The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is investing in a $2090m JV in London’s real estate sector, making it the UK’s largest inbound greenfield investment in 2018 so far, according to fDi Markets.
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Tim Bowles, mayor of the west of England, tells Sebastian Shehadi about the region’s strong economic story, evidenced by the high number of people and businesses moving there.
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Department for International Trade announces tool to promote $43bn-worth of FDI ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
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The Wallonia region of Belgium has built itself up into a life sciences hub, leveraging on its range of academic and medical resources and central location.
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Spain's Soria province is little-known even to many Spaniards but now local businesses and governments are taking the initiative to raise its profile to outside investors. Courtney Fingar reports.
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Since his election, president Emmanuel Macron has been on a mission to better control Chinese FDI in France. But doing so without threatening investors is a tricky balancing act, as Cécile Sourbes finds.
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Lithuania’s Klaipeda free economic zone is keen to attract UK firms considering relocation into the eurozone, and has some timely solutions prepared, as chief executive Eimantas Kiudulas tells Wendy Atkins.
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With massive potential in the tourism and energy sectors, Albania is ripe for development. But first it must weed out corruption in the legal system and the property sector, writes Jason Mitchell.
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The theoretical tension between European law and international investment law is no longer theoretical. Michael D Goldhaber reports.
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Still troubled, but not without prospects of an economic revival, can Ukraine overcome political instability and bring investors back? Yuri Bender investigates.-
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President held talks with Macron ahead of US deadline to ‘fix’ the nuclear accord
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It is possible for the EU27 to stand still without big, painful changes
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US law group prepared report on prosecution of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko
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Funds go into escrow while Brussels ruling on illegal state aid challenged
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Brussels takes hard line over implementation of takeover PT Portugal before approval
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Rivals seek to combine efforts in battle for parliament and presidency
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French president seeks to bolster relationship in carefully choreographed state visit
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Central council president’s advice follows anti-Semitic attack in Berlin
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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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FOR a glimpse of Poland under the populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, tune in to the news on the state television channel, Telewizja Polska (TVP). The opening sequence, a computer-animated tour of Polish landmarks, homes in on the clock tower of…
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Spot the impostorsON A spring morning in Extremadura, a few miles from the border with Portugal, a herd of brown Ibérico pigs is gambolling in the dehesa, the open parkland that occupies a broad swathe of south-eastern Spain. The pigs are clean…
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WHEN France’s president speaks about Europe, his remarks are directed in part at Germany. Before his election in 2017 Emmanuel Macron went to great lengths to show Angela Merkel that he could be a credible partner. He lauded her leadership on re…
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TELEGRAM, a sleek online messaging service founded in 2013, has 200m users worldwide. About 15m of them are in Russia, the homeland of its founder, Pavel Durov. Russia’s business and political elite have taken to its anonymous “channel” feature…
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“I BELIEVE that one person must not aspire to the reins of power more than twice in a lifetime,” Serzh Sargsyan, then president of Armenia, declared in 2014. But the unpopular Mr Sargsyan, whose second (and final) consecutive term as president ex…
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RUSSIA attracts conspiracy theories. Just ask the thousands of Poles who marched on April 10th, the eighth anniversary of the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, that killed Lech Kaczynski, then Poland’s president, and 95 other passengers. As alw…
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Blame the boyarsTHE stench hanging over Volokolamsk, a sleepy town west of Moscow, stings the nostrils like tiny needles. Downwind from the nearby Yadrovo landfill site, the noxious blend of sulphur, rot and methane becomes unbearable. Last month…
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Booming BakuTHE last time a presidential election was held in Azerbaijan, in 2013, the central election commission began releasing the results a day before voting had even started. Embarrassed officials blamed a technical glitch. This time round,…
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ANTONIO COSTA, Portugal’s affable prime minister, greets your columnist with a broad grin as he settles his hefty frame into a sofa in his official residence. He has a lot to smile about. Lisbon, among Europe’s hottest tourist destinations, is…
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WHEN Recep Tayyip Erdogan travelled to Greece late last year, the first such trip by a Turkish president in more than six decades, hopes surfaced that he and his hosts might hammer out a formula to reduce tensions. The past couple of months have d…
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Trade disputes and a stronger currency are threatening a hard-fought economic recovery in the 19-nation eurozone, potentially delaying a move by the ECB to follow the Federal Reserve in increasing short-term interest rates.
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French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Washington for the first state visit of Donald Trump’s presidency, in a test of whether personal chemistry between the two leaders can bridge a yawning policy divide.
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The U.K.’s looming exit from the European Union brought senior European officials to Spain’s main naval base for a military display designed to make the case for Spain to take over the U.K.’s command-and-control role.
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As economic growth returns to Greece after a decade of crisis, so are some businesses that once wrote the country off.
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President Sergio Mattarella kicked off a fourth round of consultations among political parties to try to form a new government, as the likelihood of brokering a deal fades nearly two months after national elections.
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Groups of locals attacked migrants camping on the island of Lesbos, underscoring the continued tensions on Greek islands that continue to see thousands of Middle Eastern people arriving from Turkey each month.
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Seventy years after its foundation, Britain’s beloved National Health Service, which delivers free care for all, struggles with chronic shortages, and politicians and experts are debating whether more public spending alone is the right solution.
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Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen asked a federal judge here Friday to halt a civil case against him in light of the criminal investigation embroiling him in New York.
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The first assessment by the State Department under the Trump administration also reflects some policy changes.
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The CIA released a 2011 internal memo saying Gina Haspel wasn’t to blame for the destruction of videotaped interrogations of terror suspects, an effort to shore up support on Capitol Hill for her nomination to lead the spy agency.
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