US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker may have averted a trade war last month, but the challenges confronting the European Union are far from resolved. In today’s increasingly Hobbesian global environment, the EU can survive only by increasing its capacity to project power.With the 1957 Treaty of Rome, Europe shed what remained of its militaristic impulses and focused on building a single market. From then on, Europe’s only means of projecting power woul

Gig companies such as Uber, DoorDash and Instacart portray themselves as brave and brilliant innovators, underdog entrepreneurs whose explosive growth simply reflects that they’ve built a better mousetrap. But the companies have been sued again and again, in the United States and around the globe, by workers who say these businesses prosper by violating their workers’ basic legal rights.　That charge invites a question: Can gig companies survive without breaking the law? Apparently not, according

Economy-related ministers, the Cheong Wa Dae chief policymaker and ruling party floor leader held an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss ways to tackle the worsening employment situation.　The number of those employed increased by a mere 5,000 in July from the same month last year, the worst figure since July 2010. The on-year employment increase shrank to one-63rd of last year’s monthly average increase of 316,000. 　It was a belated but much-needed wake-up call regarding the seriousness of the j

The National Assembly’s decision to scrap most of the controversial “special activity funds” that had been received by lawmakers like pocket money was long overdue. It is imperative that offices in the executive and judiciary branches follow suit. The funds in the special activity accounts of public offices are intended to finance government operations that require confidentiality, including intelligence gathering, clandestine investigations and other covert operations. In general, the funds are

The team of special counsel Huh Ik-bum investigating a high-profile online opinion-rigging case has made the right decision to seek a warrant to detain a key figure in the case -- South Gyeongsang Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo. Half a dozen people suspected of collaborating with Kim for the alleged massive manipulation of online posts are in detention. Therefore, it is only fair that the special counsel team seek custody of the governor who had allegedly maintained relationships with the suspects since la