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This category is Commentary, featuring expert opinions, in-depth analyses, and thought-provoking perspectives on business, leadership, and global trends. It provides critical insights into emerging challenges, innovations, and strategic solutions shaping industries and economies.

UK – the most undemocratic democracy

From the Editors The United Kingdom woke up on Friday 23 June to new realities: the Kingdom was no longer ‘united’ and its constituent parts...

What Leaders Can Learn from Both Clinton and Trump

By Katharina Balazs When connecting with an audience, Hillary Clinton leads with the head while Donald Trump comes from the heart: both hold lessons for...

Election Postmortem – The Leadership System

By Barbara Kellerman Impossible to make much sense of what happened – President-elect Donald Trump – so soon after the fact. But when the history...

Enemy within

From the Editors Europe is in the grips of anti-immigrant sentiments aimed mostly against their Muslim citizens and new émigrés. One wonders what would happen...

Is it really so bad to have a business mogul as president?

By Stephen Gibbs Donald Trump’s image as a street fighter offering a voice to the disenfranchised propelled him to victory in the US election....

It Pays to be Nice

From the Editors Ryanair’s 32% jump in their first-half year profits for this year is said to be down to Ryanair being nice to its...

Days of Glory past

From the Editors In the run up to the 12 May 2016 Anti Corruption Summit in the UK last week, the British premier let off...

A Tale of Two Cities

From the Editors The results of the May 2015 UK general elections were received with contrasting reactions from two camps. Less than 48 hours after...

The Illusion of Choice

From the Editors As Greece and the rest of the Eurozone finally reached an agreement last week for a third Greek bailout package, one cannot...

The Five Paradoxes of Brexit

By David De Cremer Brexit – despite all the promises made – is not necessarily about creating a better economic future for the country but...

Dare more AI, Germany!

By Olaf Groth, Tobias Straube  and Toni Kaatz-Dubberke We are in the middle of a cognitive revolution. Germany must be more ambitious with its strategy...

UK Government propose £4.3 billion investment in Education

In a departure from the thinking that dominated so much of the Cameron-Osbourne years, Boris Johnson has pledged to loosen purse-strings in a bid...
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Ukraine to Convene Crimea Platform Summit: Why Zelensky’s “Day of Triumph” May Come Back...

Today begins the Crimea Platform international summit, which will be convened by Ukraine in the capital Kiev. It took more than a year for...

Be a Fool! It’s What Crisis Leadership Really Needs

By David De Cremer It’s hard to see a crisis coming. Crisis situations usually arrive at moments we do not expect it and as a...

The Importance of Consumption Policy During Recession

By He Jun The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to deepen. Unlike the past financial crises, this pandemic has dealt a sudden "systemic...

Australian Regulator Wastes Millions on “Overly Aggressive” Crusade Against Job Creator GetSwift

In these difficult times, hundreds of global employees (especially in the Americas and Europe) at GetSwift can take comfort in the growth trajectory of...

The Coronavirus Threat – The issue of reopening our economies or continuing the lockdown,...

By Dr. Peter Lorange Over the last few months, almost all countries in the world have been faced with the challenge of how to handle...
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The Discovery Institute Commentary on the 2020 U.S. Election

Since the founding of the Discovery Institute in 1990, its home state of Washington has supported the democratic presidential candidate in every election. Regardless...
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Is the Nigeria vs P&ID case the Empire’s Last Stand?

By Brian Brivati The laws of international trade and investment arbitration have been weighted heavily against developing and emerging economies and in favour of developed...
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A Google Software Engineer Believes an AI has Become Sentient. If He’s Right, How...

By Oscar Davis Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software...
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Tyrant Leadership: Putin and the Psychology of Power

By John Taylor and Adrian Furnham Vladimir Putin appears to be firmly in control of his country, able to bend it to his will and...
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ChatGPT, Large Language Models (LLM) – Are Transformational Technologies Challenging our Set of Values?

By Marcelina Horrillo Husillos, Journalist and Correspondent at The European Business Review  Is the ChatBox Adding Knowledge or Leading Us to Stupidity? AI and the...
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Book Review: “World Economic Forum: The Global Shadow Elite”

By Shawn Pope For decades now, the World Economic Forum has been holding meetings that connect the global elite with one another, while being funded...
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Farmer Protests Erupting Across EU Should Be a Wakeup Call for Brussels

After pressing pause on weeks of disruption for negotiations with the federal government, Farmers’ Association President Joachim Rukwied cautioned on 18 January that the...

Europe at the ‘Hot Gates’! 

By Dr. Jack Rasmus  2500 years ago, the myth goes, 300 Spartans faced a much larger military force from the East at Thermopylae, a small mountain...
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US Tariffs: How Should Europe Respond?

By Dr Angela Garcia Calvo As Europe (and the rest of the world) continues to navigate the daily twists and turns of President Trump’s recent...
Rental Crisis in Berlin: Why Tenants Are Suing

Rental Crisis in Berlin Explained: Why Tenants Are Suing, Landlords Are Leaving, and Debt...

Berlin – The German capital, once an affordable haven for students, artists, and digital nomads, is now struggling with a less visible but equally...

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