Foreign & Defence Policy Program of US presidential candidates
Donald Trump Trump used a major speech on Thursday to lay out an “America first” foreign policy that would see Nato allies contribute more to their own defence. Castigating the “reckless and rudderless” policies of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that he said “blazed a path of destruction” in the world, Mr Trump said…
The European Intervention Initiative (EI2)
The European Intervention Initiative (Initiative européenne d’intervention, EI2/IEI) was first proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron in his Sorbonne keynote in September 2017 and nine members signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to begin work on 25 June 2018. France’s motivation to establish this, and other European military projects, is to support its operations in…
2017 : A Continental Free Trade Area in Africa?
Under the aegis of the African Union, the 54 states will set up a “Schengen-like” borderless area in 2017 to boost trade. Negotiations for the establishment of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) in Africa were formally launched in June 2015 at the African Union Summit in Johannesburg. A year later, a boost seems to…