Although Brexit has raised short-term concerns over FDI flows, the UK economy’s compelling pro-business characteristics should see flows continue at a robust rate. The recent dip in overseas buying of UK companies is also likely to be short-term, t…
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A report by Savills shows UK commercial property sector in general good health but warns six sectors including retail warehouses and regional offices could feel pressure on yields. Louis Bearn reports.
- 6 days ago, 19 Sep 17, 11:02am -

The European Commission has backed legislation to enable the blocking of takeovers by non-EU countries such as China, and ban ‘circumvention’ attempts by shell companies.
- 6 days ago, 19 Sep 17, 10:51am -

While Poland's FDI performance and its competitive edge remain strong, the country's government must be conscious of the message it is sending to investors with nationalist rhetoric, warned participants at the Krynica Economic Forum in south-east Pol…
- 14 days ago, 11 Sep 17, 10:05am -

Poland's populist government is under fire from the EU and other critics for judicial reforms that have been criticised as detrimental to the rule of law in the country. While the backlash has sparked questions from potential investors, Mateusz Mora…
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South Africa’s strategic partnership with the EU helps spur investment, innovation and job creation. Paolo Borzatta of think tank The European House-Ambrosetti and Stavros Nicolaou of pharmaceutical company Aspen discuss how both parties can stre…
- 19 days ago, 6 Sep 17, 6:32am -

As the UK prepares for life outside the EU, China’s One Belt One Road infrastructure programme offers many opportunities. The UK's language, law and learning gives the country an advantage but it must move quickly, says InvestUK’s Rupert Gather.…
- 25 days ago, 31 Aug 17, 6:52am -

After a three-year decline, greenfield FDI into Europe's logistics, distribution and transportation sector rebounded strongly in 2016. However, so far in 2017, the upward trend does not look sustainable, as Cara Lyttle reports.
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Europe has suffered from an infrastructure shortfall over the past decade, writes Douglas Clark. PPPs are helping to alleviate this, but more is needed.
- 39 days ago, 17 Aug 17, 7:01am -

Russia has held firm as fDi’s most diversified commodity economy, followed by Ukraine and Ecuador, in the second annual index measuring the diversity of greenfield foreign investment. Cathy Mullan examines the results. 
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Experts expect fierce internal battles as leaders battle over spoils of success
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Leaders face task of rebuilding after party’s worst postwar defeat
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Lviv region attracts international money despite ongoing conflict further east
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Establishment parties suffer blow, but chancellor on course for fresh term
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French president’s centrist party wins less than 8 per cent of seats
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Party poised to inject conflict into Bundestag tradition of consensus politics
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AfD in line to be first nationalist party since the Nazis to enter German parliament
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Cohesion fund payments should be linked to observing the rule of law
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Chancellor’s fourth victory will be marred by the difficult times ahead, writes Tony Barber
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There are signs of a decline in the bond market, and that spells bad news for the wider economy. The markets are a good predictor of the state of the overall economy, historically around six months ahead of what's to come. The decline, coupled with l…
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Central banking authorities should not be afraid to return to normalized behavior in 2016, the Bank for International Settlements said Sunday in its quarterly report. As new jobs are created in the U.S. and the market becomes more shock absorbent, th…
- 6 Dec 15, 11:42am -

Greek lawmakers approved a 2016 budget early on Sunday including more than 5 billion euros ($5.44 billion) in spending cuts and some 2 billion in higher taxes meant to satisfy international lenders.The leftist-led government of Prime Minister Alexis…
- 5 Dec 15, 7:17pm -

The central governing body of the European monetary union reportedly is on edge as it grapples with British Prime Minister David Cameron's call to reimagine the European Union as a "multicurrency union," the Financial Times reported.
- 5 Dec 15, 3:39pm -

In testimony before Congress Thursday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen expressed confidence that the economy has healed sufficiently to raise benchmark interest rates at the Fed's next rate-setting meeting later this month. "The U.S. economy has…
- 3 Dec 15, 12:29pm -

On a sprawling campus in southern France, a revolutionary kind of power plant is steadily rising from the ground. Scientists and engineers from dozens of countries are building a facility that will eliminate all the negatives of today’s power suppl…
- 3 Dec 15, 11:32am -

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi called on eurozone member states Thursday to do more to improve the economy. Asserting that the ECB's easy-money policy has been "a success," Draghi said nonetheless more needs to be done.
- 3 Dec 15, 10:39am -

UPDATE: 7:47 a.m. EST -- The European Central Bank announced Thursday that it will reduce the deposit rate on reserves held at the central bank by 10 basis points to -0.3 percent, effective from Dec. 9. Further monetary policy measures will be anno…
- 3 Dec 15, 1:02am -

