Poland’s Wrocław has turned in a stellar performance in fDi’s Return on Investment study, landing the city the top slot in the Return on Budget and Return on Personnel Investment categories. 
- 25 Feb 20, 8:27am -

The trend towards the vetting of foreign investment, especially projects that involve advanced technology and national data or pose potential security threats, is on the rise. David Gabathuler and Matthew T West give a trans-Atlantic perspective.
- 25 Feb 20, 8:27am -

Authorities in the US, the EU and across the developed world are stepping up efforts to scrutinise foreign investment on the grounds of both national security and tech sovereignty.
- 25 Feb 20, 8:26am -

Sustainability is gaining traction in the creative industries, with the Italian region of Trentino designing a film production rating protocol that is being considered by the EU.
- 25 Feb 20, 8:26am -

Venture capital funding has reached record levels in recent years, enabling start-ups to expand across borders – but their ability to do this depends on their type of business, and where they are founded.
- 25 Feb 20, 8:23am -

The UK’s prime minister has pledged to rebalance the UK economy away from a dominant London. However, this might require greater incentives for foreign investment in the regions outside of the capital, which are underperforming. 
- 25 Feb 20, 8:23am -

From historically underperforming when compared with its peers, the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate is now attracting major investment projects on the back of its auto and electrification expertise.
- 25 Feb 20, 8:18am -

Warsaw already offers a skilled workforce and has improved its infrastructure – now it must focus on climate change and reducing congestion, mayor Rafał Trzaskowski tells fDi.
- 25 Feb 20, 8:12am -

Serbia’s 15 free zones are driving forward an ongoing flurry of foreign investment in the country’s buoyant manufacturing scene, especially in automotives.
- 20 Feb 20, 11:04am -

London event hears how the UK export credit agency is increasing its focus on trade with African countries. Jason Mitchell reports.
- 20 Feb 20, 6:25am -

Better than expected result for Plenkovic’s conservatives as virus deters voters
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Consumers’ pandemic cash stash could help drive economic recovery — or hold back growth
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By choosing a technocrat as PM, the president leaves himself exposed
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Labour minister Yolanda Díaz vows worst-hit sectors will not be cut adrift
- 8 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 11:00am -

Opposition’s presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski faces formidable challenge in run-off
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Solving the EU’s problems will take more than her coronavirus recovery plan
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Missed deadline prompts warnings of disruption as fund groups already grapple with the pandemic
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Prime minister says his country has ‘matured a lot’ since debt crisis and will set its own agenda
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Snub branded a ‘sad moment’ in relations between the two countries
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Edouard Philippe dropped in bid to reignite presidency before 2022 election
- 2 days ago, 3 Jul 20, 1:11pm -

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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- 2 Dec 15, 6:15am -

IN A PRISON outside Istanbul, Osman, an inmate held in solitary confinement, finds two snails nestled in his lunch. Longing for company, he decides to look after the gastropods, feeding them lettuce and rice. The snails reward him—with a song. “I…
- 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 10:59am -

WHEN HE WON the French presidency in 2017 at the age of 39, Emmanuel Macron triumphed in France’s big cities. In Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Strasbourg he topped first-round voting, and grabbed over 81% of the run-off vote against the nationalist Mar…
- 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 10:59am -

ON JUNE 30TH Vladimir Putin posed in front of a 25-metre bronze statue to the Soviet soldier which he had just unveiled. Filmed from below, to give him extra height, President Putin appealed to his people to vote on a package of constitutional change…
- 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 10:59am -

- 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 10:59am -

Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hubIN THE TELEVISION series “The Bridge”, a Danish and a Swedish detective must c…
- 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 10:59am -

PAYING €7.50 to vote is annoying, but it beats a 10-hour round trip on a bus. Aleksandra Sojka, a Polish academic who works in Spain, had to post her ballot in the first round of the Polish presidential election on June 28th. This is an improvement…
- 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 10:59am -

TUCKED BEHIND a craggy peak on the Mediterranean coast, La Ciotat has served as a harbour for local fishermen since the 15th century. Today, the port is better known for a different sort of seafarer. One in seven of the world’s superyachts over 50…
- 10 days ago, 25 Jun 20, 11:01am -

WALK INTO any meeting in Brussels and, most likely, a German will be leading it. In the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the former German defence minister, is in charge. For the next six months, German ministers will be cajoling their peer…
- 10 days ago, 25 Jun 20, 11:01am -

“IT’S LIKE having a stroke, and then a second one in the ambulance,” sighs Stefan Weiler, economic-development chief for Kaiserslautern, in south-west Germany. The city was already battling high debt and the effects of covid-19. Then came Donal…
- 10 days ago, 25 Jun 20, 11:01am -

HASHIM THACI had clearly not been expecting to be charged with war crimes, murder and torture on the afternoon of June 24th. A few hours earlier, the president of Kosovo had been busy discussing a much-ballyhooed summit planned for three days later i…
- 10 days ago, 25 Jun 20, 11:01am -

Progressives deride his defense of America’s founding principles.
- 3 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 3:55pm -

‘You’ll have an NEA member in the White House,’ he says.
- 3 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 3:52pm -

The dictator wants $1 billion in bullion, but a U.K. judge says no.
- 3 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 3:50pm -

Taxpayers, parents and donors need to save higher education from activists who claim to be scholars.
- 5 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 2:30pm -

Service members move too often to start the process from scratch every time.
- 5 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 2:29pm -

I’m giving my kids a musical education via strategic intrusions into their playlists.
- 5 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 2:28pm -

The drug war created the crime problem. The president is making it worse.
- 5 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 2:26pm -

Innovation sneaks up on us: There’s a new DNA test that detects more illnesses, earlier.
- 5 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 2:26pm -

Drugs that mimic an immune response are in development, but it’s time to ramp up manufacturing.
- 6 hours ago, 5 Jul 20, 1:22pm -

Most came to Mount Rushmore for picnics and fireworks, not protest.
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