US raises walls, EU to follow After the US turned away from free trade and imposed tariffs on most of the world - and in particular China, the EU got really scared that China now will flood Europe with cheap products it can no longer sell in the US. So the EU - founded as a champion of free trade - now looks poised to ‘going Trumpian’ and erect trade barriers against the Chinese inflow....
Planetary Politics More than Green Transition is needed Norway and most other countries are struggling with the green shift. It is politically self-inflicted trouble. The industrial nations believe that the climate and nature crises can be solved through a large-scale focus on new economic growth in the ’new green industries'. But these are not investments to save the climate and nature - they are investments to save the industrial society created by capital and technology....