Diplomacy & Crisis News

Marcus Tantau from Templeton Research offers fresh insights into the region's economies as they reel from the impacts of the Hormuz oil crisis.

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It clubbed an already passed amendment on women’s reservation with the controversial amendment to delimit electoral boundaries. The ploy flopped.

The region offers a market with untapped potential for streaming entertainment, and one where disposable income is likely to rise in the years to come.

DRAFT RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and Canada laying down the conditions for the participation of Canadian legal entities and products originating in Canada to procurement under the SAFE Instrument
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Security and Defence
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Borys Budka

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