In an effort to expand its global popularity, the NFL now plays a number of games every year in London. While the move is widely deemed a success when it comes to attendance numbers, what is less heralded but of huge value is the opportunity it prese…
- 27 days ago, 30 Jun 17, 10:20am -

As global business takes stock of Brexit and headline-grabbing US policy decisions, working visas are ripe for reform. Some countries are already benefiting, as Erika Morphy reports.
- 42 days ago, 15 Jun 17, 7:01am -

A handful of arbitration cases against Spain regarding its renewable energy policies have been settled, but many more are to come in what will prove a costly process for the country, win or lose, writes Luke Peterson.
- 42 days ago, 15 Jun 17, 7:01am -

A leading Italian think tank has named Malta as one of the 'winners' of globalisation. Emanuele Schibotto looks at the factors behind this, including the country's increasingly diversified economy, the reinvention of its tourism offering, and the wel…
- 42 days ago, 15 Jun 17, 7:01am -

Portugal’s minister of economy, Manuel Caldeira Cabral, tells Natasha Turak how increases in exports and tourism have driven the country’s growth, enabling it to reduce its fiscal deficit and unemployment levels, while its open approach has preve…
- 42 days ago, 15 Jun 17, 7:01am -

Grzegorz Benedykcinski, the mayor of Grodzisk Mazowiecki, which won best small Polish city in fDi’s Polish Cities of the Future 2017/18 ranking, explains the secrets behind its success, including a favourable location, an educated workforce and an…
- 42 days ago, 15 Jun 17, 7:01am -

Suren Karayan, Armenia’s minister of economic development and investments, explains how the country plans to exploit its network of east-west connections to enhance its FDI attractiveness. 
- 42 days ago, 15 Jun 17, 7:01am -

UK dependencies such as the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar are already feeling the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum. So far, however, all are reporting greater interest from investors since last J…
- 42 days ago, 15 Jun 17, 7:00am -

Although Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU in the 2016 UK referendum, the British overseas territory pragmatically prepared in advance for a Brexit outcome, says chief minister Fabian Picardo. He tells Wendy Atkins why he is optimist…
- 42 days ago, 15 Jun 17, 7:00am -

Portugal’s long-term educational policies are paying dividends, with a high proportion of young people speaking more than one language and even sporting a master's degree. This in turn is attracting international companies and creating conditions t…
- 42 days ago, 15 Jun 17, 7:00am -

A united front between the US and Europe is vital to keep pressure on Moscow
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jul 17, 8:12am -

Rise of the anti-immigration right is causing tremors on the centre ground
- 6 hours ago, 27 Jul 17, 6:33am -

Stefan Löfven drops two ministers implicated in IT outsourcing scandal
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Morawiecki insists that judiciary is inefficient and has not purged after communism
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Future of former Georgian president in doubt after he falls out with pro-western leader
- 19 hours ago, 26 Jul 17, 5:31pm -

US private equity group is third-largest shareholder in the German lender
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Alarm among America’s old allies makes prospect of unified action against Moscow more complex
- 24 hours ago, 26 Jul 17, 1:07pm -

Rome considers deployment to combat gangs cashing in on human traffic to Europe
- 1 day ago, 26 Jul 17, 12:07pm -

Athens buoyed by brighter outlook but analysts sound note of caution
- 1 day ago, 26 Jul 17, 11:45am -

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 -

FRENCH reformists have promised for decades to streamline the country’s 3,000-page labour code, only to be stymied by the country’s mighty trade unions. Emmanuel Macron has vowed to break the jinx, and is likely to face the same sort of resist…
- 2 hours ago, 27 Jul 17, 10:47am -

On trial for telling the truthTHRONGS of relatives and lawyers pushed their way past a metal barrier manned by security guards, fighting for a spot in the crowded courtroom. The area where the accused sat was crowded, too. The 17 journalists whos…
- 2 hours ago, 27 Jul 17, 10:47am -

