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During last weekend’s summit meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders in Peru, President Obama made the case that failure to sign on to TPP would “undermine our position across the region”. It would...

South Korea’s nuclear industry has emerged in recent years to become a significant player in what is a competitive market. Its biggest achievement so far has been the $20 billion contract to...

The issue of immigration is currently a hot debated topic and is often put in connection with globalisation and the current political backlash. Both are actually two sides of the same coin. If goods...

It took a great deal of negotiation efforts, but the European Commission implementing decision on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield is finally out. A step the...

Sir Geoffrey Owen is a business historian, former Editor of the Financial Times, and Senior Fellow at the London School Economics, Michael Hopkins is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research for...

It was the “Walkman” which transformed Sony from a relatively unknown small company in the 1970s to the prominent global giant that we know today. Given its popular reputation, it is remarkable...

“Gangnam Style” by Psy has been a seemingly unstoppable musical force around the world. With over 2.5 billion clicks (as of February 2016) this song has been YouTube's most watched video since...

It was about time. Pre-internet rules on data protection were not fit for our new interconnected reality. The core institutions of the European Union have finally set in stone an agreement which...

There is a fascinating twist in the current European debate on cultural industries and the Single Digital Market: it has been dominated by the transatlantic dimension. Europeans are still measuring...

Vincent Van Gogh is regarded as one of the greatest artists and his paintings are some of the world’s most expensive. However, while he was alive he only sold one piece, The Red Vineyard near...