Thailand and the TPP: Exports at Risk

What will the recently-struck TPP agreement mean for Thailand?

With a final agreement on the Trans Pacific Partnership reached and ratification at the national level pending, concerns over lost competitiveness are growing among nations excluded from the mega trade deal.

Viktor Orban Wades into Hungary’s Dark Waters

 

A specter is haunting Europe — the spirit of reactionary populism. Xenophobic parties are deeply entrenched in the politics of such staunchly democratic nations as France and Holland; but the greater danger lies to the east. Earlier this month, the anti-immigrant Freedom Party almost won provincial elections in reliably left-wing Vienna; in elections held Sunday, Poles gave a parliamentary majority to the right-wing Law and Justice party.