Dominic Dudley, Forbes
The prospect of a British exit from the EU makes Middle East onlookers nervous, with potential problems for the region's aviation, real estate, banking and trade sectors.
Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail
Donald Trump has attacked Mexicans, Muslims, NATO allies and China, among others. Canadians may be taking false solace that he hasn't singled out this country for scorn.
Kevin Williamson, National Review
Free trade is, in 2016, a cause without a champion. The two great populist currents of the moment â really a single current with two faces, Donald Trump's and Bernie Sanders's â are resolutely opposed to free trade. Mrs. Clinton, a sometime supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated by the Obama administration during her service as secretary of state, is walking sideways away from it.
Shikha Dalmia, The Week
Trump's foreign policy isolationism won't lead to peace because his trade policy isolationism will create the pre-conditions for war.
Ahmed Hidji, Al-Monitor
Egyptian lawyers and activists voice concerns over President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's decision broadening the rights of Saudi nationals to own real estate in Egypt.
Mohamed El-Erian, Project Syndicate
From changes in government in Argentina and Brazil to mid-course policy corrections in Chile, Latin American politics appears to be undergoing a rightward shift. But unless today's political winners deliver notably higher and significantly more inclusive growth, their electorates are likely to move on.
Andrew Scott Cooper, FP
The heir to the Saudi throne just pushed through a bold package of reforms designed to free the kingdom from oil addiction by 2030. Here's why it could backfire, badly.
Sylvain Cypel, New York Times
In France these days, not only is it getting harder and harder to find a job, but even those people who have one are unlikely to be able to afford a nice suit. Work pays less and less, except for the elites represented by Mr. Macron. As in the United States, income inequality in France is growing.
Constanze Stelzenmuller, Washington Post
A lot rides on Berlin getting its integration project right.
Robert Tracinski, The Federalist
Switzerland's referendum for a 'basic income' reveals the endgame of the welfare state: the neo-aristocratic privilege of living without working.
Andrei Lankov & Chung-in Moon & Shen Dingli, Bulletin
The international standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons program has now dragged on for decades, and six-party talks among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States have been suspended since 2009.
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
While it would be misleading to assume that Netanyahu's fourth meeting with Vladimir Putin in less than year makes Russia an Israel ally, it is nonetheless clear that Moscow is more interested in its increased security cooperation with the Jewish state than in helping the French or President Obama. The Israelis must be wary of Putin, who is playing a dangerous game with military intervention in Syria. But the visit, along with growing Israeli ties to moderate Arab countries... Читать дальше...
Lee Smith, Weekly Standard
Last week pictures of Qassem Suleimani started to circulate on social media, which is always a pretty sure sign that an Iranian military campaign is about to kick off somewhere in the Middle East.Ã
Elisabeth Braw, Foreign Affairs
The process of getting permission to move NATO troops across borders is too arduous.
Nico Hines & Pierre Vaux, Daily Beast
The Kremlin claims it's neutral as Britain prepares to vote on whether to leave the European Union, but Russia's own propaganda says otherwise.
Christian Oliver, Financial Times
While the UK's possible exit from the EU has been the centre of attention, the popularity of the European project has suffered an even steeper decline in France, according to a survey.Ã
Philip Johnston, Telegraph
Here is a confident prediction about the outcome of the EU referendum on June 23. The first result, to be declared at around 1am, will be overwhelmingly in favour of staying in. There will be an 85 per cent turnout âÂÂà and 88 per cent of voters, or thereabouts, will be for Remain.But since we are talking about Gibraltar, where the polls will close an hour earlier than here and just 22,000-odd votes need to be counted, it will tell us nothing about what is to come next.
Polly Toynbee, Guardian
Leavers' cynical exploitation of the left-behind has shocked the remain camp. But Labour canvassers talking to their own side can prevail.
Judith Miller, City Journal
Read together, Bergen and Hayden's books suggest that neither panic nor complacency serves the nation well, and that the search for effective ways of defeating terror groups abroad and limiting their appeal at home must continue.
Rafael Osio Cabrices, Huffington Post
Last year, 8-year-old Oliver Sanchez became the poster child of the nightmare that is now Venezuela.Ã
Andrew Foxall, The American Interest
Putin is re-writing the past to justify authoritarianism in the present.
