European Union will be marginalised if it continues to shrink compared to other parts of the world. Two former Italian prime ministers, Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi, are proposing...

LONDON- The process of working out sovereign debts is not working. Countries such as Zambia are twisting in the wind because of long delays in restructuring their borrowings. It is harder to get all...

Ukraine needs cash to keep defending itself against Russian aggression. The United States and European Union are struggling to keep writing cheques to the country. They’re also reluctant to hand...

Just stop oil production — and, for that matter, gas and coal supply. Then there will be hardly any greenhouse gas emissions. Mission accomplished.It’s a seductive theory. With global emissions...

The shipping industry emits 2.9% of the world's greenhouse gases. It has also largely escaped taxation because what happens on the high seas is not in the jurisdiction of any single government.These...

The Group of Seven rich countries needs a stronger pitch to non-aligned nations. A strategy based on peace, prosperity and protecting the planet could work. It would certainly be more effective than...