Helene Zuber, Der Spiegel
After the end of the Franco era, King Juan Carlos I helped his country become wealthy and democratic. Today he is exiled, with his legacy clouded by possible connections to tax fraud. What happened?
Jim O'Neill, Project Syndicate
Despite all of the doom and gloom of the past six months, much of the global economy continues to show signs of a sharp recovery from the pandemic-induced collapse this spring. And while nothing is guaranteed, a number of favorable structural factors make a further acceleration highly likely.
Mitsuo Inada & Naoto Jinji, VoxEU
James Forsyth, Spectator
Boris Johnson will address his MPs tonight – and they are in need of some soothing. This week has strained relations between him and the parliamentary party. As I say in the
Ayah Aman, Al Monitor
The floods in Sudan have destroyed thousands of homes and killed hundreds amid stalled negotiations between Cairo, Addis Ababa and Khartoum over the Nile dam dispute.
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/09/sudan-nile-floods-egypt-ethiopia-dam-talks.html#ixzz6XnL07leg
Timothy Garton Ash, FT
Economist
