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Gillets Jaunes protest in Toulouse in early 2019.

Social protection

No longer convincing trendsetter

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by Praveen Jha
Facebook, Amazon und Google pay attention to Margrethe Vestager, the competition commissioner.

World order

“Teetering continent”

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by Dirk Messner
by Hans Dembowski
Mozambique primarily exports commodities: port of Maputo.

Trade

Moving away from simple commodity exports

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by Friedrich Kaufmann
by Winfried Borowczak
Gerd Müller, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, visiting the Integrated Polytechnic Regional Centre in the Rwandan capital Kigali in 2016.

EU Council presidency

Investing in the future

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by Gerd Müller
Jew’s mallow is unknown in many parts of the world but is very popular in the Middle East, here in the Gaza Strip in Palestine.

Neglected and underutilised species

Important for a sustainable diet

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by Silke Stöber
Disloyal future prime minister Boris Johnson with loyalist DUP leader Arlene Foster in summer 2019. Before rising to power, Johnson insisted there would be no border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but his Brexit agreement with the EU would introduce one.

Regional integration

Irish peace at risk

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by Ciarán Ó Maoláin
Refugees found in distress at sea off the Libyan coast in early 2018.

Mediterranean Sea

Defining relationship

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by Moutaz Ali
by Walid Ali
Market vendors from Myanmar in the Thai border town Mae Sot.

Regional integration

Borderline prosperity

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by Felix Haas
Climate strike in Frankfurt in March 2019.

Global environment

“Swimming against the tide”

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by Saleemul Huq
by Hans Dembowski
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