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Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

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Uffe Ellemann-Jensen is a former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark.

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  1. Give Britain Time
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    Give Britain Time

    Jul 7, 2016 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen recalls Danes' calm and careful deliberation in 1992, after voters rejected the Maastricht Treaty.

  2. Europe’s Myopic Defense Cuts
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    Europe’s Myopic Defense Cuts

    Nov 26, 2010 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

  3. Defusing Russia’s Energy Weapon

    Defusing Russia’s Energy Weapon

    Dec 7, 2009 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

  4. The EU’s Hour, or Europe’s Darkest Hour?
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    The EU’s Hour, or Europe’s Darkest Hour?

    Mar 25, 2009 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

  5. Ireland Must Go

    Ireland Must Go

    Jun 14, 2008 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

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    Democracies Are Not “Backsliding”

    Jan-Werner Mueller thinks the language commonly used to describe the shift toward authoritarianism is hampering solutions.
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    Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists

    Yanis Varoufakis worries that the European Central Bank's blunders have revived the far right's political fortunes.
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    Bridging the Climate-Development Gap

    Dani Rodrik & Ishac Diwan explain how to free up fiscal space for sustainable development in many low- and middle-income countries.
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    Lower Transaction Costs for Greater Innovation

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng highlight the link between access to global markets and investment in research and development.
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    Ashoka Mody on Indian corruption, growth, jobs, and more

    Ashoka Mody explains the roots of the lack of accountability in India, highlights shortcomings in human capital and gender equality, casts doubt on the country’s ability to assume a Chinese-style role in manufacturing, and more.
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    Why India’s Women Are More Vulnerable to Disasters

    Joyita Roy Chowdhury & Prarthna Agarwal Goel call attention to gender inequalities that exacerbate the effects of floods and other natural catastrophes.
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    Europe in the Age of Industrial Policy

    Michael Spence

    While China and the US take advantage of scale to pursue large-scale investment in critical sectors, the EU struggles to follow suit, owing to its decentralized fiscal structures and rules limiting government subsidies to industry. A new EU-level investment program is urgently needed.

     advocates a federal investment program, funded by EU sovereign-debt issuance and administered centrally.
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    Fixing Global Governance

    Gordon Brown explains how to make the G20 and the Bretton Woods institutions fit for purpose once again.
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    The EU Needs Fiscal Union

    Lucrezia Reichlin laments the pro-cyclical bent of the European Commission’s proposed reforms to fiscal rules.

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