The Closer
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ROUND-UP The US S&P 500 ended the trading day down 0.90 per cent despite a late rally, while Spanish yields climbed yet again to euro-era highs and the outlook for US corporates...
Des livres comme des compagnons de vie
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relectures-vacances Des livres dont la lecture raconte en filigrane notre propre histoire Pour moi, la liste de ces livres est assez limitée, même si j’espère qu’elle s’agrandira avec le temps. [...]...
Why Reinhold Niebuhr Matters for Transatlantic Relations Today
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Appreciating Niebuhr today helps guard us against imagining an idyllic era in transatlantic relations that in reality never was.
Apple Q3 Earnings
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Big disappointment with today’s earnings report from Apple….Analysts were expecting Apple to report sales of $37.2 bn and earnings per share of $10.36. Instead...
Environmental concerns in East Africa
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The World Bank has approved funding credit for a major transmission line that would link Kenya to the controversial Gilgel Gibe III dam site in southern Ethiopia, pushing back against months of calls by local and international rights and environme...
Africa to be the next growth frontier
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According to the South Africa’s Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies, the world has started to recognise Africa as the next growth frontier. Mr. Davies says Africa still faces the challenge of turning the growth spirit experienced in...
A Spanish bailout? Don't hold your breath | Megan Greene
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Borrowing costs are high, but Spanish reluctance to seek a bailout at the moment makes very good senseIt is a rule of thumb among eurozone crisis observers that the more something is denied by officials, the more likely it is to happen. With Spain's...
Britain: keen on easing Zimbabwe sanctions
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According to the BBC, Britain has backed moves by the European Union (EU) to relax sanctions on Zimbabwe . As the Foreign Affairs Council will make a decision early this week, the British Foreign Office Minister, Henry Bellingham told the BBC th...
The academics on QE… for now
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We’ll be back later with a proper preview of next week’s FOMC meeting, but for now here is something to argue about:1. QE1 was more effective than QE2.2. It is...
The Costa Blanca is home to the very best luxury villas Spain has to offer
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Do not be misled, the luxury villas Spain, especially the Costa Blanca, are home to usually are not all constructed precisely the same, and behind safe gates. The luxury villas Spain has on offer to you additionally include buildings with tradition w...
EIF Visits AT&T in NYC
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Over the past several days, the European Internet Foundation (EIF) organized a tour of the U.S. to discuss and learn more about global communications. The European Internet Foundation is led and governed by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
What’s Yours is Theirs’
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L’Express’ personal fiance section runs down a list of things that will come under taxation assault in France. Painful and economically stupefying as they are, they don’t appear to produce much in the way of receipts.Unearned income of all typ...
European economists who blog
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Well, an other list, personal note... with a kind of wish list... the country is that (supposed to be) of origin not that where they're working, as far as I understood.I will keep updating this list, also my twenty-five readers can make sug...
Reflections on language and authority
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This could maybe sound like Old World snobbishness, but it’s not meant that way. I am interested in the way Americans use language. For many, it is not their mother tongue. As British English speakers within the EU institutions are unthinkingly...
For how long this crisis?
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Italy is the European state having 10 of its cities declaring incapability of payment serving. Span’s 10-year bonds are regularly getting underrated in the market decreasing the credibility of the country’s public finance status. Greece i...
Russia´s Gazprom tries to belittle the US shale gas revolution
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As we all know, the shale gas revolution has been - and will continue to be a gamechanger in US and global energy markets. As T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oil magnate, so rightly has stated, abundant gas reserves in the United States make the cou...
France and Italy have some disdain for Spain
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Spain's Mendez de Vigo, right, with his Danish counterpart at a Brussels meeting in May. An otherwise uneventful meeting of 27 European ministers in Brussels was upended Tuesday when Inigo Méndez de Vigo, Spain’s EU minister, issued a sta...
Judicial Review and the European Courts: Working With Our Partners. Part 1
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Rhodri Thompson QC In the first of two posts considering the relationship between the UK courts and their EU and ECHR counterparts, Rhodri Thompson QC reminds us of the fundamental constitutional structure of the EU and sets out some of … Conti...
