Pavle Radulović, Montenegro’s minister of sustainable development and tourism, talks to Sebastian Shehadi about how the country’s fast growing tourism industry is opening significant investment opportunities, from ski slopes to beaches.
- 2 days ago, 24 May 19, 6:33am -

Greenfield FDI in the hotels and tourism sector had a bumper year in 2018, with huge increases in project numbers and capital investment, finds The fDi Report 2019.
- 4 days ago, 21 May 19, 11:41am -

The mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, tells Sebastian Shehadi about FDI opportunities in Thessaloniki and Greece as a whole, as well as the importance of business reforms and regional integration for growth.
- 6 days ago, 20 May 19, 5:47am -

The UK still leads but Ireland and Spain are among the European investment destinations that posted big gains in 2018, reports fDi Intelligence.
- 18 days ago, 8 May 19, 6:50am -

UK greenfield FDI has found equilibrium after a rocky few years, but investors are hedging their bets with smaller projects, finds fDi Intelligence
- 18 days ago, 8 May 19, 6:48am -

Étienne Schneider, Luxembourg's deputy prime minister, minister of the economy and minister of health, tells Sebastian Shehadi about the country’s space mining programme, Brexit advantage and personalised medicine.  
- 23 days ago, 3 May 19, 8:44am -

Derek Mackay, Scotland’s cabinet secretary for finance, economy and fair work, tells Sebastian Shehadi about his opposition to Brexit and a possible second referendum on Scottish independence.
- 27 days ago, 29 Apr 19, 10:51am -

Spain has experienced unprecedented inflow of investment in the past few years, but political uncertainty is casting a shadow on the ongoing economic recovery, Felice Meoli reports. 
- 31 days ago, 25 Apr 19, 8:38am -

Greenfield foreign investment into the UK hit a historic high for project numbers in 2018, despite a year of rollercoaster uncertainty surrounding Brexit, figures from the FT’s fDi Markets show. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
- 31 days ago, 24 Apr 19, 11:53am -

FDI project numbers from China into the EU are on a downward trend, but Europe is still a popular destination for Chinese investment.
- 32 days ago, 24 Apr 19, 11:24am -

Eurozone’s third-largest economy may not sit on bank’s board for first time since 1998
- 5 mins ago, 25 May 19, 11:28pm -

Concern grows over Igor Kolomoisky’s influence on the novice president
- 7 mins ago, 25 May 19, 11:26pm -

Central bank fears uncertainty could spark destabilising outflows from mutual funds
- 18 hours ago, 25 May 19, 6:00am -

Rezo’s video voicing German youth anger draws 7m viewers and leaves party struggling to respond
- 1 day ago, 24 May 19, 11:00pm -

EU citizens are voting for candidates in parliament vote
- 1 day ago, 24 May 19, 2:50pm -

Legislators are on trial over their roles in the failed 2017 independence bid
- 1 day ago, 24 May 19, 12:28pm -

- 2 days ago, 24 May 19, 9:54am -

Voters shape the EU political order amid fallout from Austria’s far-right FPÖ scandal
- 2 days ago, 24 May 19, 9:53am -

The momentum behind the far-right group’s success is in question after video sting
- 2 days ago, 24 May 19, 8:07am -

Voters turned out in bigger numbers for European Parliament elections
- 2 days ago, 24 May 19, 7:48am -

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…
- 6 Dec 15, 5:07pm -

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 -

BEAMING FROM ear to ear, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer saunters into the airy surrounds of the Klimahaus museum in Bremerhaven, a port city in north-west Germany, to deliver a campaign speech. Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer, leader of the country’s ruling Chris…
- 3 days ago, 23 May 19, 10:52am -

IT WAS THE biggest so far of a series of weekly demonstrations against the Czech government. On May 21st some 50,000 protesters, more than double last week’s number, gathered on Wenceslas Square, the focal point of the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and…
- 3 days ago, 23 May 19, 10:52am -

