Negative views are on the rise because of coronavirus and aggressive diplomacy but cooperation on trade and climate change still desirable. — Read on http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3110516/china-loses-its-lustre-among-europeans-doors-remain-open
Tag: Europe
New survey of European public opinion signals trouble for transatlantic alliance – Responsible Statecraft
Amid the ongoing global crisis caused by COVID-19, a new report from the European Council on Foreign Relations has troubling implications for the much-vaunted transatlantic alliance. The…… Read more “New survey of European public opinion signals trouble for transatlantic alliance – Responsible Statecraft”
Knocking at the gates by Clayton Trutor | The New Criterion
In 410 ad, Alaric I, King of the Visigoths, breached Rome’s walls, likely with the aid of collaborators, and led an army of thousands into the city.…… Read more “Knocking at the gates by Clayton Trutor | The New Criterion”
On the City of Florence’s Struggle to Get Back Dante’s Body | Literary Hub
Giovanni Boccaccio’s call for Florence to retrieve Dante’s corpse appears in retrospect to have been primarily an elaborate literary conceit. The city’s abusive treatment and subsequent unworthiness…… Read more “On the City of Florence’s Struggle to Get Back Dante’s Body | Literary Hub”
Annual Report 2019 – Union for the Mediterranean – UfM
The UfM is an intergovernmental Euro-Mediterranean organisation that brings together the countries of the EU and 15 countries of the South and East Mediterranean. As a direct continuation…… Read more “Annual Report 2019 – Union for the Mediterranean – UfM”
Ukrainian Railroad Ladies – The Washington Post
When asked about his inspiration for “Ukrainian Railroad Ladies,” a series of portraits of women who work as traffic controllers and safety officers, photographer Sasha Maslov said,…… Read more “Ukrainian Railroad Ladies – The Washington Post”
The Perils of Antoinette | by Hilary Mantel | The New York Review of Books
In Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette—as in Stephen Frears’s The Queen, about Elizabeth II—there are repeated scenes in which a rumpled royal person wakes up, dazed, and—yawning…… Read more “The Perils of Antoinette | by Hilary Mantel | The New York Review of Books”
March of the Turanians: how Central Asian horselords shaped the modern world
From the 5th Century AD to the 12th Century AD, wave after wave of nomadic horse lords marched out of their Central Asian homelands, changing, forever, the…… Read more “March of the Turanians: how Central Asian horselords shaped the modern world”
Italy coronavirus lockdown: Poet Franco Arminio publishes phone number – The Washington Post
The poet was stuck in his house like everybody else in Italy, sleeping too little, buzzed with a sense of emergency and listlessness, and wondering how to…… Read more “Italy coronavirus lockdown: Poet Franco Arminio publishes phone number – The Washington Post”
Scottish storms unearth 1,500-year-old Viking-era cemetery | Live Science
The cemetery traces its origins to the middle of the sixth century, when the Orkney Islands were inhabited by native Pictish people, akin to the Picts who…… Read more “Scottish storms unearth 1,500-year-old Viking-era cemetery | Live Science”