IN THE mid-1990s, as the European Union began expanding eastwards, its politicians faced a tricky question. To join the bloc, countries had to commit to democratic standards, human rights and the rule of law. The EU had a lot of leverage over aspi…
- 2 hours ago, 27 Jul 17, 10:47am -

“HOW hard it is to escape from places,” Katherine Mansfield, an author from New Zealand, once wrote to a friend. She had a point, but long paid holidays and low-cost airlines do help. To judge by the tumbleweed blowing through the offices and…
- 2 hours ago, 27 Jul 17, 10:47am -

FROM the mountain resort of Zakopane in the south to the Hel peninsula in the north, tens of thousands of Poles took to the streets last week in protest against proposed reforms that would have sacked all of the members of the Supreme Court and po…
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- 7 days ago, 20 Jul 17, 10:44am -

THE encampment has no name, no water, no electricity and no right to be where it is: an abandoned bus park in a desolate stretch of scrub, east of the Tiburtina railway station in Rome. Most of the Africans dotted across the asphalt in tents or sp…
- 7 days ago, 20 Jul 17, 10:44am -

FOR a president usually eager to get the drama of politics right, Emmanuel Macron’s provocation of an open confrontation with his armed forces this month was a notable stumble. On July 14th he celebrated Bastille Day, riding in an open-top milit…
- 7 days ago, 20 Jul 17, 10:44am -

LIFE comes at you fast in the European Union. Barely a year ago, with the wounds from the refugee crisis still gaping, Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, could be heard warning that a British vote to quit the EU threatened to brin…
- 7 days ago, 20 Jul 17, 10:44am -

- 7 days ago, 20 Jul 17, 6:03am -

After a year of slights, barbs and misunderstandings, Germany and Turkey are girding for a showdown that could rattle the European Union, alter the fight on terrorism and escalate the refugee crisis.
- 9 mins ago, 27 Jul 17, 12:28pm -

Emmanuel Macron’s government said it would temporarily nationalize the STX France shipyard to stop Italian company Fincantieri taking majority control.
- 15 mins ago, 27 Jul 17, 12:22pm -

The European Union warned it could still pursue unprecedented sanctions against Poland, trying to pressure the government as both sides weigh their next moves after the president vetoed legislation to replace the entire Supreme Court.
- 7 hours ago, 27 Jul 17, 5:40am -

Five years ago, ECB chief Mario Draghi gave a speech that ushered in the beginning of the end of the continent’s sovereign-debt crisis. But five years later, the economic performances of the bloc’s members are hugely varied.
- 15 hours ago, 26 Jul 17, 9:43pm -

The European Union stands ready to act “within days” if its concerns about the U.S. bill to impose new sanctions on Russia aren’t addressed, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said.
- 19 hours ago, 26 Jul 17, 5:18pm -

Charlie Gard’s parents agreed to take their gravely ill baby to a hospice to die, as a judge granted them a chance to try to find a medical team who would give them more time to spend with him there in his final days.
- 22 hours ago, 26 Jul 17, 2:32pm -

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy testified in court on Wednesday as a witness in a graft trial and said he had no knowledge of the alleged illegal financing scheme that helped fund his Popular Party.
- 1 day ago, 26 Jul 17, 10:38am -

President Donald Trump said his administration was negotiating “to do a major trade deal” with the U.K., aiming to have it kick in soon after Britain completes its exit from the European Union in early 2019.
- 1 day ago, 26 Jul 17, 9:14am -

U.K. economic growth remained subdued in the second quarter, as a modest revival in consumer spending offset shrinking industrial production, a sign that a hoped-for shift toward export-led growth remains elusive.
- 1 day ago, 26 Jul 17, 9:07am -

Greece got solid demand Tuesday for its first bond issuance in three years, in what the government sees as the first of several moves that will enable the debt-ridden country to wean itself from new bailouts.
- 1 day ago, 26 Jul 17, 7:41am -