Author: Chris Anu

The fight over the next EU budget is about “how much”. For clean technologies, it should also be about “who does what”. In response to changing needs, Europe has incrementally expanded its cleantech finance toolbox by adding new tasks to existing funds and new instruments alongside them. The parallel negotiations of the new EU budget…

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There is a question Africans must begin asking the West without apology: Do you really want democracy in Africa—or do you simply want African regimes that serve your interests? Because increasingly, Western policy toward Africa presents a contradiction that has become very visible and impossible to ignore. In Washington and European capitals, the immigration debate has hardened. Africans who crossed oceans and deserts running from sit-tide dictatorships and searching for safety and opportunity are increasingly told: Go home. Fix your countries. Respect immigration laws. Fair enough. But then there is a question within the immigration context or debate that nobody…

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The head of Germany’s largest bank warned that foreign investors may be driven away following victories in state elections last month by parties on the political extremes. The AfD, which wants to restrict immigration and send asylum seekers home, scored some of its biggest-ever ​wins in eastern Germany last month. At the same time, the…

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