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Balkan public distrust will endanger vaccine take-up

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BALKANS

Non-EU Balkan countries are lagging behind EU member states in securing access to vaccines. However, survey data show that a clear majority of citizens would refuse to accept a…

Prospects for Turkey to end-2016

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PROSPECTS H2 2016

Prospects for Turkey to end-2016.

Africa will offer major tests for refugee compact

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AFRICA

Global Compact on Refugees.

Governance in Brazil will become more challenging

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BRAZIL

When credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Brazil's foreign currency debt to 'junk' status on September 9, it cited "political challenges" "weighing on the…

Argentina judicial reform points up Fernandez weakness

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ARGENTINA

With an agenda increasingly influenced by Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK), the objectives of judicial reform now appear limited to closing pending…

Local elections will do little for Turkey's Kurds

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TURKEY

The Kurds remain under constant pressure, with controlled parameters for political and social expression, including via a politically dominated judicial system. Kurdish alienation…

Mali election win presents opening for Keita rebound

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MALI

Keita has secured a decisive second-round victory and will embark on his second term from a nominal position of strength. However, the result poses tough questions for his…

South Korean politics will become further destabilised

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SOUTH KOREA

This prompted President Yoon Suk-yeol’s nominee for gender equality minister to withdraw. The same day, prosecutors indicted DPK leader Lee Jae-myung on corruption charges.

US Biden would face COVID-19 and Dem rifts, if elected

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UNITED STATES

Former Vice President Joe Biden will formally become the party’s presidential candidate for the November 3 election, joined by Senator Kamala Harris (California) as running mate…

More environment funds are opportunity for eastern EU

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EASTERN EUROPE

Eastern EU member-states, especially in the south-east, have lagged in both pollution reduction and transition to the carbon-neutral economy, largely thanks to aspects of their…