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 -

Proposal means French waste and water group is ‘willing to open a dialogue’ with rival
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Activist had just arrived from Germany where he had recovered from assassination attempt
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Armin Laschet’s win signals continuity but losing a longtime leader will weaken the party
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Yield curve control makes monetary policy more effective
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High-frequency data indicators point to worsening economic hit as social restrictions bite
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Landmark regulations will force asset managers to up their game on ESG but data gaps may hinder progress
- 17 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 6:00am -

Last-minute intervention by Quebec’s economy minister fails to win round French government
- 1 day ago, 16 Jan 21, 2:13pm -

Victory keeps party on a centrist course and puts the Rhinelander in pole position to succeed Angela Merkel
- 2 days ago, 16 Jan 21, 11:08am -

Important questions remain about how the party will fight September’s Bundestag elections
- 2 days ago, 16 Jan 21, 10:54am -

Restrictions came too late to avert surge that has put massive strain on hospitals
- 2 days ago, 16 Jan 21, 10:00am -

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.
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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…
- 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 -

ON JANUARY 16TH 1,001 parliamentarians, party functionaries and small-town mayors will open their laptops, log into a virtual congress of Germany’s ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and elect their party’s new leader. The winne…
- 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 10:51am -

WHEN GROWING up in La Courneuve, on the unfashionable fringes of Paris, Rokhaya Diallo says she “didn’t feel black”. The daughter of parents from Senegal and the Gambia, she recalls that “being black was just not an issue, because there were…
- 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 10:51am -

SEBNEM KORUR FINCANCI, a forensic physician, and many other doctors had long insisted there was something dodgy about Turkey’s covid-19 figures. Excess deaths across the country far surpassed officially reported deaths from the virus. Case numbers…
- 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 10:51am -

MOST PEOPLE sniggered when Donald Trump proposed buying Greenland in 2019, but he had a point. The world’s biggest island has a rich helping of rare-earth minerals, and the superpowers want them.These 17 elements, ranging from scandium to lutetium…
- 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 10:51am -

IT IS EASY to be optimistic about the future of Europe when running through a dystopian hellscape, machinegunning police and decapitating pedestrians with a samurai sword. Such opportunities come thanks to “Cyberpunk 2077”, a Polish video game, l…
- 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 10:51am -

POLITICALLY, COVID-19 has been good for Mark Rutte, the Netherlands’ prime minister. Polls show his party’s support has risen from about 15% to 25% since March. Not so for his sovereign, King Willem-Alexander. In April 76% of Dutch said they trus…
- 11 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 11:00am -

A YEAR AGO Pedro Sánchez embarked on a political experiment. After two indecisive elections, he swallowed his previous qualms and formed Spain’s first coalition government since the 1930s, between his Socialists and Podemos, a hard-left party. Wit…
- 11 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 11:00am -

GIBRALTAR IS “a perfect synthesis of Britishness and the Mediterranean way of life”, boasts Fabian Picardo, its chief minister. It has red telephone boxes and a Marks & Spencer, but its 34,000 people often lapse into Llanito, a kind of Spanglish,…
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GREECE RANKS at or near the bottom of the EU class on digitisation, whether you measure it by high-speed internet connections, ownership of laptops and tablets, or online shopping. The government’s digital-transformation “bible”, a scheme to ca…
- 11 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 11:00am -

TWO YEARS ago at the Munich Security Conference, an annual gabfest for buffs of geopolitics, Vice-President Mike Pence delivered to his largely European audience a stinging address, full of rebukes and America First swagger. On the same stage a few h…
- 11 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 11:00am -

An expiring arms-control deal is a chance to address hypersonics and make China come to the table.
- 7 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 4:48pm -

Responsible leaders made his election possible by creating a vacuum that a demagogue could fill.
- 7 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 4:37pm -

He doubles Obama’s 2009 plan even as the economy is poised to take off in 2021.
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 6:48pm -

Illinois gets a new House speaker, but the system of public-union dominance survives.
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 6:44pm -

She did much good for school choice and due process on campus.
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 6:42pm -

A Trump commission tries to correct the historical record.
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 6:41pm -

VOA aired a ‘news’ report in Pakistan that was no more than a repackaged Biden campaign ad.
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 5:11pm -

For centuries black Americans debated how to overcome racism—but they always emphasized human agency and individual responsibility.
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 5:11pm -

Beijing likes the story that Covid began elsewhere but at least it could tell us about the virus in China today.
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 5:08pm -

Who voted for this?
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 2:40pm -