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The View from EuropeThe real challenge of citizenship programmes
David JessopJan. 16, 2017A few days into the New Year, St Lucia's Prime Minister, Allen Chastanet, suggested that all five of the Eastern Caribbean nations that sell Citizenship by Investment (CBI) should develop ...
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The View from EuropeAction needed to guide US regional priorities
David JessopDec. 18, 2016On December 13, the US Congress sent to President Obama The United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016 for signature into law.
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The View from EuropeChina: a tourism opportunity for the Caribbean?
David JessopDec. 9, 2016At the end of last month, China published a detailed 16-page document, 'China's Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean', which sets out a new approach to relations between ...
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The View from EuropeNew uncertainties ahead for Cuba
David JessopDec. 4, 2016On November 28, the US President-elect, Donald Trump said that 'if Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the US as ...
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The View from EuropeThe trajectory of history is changing
David JessopNov. 26, 2016Being able to identify the policy changes that will transform the future is normally far from easy. Arguably, however, in the week past, the remarks of two world leaders make ...
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The View from EuropeThe region is ill-prepared for President Trump
David JessopNov. 11, 2016Dispossessed by economic globalisation, faced with growing economic inequality, and wanting change, the people of the United States have elected Donald Trump to be their President. In doing so, they ...
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The View from EuropeTime to reshape and clarify ACP solidarity
David JessopOct. 24, 2016What does solidarity between nations mean in the early twenty first century? Are the values inferred practical or advisable, in a multipolar world in which self-interest, overlapping relationships and multiple ...
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The View from EuropeClimate change: a test of the region's staying power
David JessopOct. 7, 2016After a period of uncertainty, it has been confirmed that the Paris Agreement on Climate Change will enter into force on November 4. This is good news for the Caribbean, ...
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The View from EuropeThe EPA, Brexit and defending the status quo
David JessopOct. 1, 2016How should the Anglophone Caribbean respond to Brexit? Should it, based on the expert advice it has received from the CARICOM Secretariat and its own trade negotiators, now be actively ...
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The View from EuropeForward thinking required on foreign policy
David JessopSept. 23, 2016A few days ago the US President, Barack Obama, gave what in effect was a farewell address to the United Nations General Assembly. It was personal, heartfelt, and frank. It ...
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The View from EuropeThe Changing face of the Caribbean – part 2
David JessopSept. 20, 2016How should we regard the Caribbean's future? Should it be with pessimism as some commentators suggest, or with optimism? The answer seems to lie in how one measures the likely ...
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The View from Europe
A new regional context for tourism
David JessopAug. 27, 2016A few days ago, Karolin Troubetzkoy, the President of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), spoke to the media about some of the challenges that she believes now face ...
