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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at yesterday’s European Council meeting.
In July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, approved a €750 billion recovery plan, labeled Next Generation EU, and the Commission’s proposed €...
(Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein)
Yale University has launched a campus-wide initiative that will unite institutional leadership and academic experts across the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, professional schools,...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has named Sophie White as the 2020 winner of its 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for “Voices of the Enslaved:...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaking by phone Saturday.
On November 19, the EU-UK negotiation of an agreement on their relationship after the UK leaves the EU’s internal market and customs union at midnight on December 31 was interrupted when Michel...
On November 20, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University and Universidad Nacional...
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the EU.
In July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, approved a €750 billion recovery plan, labeled Next Generation EU, and the Commission’s proposed €...
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Professor of Anthropology and the School of the Environment
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Professor of Anthropology, has received the John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences, which is given by the American Association for the Advancement of...
Yale University holds a wide array of images from the Middle East across its encyclopedic collections. The Visual Resources of the Middle East (VRME) project was created with the assistance of the...
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, arriving this morning at the EU-UK talks in London.
In March, the EU and the UK began negotiating an agreement on their future relationship that would take effect at midnight on December 31 when the UK would, with the conclusion of the transition...
As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Author Manuel Barcia and David Blight, Director of The Gilder Lehrman Center...
Nibera for Noema Magazine
Repairing the damage to international cooperation will be a work of patience, diplomatic craftsmanship and the slow recovery of mutual trust. And it cannot be done by America alone. The following...
An 1842 daguerréotype of Honoré de Balzac by the photographer Louis-Auguste Bisson (via Wikimedia Commons)
Fueled by endless cups of coffee, French author Honoré de Balzac produced more than 90 novels and short stories peopled by 2,400-plus characters during his lifetime (1799-1850). “Balzac’s Lives...