Interview with China’s ’21st Century Business Herld’
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Just interviewed by Chinese business daily 21st Century Business Herald (21世纪经济报道|). Here is the Q&A, in English of course… 1. May I take the liberty to ask why you moved from Greece to the United States? Momentous decision...
Interview with China’s ’21st Century Business Herld’
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Just interviewed by Chinese business daily 21st Century Business Herald (21世纪经济报道|). Here is the Q&A, in English of course… 1. May I take the liberty to ask why you moved from Greece to the United States? Momentous decision...
The Closer
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ROUND-UPThe Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its highest since December 28, 2007. A strong ISM reading helped push the index to close 13279.32, up 0.5 per cent (Wall Street Journal)....
Alla Franca, Alla Turca
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For the first time we crossed an actual border: passports, customs, vehicle check. It was all very exciting and we felt somewhat more abroad once we were on Turkish ground. Our first impressions? For one, nationalism showed its face right … Con...
Stocks Rise On ISM Report
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Financial Market Report for May 1, 2012 1) … Stocks rose today on the ISM Report Residential REITS, REZ, and shopping center REITS, such as Simon Property Group, SPG, take Real Estate, IYR, and Small Cap Real Estate to new highs, which in turn...
South Africa still needs coal for energy
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Greenpeace has challenged South Africa´s major energy company Eskom in a spoof ad to cancel the building of the coal-fired power plant Kusile. However, Eskom´s reply to the enviro-fundamentalists is quite clear: The electricity utility's respo...
The Greek election could be the start of a European spring | Costas Douzinas
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A François Hollande win in France would challenge the EU's austerity agenda – but if the Greek left does well it could set Europe on an entirely new pathSunday may be the first day of a European spring. In the French election a victory for Franço...
1. Mai in Europa
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Gute Arbeit in Europa – das Motto des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes zum 1. Mai war treffend gewählt. Denn der Blick über nationale Grenzen hinweg ist notwendiger denn je. Noch nie war die Weltwirtschaft so eng miteinander vernetzt, noch nie w...
Is Brian Coleman losing it? Tory cllr “goes mad” at shopkeepers
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Tory councillor Brian Coleman has been accused of “going mad” after storming into high street stores and screaming at staff. According to shop-owners on High Barnet’s high street, Coleman demanded that staff remove posters campaig...
Turkish politics roundup: New constitution debates, Ergenekon Trial, Erdoğan the Aesthete
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TweetShare via emailToward Turkey’s first civilian constitution More than a thousand of people sitting around circular tables of six and seven each on the floor of a sports arena The new constitution and a warning to the AK Party from Today’s...
Nos azotan vientos de neopopulismo europeo: navegando entre ultras y piratas
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Sabida es la afición twittera del presidente del Consejo Europeo, Herman Van Rompuy, para comunicar su agenda de trabajo, pero resulta novedoso que emplee la red social para lanzar mensajes con sus preocupaciones políticas más íntimas. “Desgra...
Why I am Voting Yes – For Stability
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A number of people have asked me why I am voting yes in the upcoming referendum on the Stability Treaty (Fiscal Compact, whatever you want to call it!), so I have decided to do a series of posts on why I am voting Yes. Here is the first part of the s...
Italy: Future of News at Perugia International Journalism Festival
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From April 25-29, Perugia, a charming city in the Italian region of Umbria became a vibrant meeting point for media enthousiasts and journalists from all over the world, with the 2012 International Journalism Festival. Global Voices was present of co...
Dodd-Franking, to date
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April 2012 was a pretty big month in Dodd-Frank Act rulemaking; the SEC and CFTC agreed how to define “swap dealer”, “major swap participant”, et al. under...
The Prince, the Producer and the ECHR
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What do German music producer Dieter Bohlen (right, the German equivalent to Simon Cowell) and Prince Ernst August of Hanover (also known as husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco) in common? Not much at first glance. However, according t...
Intercultural communication for reintegration
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A debate on the Western Balkans at Centrál Kávéház held by cafebabel.com What features characterize the European history of the Balkans? What level of integration do our southern neighbours need and through what means? The Budapest team of Europe...
French Presidential elections: un vote pour Hollande, une gifle pour Merkel!
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The increase in the vote of the extreme right, the fall of the Dutch government, the bonds speculation against Spain, the problems of adjustment of the Monti government, the continuous disintegration of the Portuguese, Spanish and Greek societies ...
Dear Bank of Japan: So you tried the easing thing a gazillion times…
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… might it be time for something (relatively) new? One question that keeps on popping up is, what is stopping Japan from adopting a currency peg a lá the Swiss National...
Green growth sounds nice, but can it deliver climate change mitigation?
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“Green growth” may provide false hope and excuses to do nothing really fundamental to bring about a U-turn in global GHG emissions. The arithmetic of economic and population growth, efficiency limits related to the rebound effect, as well as syst...
“Leftish” economists debate the Euro-crisis
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This is important: By Martin Thomas (Workers Liberty) Current European Union policies will produce “Great Depression conditions for a decade” in southern Europe, predicts economist Engelbert Stockhammer. Stockhammer was the opening spea...
“Leftish” economists debate the Euro-crisis
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This is important: By Martin Thomas (Workers Liberty) Current European Union policies will produce “Great Depression conditions for a decade” in southern Europe, predicts economist Engelbert Stockhammer. Stockhammer was the opening spea...
Hoisted aloft
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POLAND has celebrated "Flag Day" on May 2nd since 2004. Asked what it means, most Poles shrug. Some say it is a jingoistic gimmick to plug the gap between Labour Day, on May 1st, and the May 3rd anniversary of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's 17...
Nicolas Sarkozy is a political weathervane | Agnès Poirier
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The French president's latest bout of 'temporary amnesia' has been cured, but it's impossible to know what he stands forSince the beginning of his blitzkrieg campaign, which he imagined short, sharp and neat but proved to be tortuous and terribly mes...
Greek Elections and the Euro
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With elections in Greece and France, most attention has been directed to France. But don't ignore Greece.
Review: Engineering Equality: An Essay on European Anti-Discrimination Law by Alexander Somek
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Dr. Iyiola Solanke The evolution of anti-discrimination law (ADL) has been an incremental affair: Britain was the first European country to introduce non-contractual legal protection against discrimination after WWII – in 1965 it passed its first R...
The End of McDonald's-Bashing? "In the Hands of French Chefs, the Hamburger Has Become Haute Couture"
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More and more, the French are coming to see the light (this in the country that is the second-largest market for the McDonald's chain), and are discovering that the hamburger and that the cheeseburger are (dramatic pause) … tasty! Not only that, it...
May 16 Deadline to Register for ECHA 7th Stakeholders' Day
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Wednesday, May 16th is the last chance to register to ECHA's seventh Stakeholders' Day.Registration for the Agency's Seventh Stakeholders' Day conference will be open until 16:00 (GMT +3). The conference takes place in the Helsinki Exhibition and Con...
UKIP candidate: ‘Koran is worse than Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf’
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A candidate for UKIP has compared Islam’s holiest book to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, Political Scrapbook can reveal. Academic Julia Gasper — a former Westminster hopeful and current council candidate in Oxford – said the K...
