U.S. President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful attempt to repeal Obamacare raises the question of how he will approach another of his targets: the Dodd-Frank Act that aims to protect consumers from self-serving financial services. What is the purpose of these financial...
Under Donald Trump, the U.S. is mounting an assault on free trade that could undermine the system that has underpinned global prosperity for years. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at a news conference at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors...
This is part of a series of articles by students at King’s College London on France’s presidential election and on major political issues in Europe and the United States. By Clara Piacenza Far-right leader Marine Le Pen is a candidate who cannot be counted...
By Robert Holloway The stakes in France’s election this spring could not be higher. When French voters elect their next president on May 7, the fate of the European Union, of the euro currency and of a decades-long push for continental integration will be in the...
Donald Trump shocked Europeans when he called NATO “obsolete.” But the threat the continent faces from Russia is not conventional war. Estonian soldiers during NATO exercise near Vilnius, Lithuania, 2 December 2016.(EPA/Olivier Hoslet) Is Donald Trump...