Book review: 'Circus Bulgaria' by Deyan Enev
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The fifty stories in the Bulgarian writer’s short story collection, in an English translation by Kapka Kassabova, are so stuffed full of richness and laden with oddities that it is tempting to quote whole pages verbatim. It’s one of those rare bo...
Book review: 'Circus Bulgaria' by Deyan Enev
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The fifty stories in the Bulgarian writer’s short story collection, in an English translation by Kapka Kassabova, are so stuffed full of richness and laden with oddities that it is tempting to quote whole pages verbatim. It’s one of those rare bo...
Only fools pay tax, Greek edition (encore)
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The euro crisis spotlight may be focused on Spain and the larger euro members this week, but it’s unlikely to be long before it swings right around to Greece. Again.It...
Your opinion can make a difference <- Fontsize
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Dear reader,today the first complaint ever about the fond size used here on the blog was filed.Unfortunately the anonymous critic did not specify what he/she had in mind and on what 'platform' (screen size) he/she tried unsuccessfully to read a blog...
Germany would do well to heed the Moody's warning shot | Fabian Lindner
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Though Germany has weathered the eurozone crisis its economic policies have put its banks and industry at serious riskMoody's decision to change its rating outlook for Germany from stable to negative is a warning shot. Although it is unlikely that Mo...
A Deutsche Bank update
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A preliminary warning update from Deutsche Bank on Tuesday (flashes via Reuters):DEUTSCHE BANK AG PROVIDES PRELIMINARY UPDATE ON SECOND QUARTER 2012 RESULTS: COSTS IMPACTED BY...
'Cautious optimism' on Zimbabwe as EU eases sanctions
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The EU showed in the case of Burma that democratic progress would be rewarded – and loosening restrictive measures on Zimbabwe could help speed up reforms there, writes Geoffrey Van Orden...
Mapping European economic-policy think tanks
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This post is a kind of personal, but public, list of "enriched" bookmarks of European think tanks I stumble upon. It could keep growing in the future if I find other relevant think tanks.I have divided the list in two fields according to this basic d...
Hungary’s Rate Setters Choose Safety First, Keep Rates High
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A “significant majority” of Hungary’s rate setters Tuesday voted to keep the central bank's base interest rate unchanged at 7%, the highest level in the European Union.
Tunnel vision
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SLOVAK officials discovered a 700-metre tunnel complete with its own train used to smuggle goods and maybe people from neighbouring Ukraine into the European Union (EU). They seized some 13,100 boxes of cigarettes and arres...
Ankete destek olalım beyler, bayanlar:) “Türkiye’de Sosyal Kimlikler
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Anket burada Merhaba, Araştırmamıza ilgi gösterdiğiniz için teşekkür ederiz. Anketi tamamlayanlar arasında çekilecek kurayla 5 kişiye 25′er liralık D&R hediye çeki verilecektir. Çekilişe katılmak istiyorsanız anketin sonund...
For how long this crisis?
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Italy is the European state having 10 of its cities declaring incapability of payment serving. Span’s 10-year bonds are regularly getting underrated in the market decreasing the credibility of the country’s public finance status. Greece i...
The mighty Mississippi
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At one stage this afternoon we crossed the mighty Mississippi River and, in so doing crossed the State Line from Illinois to Iowa. The bridge, with a swing section for big ships, isn’t much to write home about but the river is broad and, yes, i...
Plans for an EAC Renewable Energy Centre in the works
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According to recent updates by All Africa, plans to establish a renewable energy efficiency and conservation centre for the East African Community (EAC) are on track. The deputy Secretary General of EAC in charge of Productive and Social Secto...
EU leads development work in Tanzania
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According to the European Commission, although Tanzania averaged 6-7% GDP growth in the last decade, it remains one of the world's poorest countries in the world, with many people still living below the poverty line of $1.25/day.
