Obama’s First Major Win

It was the perfect Christmas gift for President Obama. On Thursday the 24th, the Senate passed the healthcare bill with 60-39 votes and marked the near-materialisation of Obama’s biggest domestic policy-challenge. The only thing that’s left is to merge the two bills of the House of Representatives and the Senate and receive similar approval..

Falling Short in Copenhagen

World leaders failed to meet global expectations for a widely-accepted, legally-binding deal that would set a clear direction about effectively tackling climate change. It seems to me that President Obama pushed for this last minute deal mostly to..

‘Hopenhagen’: The Funding Issue

There is so much fuss going on about the Copenhagen environmental summit these days which has inevitably raised expectations really high. There is a broad public and political consensus that seems to be converging to a climate change deal that would curb CO2 emissions but there are several hurdles..

Copenhagen Summit: What to Expect?

Environment ministers, government officials and other major players from more than 190 countries are gathering on Monday in Copenhagen for two weeks, in the framework of the United Nations Climate Change Conference for the highly-anticipated environmental summit, to address and agree on the measures that..