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Many things divide the 27 member states of the European Union these days, but one controversy in particular sums up the bloc’s fundamental dilemma. It is over “enlargement”, and specifically whether to formally start accession talks with North Macedo...

When the history of our time is written, the year 2019 may stand as the turning point in the battle for liberal democracy — a year when millions of people rose to fight against the forces that for more than a decade have been bulldozing it, trampling...

The Minister of National Security urged a British politician to help bring back the BMU code to Bermudian passports during talks in London, he said yesterday. Wayne Caines attended a series of meetings in the UK capital last week. He met Seema Kenned...

Much of the world is witnessing struggles in which powerful leaders are more concerned about absolute control than permitting true democracy to prevail. This really gives power to the people on crucial decisions that affect their daily lives. When d...

In Zimbabwe, former president Robert Mugabe has died, but the institutional legacies that helped to shape his long and repressive regime live on. In 2019, the economic crisis under President Emmerson Mnangagwa — created by a mix of drought and bad mo...

Now that Donald Trump has pillaged $3.6 billion in congressionally approved military construction funds to pay for part of his border wall, the collateral damage is becoming clear. That big update scheduled for the US Military Academy’s engineering ...

Bermuda and its people punch well above their weight, a top American diplomat said yesterday. Robert Wood Johnson, the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, added: “One of the things that I think really surprises an outsider coming into B...

This crisis along the United States southern border with Mexico is in reality a humanitarian crisis and a reflection of a failed regional policy. Hundreds of thousands of persons, many of whom are women and children, are fleeing from impoverishment a...

Impeachment has jumped the shark. The episode that proves it is the one in which serious, informed politicians are wondering if Donald Trump actually wants to be impeached for political advantage and is trying to goad Democrats into obliging him. It ...

The following is an open letter of congratulations to the newly elected President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. Dear Mr President, I am writing to offer you and your team best wishes after your recent mandate for a new term as a result of the jus...

The British Government has rejected a parliamentary committee proposal to come up with a timetable for talks that would give British residents in Bermuda the right to vote. It said the Foreign Office did not plan to publish any such schedule but reco...

A legal battle over Britain’s demand that Bermuda establishes a public beneficial ownership register will most likely be avoided. That is the view of Lord Tariq Ahmad, Britain’s Foreign Office Minister for the Overseas Territories, who said the UK wa...