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The Asia Olympics: Past Achievements & Future Goals

On April 19, students and professors from around the world gathered virtually on Zoom for a webinar about “The Asia Olympics: Past Achievements & Future Goals” sponsored by the MacMillan Center’s Hellenic Studies Program at Yale. The event, cohosted by the Center’s Council on East Asian...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi after presenting Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan to the Chamber of Deputies last week.

With the EU again in recession, member states submit their Recovery & Resilience plans

Last July, the heads of state or government of the 27 EU member states, meeting as the European Council, agreed to a plan, developed at their request by the European Commission and labelled Next Generation EU, to borrow up to €750 billion on the capital markets to assist the member states in...

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Steven Wilkinson to serve as acting FAS dean of social science

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Tamar Gendler has announced that Steven Wilkinson will serve as acting FAS dean of social science for a one-year term, through June 2022, pending Yale Corporation approval.

A member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Wilkinson is the Nilekani...

Courtesy of Zoe Hsu and Bayan Galal

Congratulations to Bayan Galal ’23 and Zoe Hsu ’24 on being elected YCC President and Vice President

In an email to the student body on Friday evening, Yale College Council vice president Reilly Johnson ’22 announced the election of Bayan Galal ’23 and Zoe Hsu ’24 as the next YCC president and vice president, respectively.

Galal, who ran on a ticket with Hsu, won 56.4 percent of the vote...

Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, at the European Parliament Tuesday as it voted to approve the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

European Parliament approves Trade and Cooperation Agreement

Almost five years after British voters chose, by a narrow 52-48 margin in the June 23, 2016 referendum, to leave the EU, Brexit finally is a done deal. On Tuesday evening, the European Parliament approved by an overwhelming margin—660 in favor vs. 5 against and 32 abstentions—the 1276-page EU-UK...

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