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Montenegro may fail to form a stable government

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MONTENEGRO

PES faces the challenge of forming a stable majority government to end prolonged political instability and restart EU-oriented reforms. Its main rival, long-time former President…

Taiwan’s president-elect faces a divided parliament

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TAIWAN

Voters elect representatives from their geographic constituencies (73 seats) and vote separately for a political party, which then fields 34 legislators-at-large not tied to a…

US partnership will strengthen Vietnam’s balancing act

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VIETNAM

The United States thereby joined the small list of countries -- which includes China -- to have this level of diplomatic relations with Vietnam. Hanoi and Washington announced…

Social media fragmentation raises disinformation risks

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INT

One driving factor of this risk is that in 2024 over 4 billion people -- around half the world's population -- will be able to vote in elections. These polls will take place at a…

US state-level privacy regimes will expand

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UNITED STATES

These take to 15 the number of US states with consumer privacy laws in effect or pending. Five new state privacy regimes will come into force this year, four more…

Concerns about harmful content on Twitter/X will rise

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While other social media platforms are witnessing a similar increase in harmful content, that at Twitter/X has been the most dramatic, making it a particularly problematic but…

Kenya’s Hustler Fund may survive early challenges

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KENYA

The fund is an ambitious, complex and unorthodox approach to boosting financial inclusion and providing credit to citizens and small businesses, but it is not uncontroversial.

Digital election technology faces obstacles in Africa

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AFRICA

In Nigeria’s 2023 elections, a new system making polling station-level results available online largely failed, fuelling distrust in the political and electoral system. An app…

China's global initiatives will evolve

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CHINA

The summit marked the tenth anniversary of the government’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing revised the BRI’s emphasis from large-scale infrastructure projects to…

UK parties have little room for migrant policy change

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UK

Although most of this reflects refugee flows and rising student numbers, migration for work has also been high. This has increased the size of the labour force, boosting GDP and…