The USA has become the bigger oil producer in the world , having surpassed the other two great producers , Russia and Saudi Arabia, and this is bound to change the geopolitic relationship with the Middle East.
Mexico is not yet a failed state; parts of the country remain reasonably safe, but the mayhem is spreading, and the influence of drug money within all three major political parties is now taken for granted.
The Karlsruhe Court has taken into account the position of the Bundesbank, which suffered the birth of the European monetary unification, and has become the very source of inspiration for every Euroscepticism.
The empirical non-falsifiability of structural reform policies underpins the consensus between the national and supranational levels. It enables all of the actors to sell a policy that no one understands or can even refute.
There is an authoritarian trend in Europe. The neoliberal inspired market deregulation has been the destroyer of freedom, as it is shown by the weakening of the power of trade unions and other popular organizations.