Current Affairs

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  • Germany’s new beginning

    Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz argues that to avoid a new cold war in a multi-polar era, will be dependent on a policy of rebuilding Germany’s armed forces and taking a multilateral approach towards the world. But the resounding argument is determined by resources fed into concerns of whether Germany can take a lead in Europe,…

  • Europe immigration

    There are 447.2 million inhabitants living in the European Union, 23.7 million non European Union citizens and there were 37.5 million people born outside the European Union, respectively 5.3 percent of the European Unions population and 8.4 percent of all European Union inhabitants. The European Union argues that the share of the foreign born population…

  • Sweden’s move to the right

    Sweden a country known for openness transparency and gender equality, has changed, there is a new populist government that has opened the door to the far right.  There is an image of Sweden that it is a socialist utopia, but there is something else, it is rebelling against immigrants, taxes and change has come from…

  • Korber Stiftung – Conference in Berlin

    With Britain gone from Europe, there needs to be a coordinated voice in Europe, and the Berlin Forum, hosted by Korber Stiftung, explores the themes and concerns that are key elements to Germany’s foreign policy. Critical ideas and conceptual understanding of events in Ukraine have shaken Europe, and has challenged the essence of European hegemony because…

  • Chinese and British Imperialism

    John Darwin argued that a formal empire could be defined by a sustained effort to assimilate a country to the political, economic or cultural system of another power. (John Darwin (1997) SS 9.2). Britain a maritime power and China a land-based empire, initially took significantly different approaches to the expansion of their empires and how…

  • Disraeli 1872 Crystal Palace

    Disraeli’s speech to the National Union of Conservative Associates, on 24th June 1872, was a reaction to the changing demographic of the Conservatives traditional supporters, the Liberals view on the values of empire and economy and whether Britain needed an empire to counter the perceived threat posed by American economic growth, Germany’s defeat of France in…