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The future of Europe runs on rails. Or at least it seems so these days. The EU Green Deal and the ambition of a zero-emissions economy echo ideas of efficient night train services and high-speed rails being upgraded, partly as a result of…

To really understand the fundamental dynamics of today's labor market and the serious challenges that lie ahead, one must step back from the current debate as the greater part of the public discussion on work and income is still stuck in…

A few days after Mary Barra had been appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors, she said that she expected to see more change in the auto industry in the next five years than in the last fifty. That was in 2014.…

Despite relative well-being and increasing wealth, today South Africa faces the most uncertain time since the end of the Apartheid regime 25 years ago. The political elections in May saw vast disaffection towards politics, uncovered social…

The past few months have seen a dramatic surge of unrest across the Middle East and Africa, from Sudan to Algeria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. In some of these countries the uprising, with the help of the army, dislodged long-time dictators, as…