THE APPLAUSE in the small auditorium was polite, rather than enthusiastic. A friendly senator in the front row tried to stir electoral fervour, clapping her hands rhythmically over her head as the star guest walked in. But Nathalie Loiseau, Emmanuel…
- 3 days ago, 23 May 19, 10:52am -

ON A FREEZING morning in Vienna in December 2017, Charlemagne heard a tempting case for what might be called “the hug strategy”. He was drinking coffee with an ally of Sebastian Kurz, the young leader of the centre-right Austrian People’s Party…
- 3 days ago, 23 May 19, 10:52am -

- 3 days ago, 23 May 19, 10:52am -

A PLAN BY Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, to launch an alt-right academy in an Italian monastery now risks being scotched by the authorities. Evidence has emerged that a key document used to secure tenancy of the property was…
- 3 days ago, 22 May 19, 3:49pm -

THINK GERMANY and migration, and you probably think refugees. But German employers desperate for workers have their eye on a different sort of immigrant. After a decade of economic growth, unemployment is at its lowest and job vacancies their highest…
- 10 days ago, 16 May 19, 11:13am -

“I COULD BE the sun that lights your dark/And maybe I would lit [sic] your world with just one spark.” The traits are all there: the key change, the dodgy English, the endorsement of peace and being nice. Such is the Eurovision Song Contest. “T…
- 10 days ago, 16 May 19, 11:13am -

DEEP IN THE ground beneath the western Paris business district, the din is bone-jangling. With compact mechanical diggers, workers are excavating rubble from 22-metre (72-feet) shafts. These will take 60 supporting pillars for a vast new train statio…
- 10 days ago, 16 May 19, 11:13am -

VINES LINE the hills south of Sevastopol. Oleg Repin, a local vintner, surveys the land and recalls his days harvesting grapes as a schoolboy. “Living here, sooner or later you come in touch with wine,” he says. One of a handful of boutique Crime…
- 10 days ago, 16 May 19, 11:13am -

Italian politicians have a long record of granting amnesties allowing homes in earthquake-hit areas to be rebuilt. The upstart government was supposed to change that, but it has bowed to local pressure—a sign of how Italian political habits die har…
- 83 days ago, 3 Mar 19, 4:05pm -

Moscow pledged much-needed international support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s embattled government while the U.S. announced a new round of sanctions, as a bitter standoff intensifies.
- 85 days ago, 1 Mar 19, 1:39pm -

The protest movement is bitterly divided over whether to coalesce into a formal organization or keep its antiestablishment roots, as it presses President Macron for change
- 86 days ago, 28 Feb 19, 12:46pm -

Prime Minister Theresa May will allow parliament to vote on delaying the U.K.’s exit from the EU if lawmakers reject her divorce agreement, greatly reducing the possibility of an exit without a deal.
- 88 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 8:12pm -

European Union officials used a first-of-its-kind summit in Egypt this week to press Arab leaders to impose stability and stem migration but played down calls for democracy, reflecting a desire for calm after years of border tumult.
- 88 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 7:28pm -

With weeks to go until Britain is officially scheduled to leave the European Union, politics has finally—slightly—jolted investors out of a prevailing mood of Brexit boredom.
- 88 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 6:39pm -

The most senior Vatican official to ever stand trial on child sex-abuse charges was found guilty of assaulting two choirboys at a church in his former diocese.
- 89 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 8:25am -

The U.K.’s main opposition Labour Party said it would support holding a second Brexit referendum, a policy shift that breathes some life into the prospect of Britons voting again on whether the U.K. should leave the EU.
- 89 days ago, 25 Feb 19, 5:53pm -

The French public has begun to turn against the yellow vest movement, with a new poll for the first time showing majority supporting an end to the protests. The shift in sentiment offers a sign of relief for President Macron.
- 89 days ago, 25 Feb 19, 4:37pm -

A top Russian state television broadcaster held out the possibility of a nuclear exchange with the U.S., boasting that the Kremlin could retaliate with strikes on the Pentagon and Camp David.
- 89 days ago, 25 Feb 19, 12:52pm -