While the xenophobic right makes inroads across Europe's most liberal and stable democracies and radical islam continues to increase its influence in the Arab world, the experience of some of the Syrian refugees offers a ray of hope for the Middle East and also for Europe itself.

Readers might think I have an issue with the world of finance. Not at all: finance is fundamental in the lives of people, companies and nations. Readers might stop to consider what would happen if there were no banks, money, credit, investments, wealth management... Well, we already knew how that was a few millennia ago,…

Russia's decision to withdraw its troops from Syria and pressure Bashar to make peace may be linked to its agreement with Saudi Arabia to freeze oil production

Although many consider globalization to be the buzzword of the last decades, economic historians would argue that globalization has a history that stretches back thousands of years. As brought up in a relevant Economist article, the trend of trade expansion is linked to specialization and is ‘nearly as old as civilization’. The process seems quite…