The Globalist

With the G20 summit now finished, we explore the complexities of multilateral negotiation. Plus: Paris cleans up after another weekend of violent protest, what’s on the agenda at Nato’s meeting and we ask if French cuisine has lost its élan.

What should we expect from Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin? We also discuss peace talks intended to end the war in Yemen, the logistics of a second Brexit referendum and the business headlines.

The world’s leaders are arriving in Buenos Aires ahead of the G20 summit which kicks off tomorrow; we ask who’ll be avoiding who – and if anyone will take a picture with Mohammed Bin Salman. Plus: the latest from the escalating situation in Ukraine, a billionaire philanthropist hoping to reinvigorate Australian journalism and a look inside the first edition of this year’s ‘Monocle Winter Weekly’.

With Ukrainian sailors sentenced to 60 days in prison by Russian authorities, we ask how this increasingly tense situation is going to play out. Plus: Japan slides away from its pacifist constitution, Theresa May tries to sell Brexit in Belfast and we hear about a new translation of ‘Aladdin’.

Increasing tensions between Ukraine and Russia, French plans to upgrade its public-transport system and a question: what would it take to have a second referendum on the UK’s EU membership?

The UK has been a member of the EU for 45 years but in the end it took the EU27 just 40 minutes to agree to a withdrawal deal. Plus: more domestic woes for Emmanuel Macron as a second week of protests blockade roads and China’s Belt and Road project heads in the direction of scandal.

What should we expect from this weekend’s crunch Brexit summit in Brussels? We also discuss Taiwan’s referendum on whether to legalise same-sex marriage and examine protests in Berlin over rising rents at Karl Marx Allee. Plus: we tell you about Ljubljana Airport’s much-needed extension.

We diagnose British PM Theresa May's latest Brexit headache as a number of EU countries push for more from the UK. Plus: why Australia refuses to sign up to a UN migration agreement and why Vienna’s government owns more houses than any other landlord in Europe.

Spain considers voting against the Brexit deal over Gibraltar, the White House issues a code of conduct for journalists and London’s historic club Annabel’s auctions most of its interior. Plus: newspapers, business headlines and a sneak peek at our guide to Athens.

As the UK’s foreign secretary becomes the first foreign minister to visit Iran since the US reimposed sanctions, we ask what he hopes to accomplish in Tehran. Plus: the complicated tangle of accusations behind the Magnitsky Act, Kenya’s new coastguard and the ISS turns 20.

We ask whether politicians in the UK and the Europe can halt the Brexit process, find out why Cuba is pulling doctors out of Brazil and look at the power of the Japanese passport. Plus: would cities benefit from tearing down their carparks?

We ask whether further resignations from Theresa May’s cabinet will force her from her job. Plus: the latest on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, why Japan’s new cyber-security minister has never used a computer and plans to pedestrianise the centre of Paris.

As UK prime minister Theresa May’s cabinet endorses a draft Brexit agreement, we ask how the news has been received in Europe. We learn what Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe and US vice president Mike Pence hope to achieve on a trip to Australia. And if you’re stuck with what to give a Trump supporter for Christmas, we might just have the answer.

Following a violent start to the week, a ceasefire has been declared in Gaza once more. We ask what provoked this latest eruption and how long peace can be expected to hold. Plus, ask if sanctions are having an effect on Russia, what happens once Italy’s budget deadline with the EU elapses, and is some literature too saucy for students?

As Southeast Asian leaders are joined by Vladimir Putin at the Asean Summit in Singapore, we ask where Donald Trump is. Plus: the brutality that underpins political oppression in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the company that plans to start microchipping workers.