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.@J_Bardella's crude antisemitism undermines @MLP_officiel's effort to distance the far-right National Rally from her father's overt antisemitism, points out @ZakiLaidi. https://t.co/lrSKkGmwl3

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Richard K. Sherwin describes the role moral imagination must play to keep the technology’s greatest potential harms in check. https://t.co/Z2xDDY38FR

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Carl Bildt observes that developments during the past few years have rendered the term obsolete. https://t.co/qV8UbcijAH

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What is the most important or overlooked issue to watch at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31)? @GhoshArunabha @LopesInsights @jrockstrom @anaatonii and Mary Robinson share their views. https://t.co/qJwb2cYts8

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As long as Europeans remain burdened by our own history, we will struggle to become leading innovators, argued @F__Timmermans (@Rijksoverheid) at our latest event, “Reinventing Europe.” #PSEvents

Watch the full session at the link: https://t.co/8SNAugAOdA

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Yemi Kale promotes an agenda focused on regional integration, industrialization, and access to trade finance. https://t.co/SZBwMU75MU

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Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan argues that concerns over the AI buildout, bond yields, and public debt cannot be divorced from supply shocks. https://t.co/BUoAnatD6C

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The student protests against France’s university-admissions platform, Parcoursup, have important implications for growing debates about the use of AI for decision-making, @gabramosp argues. https://t.co/hHU91pXO5d

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Brazil's next president will inherit an economy with falling poverty and unemployment rates. @FlavioBolsonaro’s austerity plans threaten to reverse those gains, warn @usponline’s @lauraabcarvalho and Columbia’s @JosephEStiglitz. https://t.co/t8wHeHfvA6

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.@cipesaug’s Wairagala Wakabi documents how African governments, with the support of Chinese tech firms, are monitoring people in public spaces through cameras, facial recognition, and vehicle tracking. https://t.co/mkOg6vKXum

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State-provided services should use the enormous amounts of evidence that they collect to revise institutional beliefs, so that lessons generated over time can alter current and future decisions, Christopher A. Pissarides and Fadi Farra explain. https://t.co/MmH4nt9JzJ

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.@yanisvaroufakis explains how @JLMelenchon’s proposal to convert €600 billion in French government bonds held by France’s central bank into perpetual bonds could ease pressure on the country’s public finances. Read his full commentary here: https://t.co/kQIErVpCfU

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.@GroupofThirty's Guillermo Ortiz considers how Mexico can strengthen its position in a region dominated by @realDonaldTrump-aligned leaders. https://t.co/gxO0EWczBP

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The relationship between firm and worker, and the corresponding obligations, were intentionally severed through vertical disintegration across global supply chains, subcontracting, and labor intermediation, Jeffrey Vogt and Monika Mehta write. https://t.co/ZounDzc740

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At our “Reinventing Europe” event in Paris, @Ph_Aghion (@INSEAD, @cdf1530) argued that, if Europe is to build its own AI, it needs industrial policy focused on increasing computing power. #PSEvents

Watch the full session at the link: https://t.co/n1WNXxnWqs

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.@SecRubio highlighted thumos, an ancient Greek word he translated as “the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride,” in his Athens speech. @eliamepgr’s Loukas Tsoukalis thinks he should have focused on another Greek word: hubris. https://t.co/8saHyaKgEE

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A defender of the “wretched of the Earth,” Navi Pillay has long been on the side of those countries experiencing a grossly unjust “global apartheid,” @UPTuks’s Adekeye Adebajo writes. https://t.co/X3gPiXbdE1

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The French welfare state was built to protect people in old age, one of democracy's great achievements. But no country can have a future if its young people see none for themselves, writes @sciencespo’s @_jonlevy. https://t.co/FAD1DuKcLX

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Emerging economies without abundant energy or mineral deposits should double down on other real resources that may be scarce in the future, V. Anantha Nageswaran writes. https://t.co/SqZlHgNvgj

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In his speech in Athens, @SecRubio made no mention of cooperation, solidarity, or the common good. He seems to view human interaction as a constant fight in which the best man wins—and the rest are forgotten, @eliamepgr’s Loukas Tsoukalis writes. https://t.co/8saHyaKgEE