Ahead of the Malta Summit, a key gathering of the EU Leaders to discuss the future of the Union, that will happen on the 3rd of January, former polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, charting his views on strategic issues, highlighting the upcoming threats to the Union: a more challanging geopolitical space, nationalism and populism.

As a disability inclusive development worker my thoughts are that there needs to be an incorporation of a welfare system that ensures children with disability can continue to enjoy the highest affordable standards of life even after the loss of their parents or guardians.

Perspectives on Global Development 2017 presents an overview of the shifting of economic activity to developing countries and examines whether this shift has led to an increase in international migration towards developing countries. The report focuses on the latest data on migration between 1995 and 2015, and uses a new three-way categorisation of countries.

“[Liberalism’s] success has been so hegemonic for so long it’s not surprising there’s a reaction against it.” The problem is there’s a version of liberalism—globalization, the opening of frontiers, allowing the flow of goods and services across them—that doesn’t work for everyone in the West"