Affairs / Diplomacy
Diplomacy Briefing
We meet Georgia’s ambassador to Germany and take a dip at the UN swimming club in Geneva.
We meet Georgia’s ambassador to Germany and take a dip at the UN swimming club in Geneva.
An interview with the Geneva-based, football-playing Brazilian permanent representative to the WTO.
Why vineyards could be a wise investment, the pioneering Japanese store Lawson, and a Q&A with the president of the Geneva Motor Show.
Wednesday 18 August
The Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (LABACE) in São Paulo is the second largest corporate jet fair in the world (after Geneva’s EBACE) and, like everything in Brazil, it’s growing.
Tram and urban light-rail projects are booming as cities turn their backs on car culture. Bombardier is the global leader in the field and provides stock to such places as Stockholm, Geneva and Brussels. We met its pres…
Saturday 30 October
The Japanese sure don’t shy away from a shandy – yet when the Japanese Foreign Ministry recently conducted an audit of its embassies, consulates and government offices abroad, even they found the stocks sobering.
Tuesday 21 May
A visit to the Arctic Council meeting in Kiruna during last week showed that international diplomacy can be cool, sort of.
Thursday 8 April
There are many things that have helped provoke the violent revolution in Kyrgyzstan this week: extreme poverty, financial crisis and possibly a nudge from Moscow, to name just a few.
Saturday 10 October
You don’t need to spend too much time outdoors to realise that plucky little Switzerland is currently gearing up for one of its more controversial referendums.
Sunday 27 September
Have the latest revelations about a secret uranium-enrichment plant made an Israeli attack in Iran more probable, imminent even?
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