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British Conservatives in the coming weeks, voting on whether to make Boris Johnson their party leader, may be opening a can of worms.
Lee Duffield writes that the antics of the strong advocate of “Brexit” – secession from Europe – are wrapped around many problems with his track record and identity.
He says also, Johnson is one of a kind. … Read More »
Teresa May’s postponement of the show-down vote over leaving Europe, in the British parliament, has highlighted a full-scale conflict over ideologies and wills – and high risk for the country’s future.
Lee Duffield who has a long background reporting European affairs says walking out which looked simple has proved complicated and dangerous.
In the first of two articles he documents the agreement between the British government and European Union, and the fight over it which has paralysed politics in the United Kingdom. … Read More »
Weakening of accord between Europe and the United States comes at a moment when Australian-EU relations are intensifying – raising thoughts about some future test of loyalty among friends.
British secession from the European Union that is set to become formal on 19.3.19 should complicate things even more. … Read More »
Compromise talks at Brussels have seen the outlines of a deal that should, yet still might not avert the debt payment crisis looming for 30 June – achieving little else than to clarify possible terms of any permanent settlement.
How will it play with the angry, and desperate crowds in Athens, and the citizen-voters or investors in the other European states? Early signs were not so good.
Lee Duffield writes.
The new count-down for Greece to make a major debt repayment — €7.2-billion (A$8.5-billion, xe.com, 11.6.15) by the end of the month – looks more serious and final than any before; yet, so did a series of earlier approaches to a deadline … see also, Ambassador comments. … Read More »
The last days of Summer saw little easing of the heat of conflict in Eastern Ukraine. … Read More »
Sorting through problems of a troubled world in eyeball-to-eyeball contact among heads of government – at the G20 — always holds out the hope of getting some solutions though real communication.
It also means risk and high organisation; why squads of armed police this month have been deployed for exercises — with air support, in water, and rehearsing street movements — close to the bottom of the world, for the G20 summit in November.
Lee Duffield writes: