All posts by Tamsin Rutter

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  US foreign service vacuum as Trump purges public servants

  The entire top management team of the US state department left government last week, fueling fears that the foreign service will see a mass exodus of talent under president Donald

  • Posted January 30, 2017
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  Populism enables ‘endemic corruption’, report warns

  Transparency International has warned of “endemic corruption” in public sectors all over the world, after its analysis revealed that two-thirds of the 176 countries examined score less than half marks

  • Posted January 26, 2017
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  New European Parliament president sets conciliatory tone on Brexit

  The new centre-right president of the European Parliament has told the UK prime minister that Britain will remain a key partner for the EU, whilst promising to protect the interests

  • Posted January 24, 2017
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  Incoming European Commission budget chief faces opposition from MEPs and NGOs

  After three committee hearings held in the European Parliament this week, the European Commission president’s choice of commissioner for budget and human resources faces opposition from MEPs and NGOs –

  • Posted January 10, 2017
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  Republican legislators take new powers over public spending

  American Republicans have reinstated an obscure rule from 1876 that allows them to target specific government programmes and individual federal workers for cuts. The Holman Rule, which was scrapped by

  • Posted January 10, 2017
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  China’s presence on international stage grows as EU’s declines, new index finds

  China is seeing enormous growth in its international profile and influence whilst Europe stagnates, according to a global ranking system that measures countries’ visibility and activity on the international stage.

  • Posted December 19, 2016
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  New research boosts crusade to embed happiness in public policy

  New research suggests that governments could have more success in improving people’s lives if they prioritised improving mental health over traditional top goals such as boosting economic growth. The research,

  • Posted December 15, 2016
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  António Guterres: what do we know about the new UN chief?

  António Guterres, sworn in as the ninth United Nations secretary general on 12 December, has said that ending the war in Syria is his first priority. The former Portuguese prime

  • Posted December 14, 2016
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  Who is François Fillon? We profile the French presidential candidate of the centre-right

  François Fillon, who appears likely to face the hard-right Front National’s Marine le Pen in the French presidential election run-off, won the centre-right Republicain party’s primary on a promise to

  • Posted December 6, 2016
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  UK cabinet secretaries defend pre-vote Brexit planning

  Serving and former UK cabinet secretaries have defended the civil service against accusations that it did too little to plan for a Leave vote in the Brexit referendum, explaining that

  • Posted December 1, 2016
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