All posts tagged "governance"

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  May’s hard Brexit: starting position or ultimate goal?

  The British PM has set out her stall for EU exit talks, and she’s offering few goods for Continental customers. Matt Ross unpicks the domestic political calculations that have shaped

  • Posted January 20, 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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  Ripples around the world: Brexit’s implications for Europe and beyond

  The UK referendum vote to leave the EU will have consequences far beyond the Continent. Six months after the historic poll, Matt Ross considers its implications for governments both in

  • Posted January 4, 2017
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  Responding to the Brexit challenge: a round table debate

  The UK’s civil servants are working hard to understand the likely impacts of Brexit, and to help forge a UK government position. But at a round table debate bringing together

  • Posted December 8, 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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  Trump’s Cabinet unfolds amid rumour and turmoil

  Donald Trump’s Cabinet-appointment dramas have continued over Thanksgiving weekend, with the president-elect’s top advisor, Kellyanne Conway, acknowledging a grassroots outcry against the possible appointment of Mitt Romney as secretary of

  • Posted November 28, 2016
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  Helping governments bridge the gap between intentions and performance

  The ideal of good government is one shared by billions of people around the world but more needs to be done for it to become a reality, says Adrian Brown

  • Posted November 21, 2016
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  India moves to protect retired officials from corruption probes

  The Indian government is introducing amendments to an anti-corruption bill, in order to give retired civil servants the same protections from prosecution as serving officials. The move follows the suicides

  • Posted November 8, 2016
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  Australia publishes first government transparency action plan

  Better protection for tax fraud whistleblowers and new measures to tackle corruption in the public sector are among the commitments made in a national ‘open government’ plan published today by

  • Posted November 1, 2016
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  Interim Brexit deal with EU ‘inevitable’ for UK, says former Foreign Office chief

  The UK will need an interim deal with the European Union before it fully leaves the bloc, the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s former civil service chief has said. Sir Simon

  • Posted October 26, 2016
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