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen laid the groundwork for a modestly optimistic view of the nation's economy and, thus, a basis for a benchmark interest rate hike this month. Such a move would mark the first such increase in almost a decade, som…
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AS SUMMERS go, Marek Miesikowski’s wasn’t bad: a fortnight in Aix-en-Provence, a hop across to Corsica, then winding down in Marseille for a few weeks. Mr Miesikowski, a student from Poland, was hauling ventilation pipes across construction si…
- 4 days ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:44am -

THE streets of Moscow feature many monuments to great figures from Russia’s past: Tolstoy, Pushkin and Tchaikovsky, to name but a few. This week, a new national hero joined their ranks: Mikhail Kalashnikov, eponymous inventor of the rifle. His n…
- 4 days ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:44am -

EACH year Sergi Rubió has joined the huge demonstrations that Catalans have held since 2010 on September 11th, their national day, to demand independence from Spain. This year several hundred thousand people thronged the streets of Barcelona in w…
- 4 days ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:44am -

Babis and his billionaire baggageANDREJ BABIS says the political establishment is conspiring to keep him from power. A billionaire agro-industrialist and media mogul, Mr Babis is the frontrunner to become the Czech Republic’s prime minister aft…
- 4 days ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:44am -

SWEDEN’S Aurora-17 drill, which continues until the end of September, is the biggest war game that the supposedly neutral country has carried out for 23 years. Not only does it involve 19,000 of Sweden’s armed forces (about half of them), includi…
- 4 days ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:44am -

IN A muggy sports hall in Schwerin, in the north-eastern German state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Angela Merkel is holding the 53rd of her 59 election rallies. It is a now-familiar routine. There is the thumping music as she arrives, the black-…
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Progress, of sortsTHE quayside roads that wind along the Seine used to throb with hurtling traffic. Today, potted palm trees have been ranged along the tarmac. Joggers and cyclists enjoy the waterside calm. On a stretch of the right bank opposite…
- 11 days ago, 14 Sep 17, 10:54am -

Unexpected visitors“HELLO! I’m Cornelius Golembiewski from the CDU. Could I give you our manifesto and a leaflet about Johannes Selle, our local candidate?” The woman at the door beams: “We already voted by post, so don’t worry!” Mr G…
- 11 days ago, 14 Sep 17, 10:54am -

NAURAS NERAPI lived a comfortable life in Aleppo as a manager at a French catering company. Then came the Syrian war. He fled through Turkey and the Balkans to Germany, arriving in September 2015. “They put me on a bus but I didn’t know where…
- 11 days ago, 14 Sep 17, 10:54am -

Theresa May needed to say enough in her speech last week to unblock stalled Brexit talks without blowing apart the unity of her government. What made this task so complicated, writes Simon Nixon, was that to secure the first objective, she had to aba…
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An antiestablishment, nationalist party won a foothold in Germany’s parliament Sunday, jolting the country’s political establishment and sending its multiparty system into uncharted waters.
- 2 hours ago, 24 Sep 17, 10:48pm -

German voters handed Angela Merkel a disappointing victory on Sunday, forcing her into what will be one of her most delicate balancing acts since she took power 12 years ago.
- 3 hours ago, 24 Sep 17, 10:01pm -

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance won the German election, but a steep drop in its support and an anti-immigrant party’s surge signaled political turbulence ahead for Europe’s largest economy.
- 3 hours ago, 24 Sep 17, 9:52pm -

Spain’s efforts to stop Catalonia’s independence referendum by arresting separatist leaders and confiscating ballots may prevent millions of Catalans from formally voting on Oct. 1, but may not avert a crisis.
- 9 hours ago, 24 Sep 17, 3:48pm -

Germany’s seemingly predictable election campaign may well have a twist in its tail. If the last opinion polls before Sunday’s parliamentary elections are a guide, the crumbling of Europe’s old political order is affecting even the continent’…
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After a strong recovery under Merkel, the economy is vulnerable to changes sweeping the world.
- 12 hours ago, 24 Sep 17, 12:16pm -

The antiestablishment 5 Star Movement on Saturday anointed 31-year old Luigi Di Maio, one of its most moderate leaders, as its candidate for premier in Italy’s national elections next year.
- 17 hours ago, 24 Sep 17, 7:48am -

Spanish police arrested a man for alleged collaboration with the terrorists that killed 16 people in Spain last month, the country’s interior ministry said, in a sign that the cell is larger than investigators had initially indicated.
- 2 days ago, 23 Sep 17, 8:39am -

British Prime Minister Theresa May said the U.K. would honor its financial commitments to the European Union’s current budget and seek to retain current terms of trade for two years after its planned exit in 2019.
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