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The socially-distancing Second Senate of the German Constitutional Court.

German Court allows approval of EU Own Resources Decision for €750 billion recovery fund

Last July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, agreed to an economic recovery plan  prepared at their request by the European Commission. The plan, to be administered by the Commission through the EU’s Multiannual Fiscal Framework, its...

(top right) Peter Salovey, President, Yale University; (left) Elizabeth Bradley, President, Vassar College; and (bottom right) Firoz Rasul, President, Aga Khan University

Higher Education in a Post-COVID World: A Panel Discussion with University Presidents

On April 14, the Yale Institute for Global Health welcomed Peter Salovey, President, Yale University; Elizabeth Bradley, President, Vassar College; and Firoz Rasul, President, Aga Khan University, discuss their responses to COVID-19 and share their views on the impact the pandemic will have on...

Armin Laschet, the CDU-CSU’s chancellor candidate, and Annalena Baerbock, the Greens’ chancellor candidate.

CDU-CSU choose Laschet and Greens choose Baerbock as chancellor candidates for September election

German voters will go to the polls on September 26 to elect the Bundestag. For most parties, the party leader is its presumed chancellor candidate in the election campaign. But in the case of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (...

Rose Gottemoeller, the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation

U.S. nuclear weapons in an age of emerging technologies

On April 15, the MacMillan Center hosted Rose Gottemoeller, the U.S. chief negotiator of the New START treaty—and the first woman to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation—to give the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture Fund at Yale University on the subject of U.S. nuclear weapons in an age of...

Beijing on a day of heavy pollution in December 2015. Photo: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images.

Skilled Workers Flee from Polluted Cities, Hampering Economic Growth

In China, highly educated people are more likely to move away from areas with poor air quality. Reducing pollution could substantially increase GDP there and in other countries, according to a new study co-authored by Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics.

In 2014, China launched a “...

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