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(Europe) An early view on euro area risk-sharing during the COVID-19 crisis (Alberto Giovannini, Carl-Wolfram Horn, Francesco Paolo Mongelli, VOXEU)

The COVID-19 crisis represents a unique litmus test for the European Monetary Union’s (EMU) risk-sharing capacities in allowing us to assess whether the institutional...

(Mediterranean) The economic impact of ancient colonisation (Dimitris K. Chronopoulos, Sotiris Kampanelis, Daniel Oto-Peralías, John O.S. Wilson, VOXEU)

Large Mediterranean cities – including Bologna, Istanbul, Malaga, Marseille, Nice, and Varna – were founded by Phoenicians, Greeks, and Etruscans in an early example...

(Europe/Poland) Why Poland threatened to veto the EU recovery fund (Andrzej Mendel-Nykorowycz, ECFR)

As if the past year hadn’t already been difficult enough, Poland and Hungary recently threatened to derail negotiations over the Multiannual Financial Framework and...

(Southeastern Europe/China) Beijing’s megaphone: The return of party propaganda in south-eastern Europe (Vladimir Shopov, ECFR)

There was a time when citizens of what were then communist countries had to endure an endless deluge of ideological rhetoric and imagery. Stale,...

(Data Breach) Dassault Falcon Jet hit by Ragnar Locker ransomware gang (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113216/data-breach/dassault-falcon-data-breach.html

(Cyber Warfare/Hacking/Security) SolarWinds hackers also used common hacker techniques, CISA revealed (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113210/cyber-warfare-2/solarwinds-hacker-techniques-cisa.html

(Islamic State/Indonesia) IS replication in Indonesia and counterterrorism after the Sigi attack (Any Rufaedah and Idhamsyah Eka Putra, East Asia Forum)

After losing 95 per cent of its territories in Iraq and Syria, the so-called Islamic State (IS) movement is widely considered to have fallen. Yet despite...

(India) Avoid privileging public sector over private sector in space (Kartik Bommakanti, ORF)

The Modi government made a significant decision in May 2020 to permit private sector participation in the space industry. The key to realising the...

(India) What India should know about non-state actors, counterterrorism and asymmetric warfare (Kabir Taneja, ORF)

The Chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhaduria, while recently addressing a webinar on India’s national security challenges and the role...

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