Bradford has been rated as the most improved city by the Good Growth for Cities 2019 index, while Oxford remained the highest performing UK city.
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The announcement of a €1.8bn lithium-ion battery production facility in Thuringia by China's CATL has put the small German federal state on the map.
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Despite its thriving automotive sector, Gothenburg is vulnerable to global economic pressures. However, local authorities are confident that their strategies will see the city ride out the uncertainties related to Brexit and the US-China trade wars.
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Mannheim in south-west Germany is leaning on its rich cultural and creative history to carve out a niche for its start-up ecosystem.
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Passion Capital's Eileen Burbidge talks to fDi about what fintech companies should consider when expanding internationally, and why London will always be a key market in the sector.
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The global move to automation promises a rough ride for emerging nations – but developed countries should buckle up for change, too.
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Armenian president Armen Sarkissian shares his vision for the future of the country, which focuses on reinforcing education at all levels and reducing corruption. 
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Despite nurturing its R&D capacity, the city of Braunschweig lags its German peers in attracting FDI. Now it hopes a focus on the mobility sector will mean its technical skills are matched with investment.
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Guido Meinelt, plant manager at Dräxlmaier’s Moldova branches in Bălți, discusses how the German automotive component supplier is the eastern European country's largest foreign investor – and is still expanding. 
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Radu Lazar, regional manager at Endava – Moldova's largest tech company, now listed on the NYSE – details the difficulties of operating in such a small market, but also accentuates the positives.
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EU28 ambassadors meet on Monday morning to see if they can come up with a compromise that can keep all sides happy
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Brussels’ competition enforcer says Dutch plan to bolster EU law could be ‘handy’ tool
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No easy conclusions from Microsoft’s diplomat in chief
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Prague, Warsaw, Budapest and Bratislava seek direct funds from Brussels
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Country could be added to watchdog’s ‘grey list’ if shortcomings not addressed
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A thriving centre for technological and creative industries, the city also has numerous cultural attractions
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A one-sided Senate trial will be anything but a balanced reckoning
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Michael Gove insists talks ‘will be concluded next year’ despite Brussels’ warnings
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Stripped of leverage over Westminster the DUP shifts focus to Belfast administration
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Albin Kurti tells FT he is willing to put aside demand to unify with Albania to boost economy
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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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THE WORLD’S climate experts, activists and officials were gathered in Madrid this week for the 25th annual UN climate talks. But the big news was unfolding far away in Brussels, where the European Commission’s new president, Ursula von der Leyen,…
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AFTER MONTHS of talks, endless delays and a week of disruptive strikes, the French government finally unveiled on December 11th its long-promised pension reform. The good news is that it has decided to press ahead with its plans, including the abolit…
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HAS RUSSIA quietly taken back control of Moldova? Many observers reckon that is what, in effect, happened in the tiny former Soviet republic in November, when a pro-Western government abruptly collapsed, to be replaced by a new one that leans firmly…
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FINLAND NOW has the world’s youngest serving prime minister. On December 10th Sanna Marin (pictured, second from right), who is 34, was sworn in at the head of a coalition whose four other component parties are also led by women. Three of them are…
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THE STREETS of Barcelona twinkle with Christmas lights. The city council has quietly re-asphalted bits of roadway that were damaged by the nightly fires and barricades that lasted for a week in October, after nine Catalan separatist leaders were sent…
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ON DECEMBER 9TH the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from major sporting events for four years. The ban will apply to next year’s Olympics in Tokyo, the 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing and that year’s football World Cup, to be held i…
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THE OPENING ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 was meant to be the defining moment of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, showing off a resurgent Russia to the world and turbocharging his popularity at home. With a price tag of $50bn, he left n…
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IT COST HER her life. But, in the end, Daphne Caruana Galizia, a dogged Maltese journalist, brought down from her grave the man she believed had allowed corruption to flourish as he made his island state progressively richer.On December 1st Joseph M…
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“WALTER WHO? Saskia what?” Bild, a tabloid, posed the question many Germans will have asked on November 30th when members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) elected Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken as co-leaders. The obscure left-leaning…
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Editor’s note: This piece has been updated. FRANCE FACED acute disruption on roads, railways and schools again today after massive participation on the first day of a rolling general strike against upcoming pension reform on December 5th. On day t…
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New Nafta is worse than the old deal but is at least a political relief.
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China again uses its commercial strength to silence critics abroad.
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A new study shows how a rising minimum wage hurts little companies.
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What the media doesn’t want you to know about the Horowitz report.
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Rising debt levels and an unsustainable economic model leave Beijing at Washington’s mercy.
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The firms she vilifies are vital for improving lagging businesses, and their returns are widely shared.
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The systems are emerging one by one, but developers have hit a few speed bumps.
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AMLO dreams of autarky as the U.S. and Canada commit to regional integration.
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The real question is whether each is based in liberty or coercion.
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The North Carolina Senator was wrong about the FISA order.
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