Russia continues to lead the fDi Diversification Index, followed by Ukraine and Ecuador. Cathy Mullan reports.
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France’s inbound FDI has reached its highest since the 2008 financial crisis.
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Japanese investment into western Europe has risen since 2013, and looks set for a boost from the latest free trade deal.
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Brexit is rarely far from the headlines in the UK, with an endless stream of politicians making various outlandish claims about what it will bring. Less heard are the voices of foreign investors, and, as Courtney Fingar describes, their views on the…
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Albania’s reformist government has pinned its hopes on EU accession. Ahead of a crucial vote by the European Council in June that saw Albania’s wishes granted but on a delayed timeline, minister of finance and economy Arben Ahmetaj tells Courtn…
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Ongoing uncertainty about the future of UK-EU relations is already having a significant impact on EU27 businesses, while the UK is seeing reduced trade and investment and fewer skills crossing the Channel, according to Baker McKenzie’s recent surve…
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Improved living standards and a disciplined workforce are just two factors in Poland’s strong FDI growth, says Paweł Chorąży, Poland’s undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Investment and Economic Development. He spoke to Courtney Fingar…
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Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries threw their weight behind UN sustainable energy goals – along with the “bedrock” of petroleum – at a recent forum. Courtney Fingar reports.
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Greece and Macedonia have signed an accord that formally ends a decades-long dispute surrounding national heritage, borders and names. While this is positive news for Macedonia’s EU accession, and therefore FDI, political tensions have been stoked.…
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Moscow is ready to host key matches in the 2018 World Cup, topping off years of rebuilding its sports and hospitality infrastructure. But much has yet to be done to fully modernise the city, while international sanctions are still biting, as Jacopo D…
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Government calls for resignations after Genoa disaster kills at least 36
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Ian Kershaw’s new book offers an expert and meticulous look at the events that shaped the continent as it embarks on a new chapter in history
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New PM Sánchez has been more accommodating but critics say country is under strain
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Andrew Brunson’s plight has soured relations and plunged Ankara into currency crisis
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Foreign secretary’s activist role contrasts with sidelining of Boris Johnson
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Corporates highlight worry over lira’s fall as president urges boycott of Apple iPhones
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Emergency services fear death toll could rise after section of A10 gives way in Genoa
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Increased public and consumer spending eases concerns over export-led slowdown
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Insead’s outdated ‘welcome week’ reinforced its MBAs’ elite status
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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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Wagenknecht wants her voters backSITTING down with The Economist in her office in Berlin, Sahra Wagenknecht is restless: “Do we think that anyone can just migrate to Germany and have a claim to social welfare?” asks the doyenne of the Left (D…
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WHEN members of America’s Congress passed the Magnitsky Act in 2012 to pursue Kremlin officials responsible for the death of a Russian whistleblower, and even when they extended it to include foreigners involved in corruption and human-rights vi…
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That’s the way the Monet goesA TEENAGER, headphones pinned to his ears, heaves a stuffed backpack across the station hall. A team of adult supervisors, eyes darting back and forth, guides boisterous children in fluorescent yellow jackets throug…
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SOVIET SQUARE in Voronezh no longer looks especially Soviet. Children dart through a dancing fountain. BMX bikers barrel across new tiles. Grassy groves play home to picnicking teens. “It’s practically Spain,” gushes a pensioner.The newly r…
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POLISH banks should be in Polish hands, or so says the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Since PiS came to power in 2015, Polish ownership of banks’ shares has risen, last year surpassing 50% for the first time since 1999. What the government…
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Brunson, the Sultan’s bargaining chipIT WAS all smiles and backslaps between Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the presidents of America and Turkey, at a NATO summit in Brussels last month. And why not? The two men share a taste for demago…
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ONE morning a history teacher wakes up in Kiev to find himself elected president of Ukraine—thanks to a video secretly recorded by a pupil and uploaded to YouTube. It shows the teacher cursing Ukraine’s political class for their lies and its p…
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A VISITOR to Germany this summer will find a country living well. Gentle chit-chat and the clink of glasses murmur from sun-dappled beer gardens. Barges laden with exports chug up the Rhine. Prosperous vacationers travel to lakes and seaside resor…
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ON SOME Swedish trains, passengers carry their e-tickets in their hands—literally. About 3,000 Swedes have opted to insert grain-of-rice-sized microchips beneath the skin between their thumbs and index fingers. The chips, which cost around $150,…
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IN MARCH 2011 a tsunami engulfed the Fukushima power plant in Japan, ultimately causing a meltdown. The worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, it was a devastating blow to an industry that has been in the doldrums since the 1980s. Nuclear plants…
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Turkey sharply raised tariffs on some U.S. imports in response to U.S. sanctions in the latest spat between the two NATO allies that has led to a currency crisis.
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A car crashed into barriers outside the U.K. Houses of Parliament in a suspected terrorist attack, injuring pedestrians and cyclists, just yards away from the site of an attack last year.
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The boycott is part of a wider campaign that has spread from advertising to beauty parlors.
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Germany’s second-quarter output data show the core eurozone economy is holding up even as the risks to growth have risen.
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Turkey’s currency dropped again, rattling other vulnerable emerging markets, as a defiant speech from President Erdogan and policy moves from the nation’s central bank failed to assuage investors’ concerns.
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Europe’s economy has slowed, and seems unlikely to bounce back strongly in what remains of a year that began with high hopes and then hit a series of setbacks.
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Turkey’s central bank Monday announced a set of measures to support the country’s embattled currency and vowed to take all necessary measures to maintain financial stability.
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Tens of thousands of Romanians took to the streets of the capital over the weekend in anticorruption protests, as opposition politicians warned the health of the country’s young democracy was at risk.
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Onetime dissident cozies up to Putin, betting that the post-Cold War era of liberal democracy is doomed. Among the economic and political implications: Hungary is building a giant Russian-designed nuclear power plant that will give Moscow leverage ov…
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The Turkish lira fell sharply to its lowest level ever on worries about Ankara’s economic stability, sending tremors through Europe and emerging markets amid renewed jousting between the country’s leader and President Trump.
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