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Global Month Ahead: US presidential election, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Presidential election in Indonesia.

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Dedi Dinarto
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Welcome back to the Global Month Ahead, Global Counsel's briefing on the events and stories that will define the month to come.

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Global Month Ahead: BRICS Summit, G20 Health Ministers Meeting, and Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation Summit

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Isabelle Trick
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On this episode of the Global Month Ahead, we preview the BRICS Summit, G20 Health Ministers Meeting, and Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation Summit.

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Global Month Ahead: Russia-Africa Summit, the Politics of Inflation in the UK, and NATO Leaders Summit

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Ed King
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Welcome back to the Global Month Ahead, your briefing on the biggest events to come in the month of July, hosted by Associate Director Isabelle Trick.

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A year of war in Ukraine - retaliation, relocation, and reconstruction

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Alexander Smotrov
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This week on the Global Counsel Podcast, Practice Director Alexander Smotrov, Associate Alexander van der Wusten, and Associate Magnus Obermann discuss the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on the business sector after a year of fighting. What does Ukraine's resilience mean for rebuilding efforts, why are businesses struggling to fully untangle…

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Democratic downgrade: Why 2023 could upend Tunisia’s revolution and North African geopolitics

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Magnus Obermann
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Twelve years after the Arab Spring, which emanated from Tunisia, the revolution has run out of money and steam. Eleven elections in eleven years and expensive subsidies for increasingly unaffordable wheat from Russia and Ukraine, along with other inefficiencies, have bankrupted the country politically and economically. While President Kais Saied is curtailing the powers…

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Partner, competitor or rival? Prospects of a German Zeitenwende in European China policy in 2023

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Magnus Obermann
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2022 has popularised a new German word in international politics: Zeitenwende, an “epochal tectonic shift”, emanating from Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Europe’s increased awareness of economic exposure to authoritarian regimes has coincided with the emergence of new, China-critical voices in European capitals, such as the Greens in Germany, which have…

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Setting new precedent? Eight insights into the EU’s eighth Russia sanctions package

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Magnus Obermann
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Following Russia’s mobilisation and annexation of four Ukrainian regions, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced that EU members had agreed on additional sanctions against Russia, which “will be brought forward as soon as possible.” Political agreement on the eighth EU sanctions package is expected not later than at the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council on…

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Shelving Schengen – how to unpack the EU’s steps and options to curb Russian tourism

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Magnus Obermann
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Following an agreement among EU foreign ministers in late August, on September 9th the European Council adopted a recommendation by the European Commission to suspend the 2007 EU-Russia visa facilitation agreement. As of September 12th, Russian applicants for short-term visas face a lengthier, harder and much costlier process. Similar restrictions for long-term visas…

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