The Digital News Affairs Conference in Brussels featured more than 50 speakers from the media world's leading editorial, marketing and business teams. The subject of this year's event was 'How to survive the digital news…

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Issue 14

Is it time to pull down the shutters on the UN? In a highly personal commentary on the strife at the United Nations, a former special assistant to Kofi Annan says the 60-year-old institution is no longer fit to solve the…

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Issue 35

Geneva: a world-shaper, a knowledge economy, a cultural hub and a city on the rise in our Quality of Life index. But how long can it hold on to its unique role? Property is hard to find, living costs are high and there are…

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Issue 41

Hungary’s foreign affairs minister discusses the challenges facing his country’s EU presidency, the importance of an increased role for central Europe and his government’s reputation for media bashing.

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Wednesday 8 February

We’re in a media age where politicians’ sporting prowess or domestic pet ownership can be as meticulously chewed over by the media as actual policy. Yet, in this quagmire of information, the reconnaissance that can be…

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Tuesday 7 June

More than 50 international galleries have landed in London this week unfurling a vast collection of Latin American art for the opening of “Pinta”, a four-day exhibition showcasing the best of the region’s modern and cont…

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Issue 14

Its role in Darfur is seen as a failure. It has almost no role in the Middle East. The UN has a colourful history of international diplomacy, but now, as its officials turn on the secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, the confl…

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Issue 74

The films, books and bands keeping us entertained this month — and an introduction to a football pundit.

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Issue 74

The EU's man in Sarajevo, a summit that wasn't planned and a plea for India to take a bigger global role on the world stage.

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Wednesday 6 January

The US is having a love affair with street food. There has been an explosion of ever more enterprising mobile food carts from LA to Portland and New Orleans to NY and it’s starting to take off in the UK.

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Issue 10

US voters are perceived as being oblivious to the world outside their country. But war, immigration and an increasingly globalised economy mean that foreign affairs will play a bigger part in the 2008 election than they…

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Tuesday 22 September

Last night, Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen’s arrival in Washington was celebrated at his country’s embassy with a party in his honour. Like many national leaders, Vanhanen is spending the week shuttling between…

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Issue 50

Norway’s minister of foreign affairs is a firm believer in dialogue, which includes analysing the painful massacre last July. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t prepared to send in the troops overseas if deemed necessary.

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Wednesday 24 July

“And in news just in, I will grudgingly pass on that it is, apparently, a boy. You’re listening to the Globalist Asia, on Monocle 24…”

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