Morning multilateralism

Hungary yields to IMF and EU pressure, for the moment. Meanwhile, the IMF sells 403.3 metric tons of gold to Bangladesh to bolster its balance sheet. Key appointment: the World Bank names a clean energy czar. Diplomats at the U.N. reportedly strike a deal on Millenium Development Goals. Russian envoy claims that joining NATO would ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

Hungary yields to IMF and EU pressure, for the moment.

Hungary yields to IMF and EU pressure, for the moment.

Meanwhile, the IMF sells 403.3 metric tons of gold to Bangladesh to bolster its balance sheet.

Key appointment: the World Bank names a clean energy czar.

Diplomats at the U.N. reportedly strike a deal on Millenium Development Goals.

Russian envoy claims that joining NATO would be senseless.

Leverage: Portugal’s police threaten to strike when NATO holds its planned summit.

A call for the Basel bankers to hold firm on capital requirements.

Report: No G-20 meeting in October.

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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