- Greece’s hard-left party Syriza, which is leading polls ahead of this month’s snap election, has declared war on the country’s oligarchs who exert disproportionate sway over the economy
- The succession for Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the ailing king of Saudi Arabia, has been carefully planned but his immediate successors are themselves elderly and there are questions over who will succeed them
- Just like in 2012, eurozone leaders are wary of Syriza’s leader Alexis Tsipras, but this time his calls for debt relief create the problem of political uncertainty, rather than survival of the currency bloc
- The growth of the banking sector, particularly in the US and UK, has helped turn back the egalitarian trend witnessed in the half-century to 1970 through a sharp rise in income inequality, writes John Kay
- The Eurasian Union that came into effect on January 1 isn’t a sign of Moscow’s growing regional influence. It’s a sign of its decline, argues Reid Standish in Foreign Policy
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Smart Reads 7 January 2015
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