Rational means exercising reason and sound judgment. In international relations theory the rational actor model is that when making a decision the rational decision maker takes into account the foreign policy goals of the nation and determines which one takes priority over others. Then the decision maker weighs up the [...]

Italian center-left coalition led by Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani won control of the lower house with 29.54%, narrowly beating the center-right bloc led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, which was supported by 29.18% of voters. However, no party has a majority in the Italian Senate and this, [...]

More than 2,500 business leaders and politicians discussed the current economic situation and took part in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), which ended in the Swiss ski resort of Davos on Saturday, January 26. The theme of the meetings was Resilient Dynamism, with the largest number of discussion sessions [...]

November the 22nd saw a major victory for shark conservation as the EU strengthened their ban on shark finning. Shark finning is the act of slicing off the fins of captured sharks, whilst the bodies, often still alive, are usually thrown back into the ocean. The live sharks, unable to [...]

Are our politicans just headline grabbers, do they ever mean big business to abide by the “rules” like everyone else, and are we ,the people, going to stand by and let capitalist culture defraud us? Will they ever support transparency in tax legislation (ie laws) and pay as they sell? [...]

Europe needs a reliable friend in the Caucasus, but is Azerbaijan ready to fulfill this position? Few years ago, Russia cut off the gas supplies toward Europe causing severe inconvenience in some Eastern European countries. A few days ago Armenia broke diplomatic ties with Hungary as Budapest sent back an [...]

Leaders of the European Union agreed on 29th June to create a single EU Patent System and to establish a European patent court, which will have its headquarters in Paris with two specialised divisions in London and Munich. Most industry experts, however, have expressed their disappointment and concern over the [...]

Search engine Google has offered to settle an ongoing antitrust investigation by the European Commission in an attempt to end possible proceedings against the web giant. Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, has sent a letter to European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, expressing his hope that a deal could prevent a fully-fledged and [...]