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. 
- 37 days ago, 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.
- 37 days ago, 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.
- 37 days ago, 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.
- 37 days ago, 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.
- 37 days ago, 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.
- 37 days ago, 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.
- 37 days ago, 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.
- 42 days ago, 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.
- 42 days ago, 20 Feb 20, 6:25am -

After a sharp drop in 2012, FDI into Serbia has flowed back, with improvements in employment and public debt accompanying a rise in GDP. This new stability has drawn investment from the EU, the US and China.
- 49 days ago, 13 Feb 20, 11:41am -

Alliance foreign ministers’ talk on Thursday will focus on coronavirus hazards and response
- 14 mins ago, 2 Apr 20, 2:01am -

Fissures are re-emerging while Pedro Sánchez’s government struggles to contain crisis
- 2 hours ago, 2 Apr 20, 12:00am -

Resource-rich nation forced to reassess view that it is different from others
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- 8 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:42pm -

Hungarian PM ramps up feud with Donald Tusk while group of EU nations expresses concern for rule of law
- 8 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:09pm -

Finance minister calls for time-limited collective response to economic impact of crisis
- 10 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 4:43pm -

Other European nations are struggling to match Berlin’s focus on finding out who has Covid-19 
- 11 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 2:49pm -

Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof so far fails to tap emergency liquidity lines
- 12 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 1:52pm -

Sportswear maker apologises but warns it cannot bear virus lockdown for long   
- 14 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 12:24pm -

Initial weeks’ figures reach same scale of unemployment as in 2007 to 2009
- 14 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 12:03pm -

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 -

VLADIMIR PUTIN is no doubt feeling smug. The Russian economy ought to be in crisis, but it is not. Covid-19 is causing a global meltdown. The price of oil has slumped below $30 a barrel, half what it was two months ago. Oil and gas traditionally acco…
- 7 days ago, 26 Mar 20, 7:03am -

IT WAS SHAPING up to be a bumper year for the Hotel Esplanade in Dortmund. On February 13th its owners threw a big party to celebrate a €2.5m ($2.7m) extension, and to mark the moment that Katja Kortmann took over as manager from her retiring fathe…
- 7 days ago, 26 Mar 20, 6:33am -

IN MOST LANGUAGES, if someone said you had cancer, it would be a diagnosis. In Dutch, it is more likely to be an insult. Kankerlijer (“cancer-sufferer”) is one of a long list of Dutch profanities and expletives derived from diseases. An undesirab…
- 7 days ago, 26 Mar 20, 6:33am -

Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see our coronavirus hubW…
- 7 days ago, 26 Mar 20, 6:03am -

Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see our coronavirus hubA…
- 7 days ago, 26 Mar 20, 6:03am -

TO EXPLAIN A complicated story, it helps to have a fable. Those who watched the last euro-zone crisis often turned to Aesop’s story of the ant, who worked hard all summer ahead of the coming winter, and the grasshopper, who lazed about during warm…
- 7 days ago, 26 Mar 20, 5:03am -

- 14 days ago, 19 Mar 20, 11:48am -

THE WORLD might be heading into its biggest crisis since the second world war, Russians may be sweeping the shelves of supermarkets clean, but Vladimir Putin knows his priorities. On March 17th he decreed that his country must hold an “all-people v…
- 14 days ago, 19 Mar 20, 11:48am -

AN EERIE SILENCE descended on the French capital at noon on March 17th. In a city famed for its café culture and street life, policemen with megaphones were on patrol, checking papers and ordering those still out without permission to go back indoor…
- 14 days ago, 19 Mar 20, 11:48am -

ALEXANDER THE GREAT is off to the dump. If the authorities in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, have their way, statues and monuments glorifying him, his father Philip II and other ancient, mythical and more modern Macedonians around the city w…
- 14 days ago, 19 Mar 20, 11:48am -

Tests that show immunity are crucial to beating Covid-19.
- 7 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 7:00pm -

The $50 billion in aid for airlines comes with a real long-term danger.
- 7 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:57pm -

Last month small businesses were hiring and giving out raises.
- 7 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:53pm -

The Justice IG finds even more abuses of wiretap applications.
- 7 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:51pm -

Irresponsible policy from the Federal Reserve made the coronavirus crisis worse than it had to be.
- 8 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:38pm -

Scary projections based on faulty data can put policy makers under pressure to adopt draconian measures.
- 8 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:34pm -

Instead of leading, he panders to Bernie Sanders and criticizes President Trump.
- 8 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:33pm -

China suppressed Li Wenliang. Trump should honor him.
- 8 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:32pm -

Keep landlords and tenants together with a one-page lease addendum.
- 8 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:30pm -

I have only one lung, and even one day of physical inactivity impairs my ability to breathe.
- 8 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:29pm -