BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 9 (TNSrpt) -- The European Policy Centre issued the following commentary on April 7, 2026, by Chief Executive and Chief Economist Fabian Zuleeg: * * * Europe's place in the global permacrisis The phenomenon of permacrisis is now observable internationally, having been manifest in Europe for almost two decades. Europe's prolonged exposure to it offers a series of warnings and a vantage point for understanding how sustained instability reshapes political and economic sy  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Peterson Institute for International Economics issued the following commentary on April 8, 2026, by Cullen S. Hendrix: * * * The US-Iran ceasefire is better than a wider war. That doesn't make it a US victory The US-Iran ceasefire announced late on April 7 is being celebrated in Washington as a victory, and the relief at avoiding wider catastrophe is genuine. But declarations of victory deserve close scrutiny, and the right question isn't whether the ceasefire is be  more