If Australia and New Zealand agreed on a Common Travel Area, it would cut travel times significantly: Later check-ins, no more transfers between international and domestic terminals for connections, less hassle.
It is high time we brought policy-making closer to local communities.
As if Europe did not have enough problems to deal with before the refugee crisis, it is now faced with an even greater challenge: To deal with millions of underqualified migrants.
The challenge for Europe’s societies is to ensure that those migrants coming in will not remain welfare-dependent forever but find a way into productive society quickly.
What would have been unthinkable even a few months ago now looks like a plausible scenario: Merkel’s chancellorship may be drawing to a close sooner than anyone imagined.
What if New Zealand’s towns and cities had the freedom to deviate from national legislation?
George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered nothing short of a revolution to the way that Britain is governed.
Good ideas are more powerful than political posturing.
The result of the Portuguese election suggests tough reforms and fiscal austerity can eventually pay off – politically and economically.
Volkswagen’s share price crash shows that markets are working.
© Dr Oliver Hartwich