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EU-US ties to break over Iran; Democrats’ electoral win may not change it

November 8, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

After last Tuesday’s midterm elections in the United States, the Republicans of President Donald Trump lost the House of Representatives to the Democratic Party. The vote was turned out into a referendum for the Trump administration, and the GOP lost the full control of the two chamber Congress. From now on, the White House will […]

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America writes-off Iran, blocks Europe’s Tehran talks

May 24, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

While the European Union and more so Germany have being relentlessly working to save the nuclear non-proliferation deal with Iran, last Monday the new US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, shattered any opening for negotiations with Tehran. Until Pompeo dropped his bombshell, the EU was discussing a new pact with Iran, on the basis of […]

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ECB to people: Not responsible if you lose money on Bitcoin, your governments are

February 15, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Last Tuesday, 13 February Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank in the most solemn terms said regulating or even banning Bitcoin “it’s not the ECB’s responsibility to do that”. However, he didn’t refrain from eagerly pointing out the very risky and misty nature of the digital ‘monies’. So, when asked again if […]

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IMF – World Bank meetings: US – Germany clash instituted, anti-globalization prospects visualized

October 10, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

This year’s annual meetings of the IMF – World Bank Group in Washington D.C., which kicked off on Thursday 6 October, turned out to be an all out financial war of words between the United States and Germany. In the middle of it stands the battered Deutsche Bank. For a start, there was a confrontation […]

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Charlie’s tragedy energized deeper feelings amongst Europeans; back to basics?

January 15, 2015 by George Pepper 1 Comment

With a superfluity of hypocrisy and a thirst for positive media exposure the European political leaders marched last Sunday in the streets of Paris, to tell the world ‘Je suis Charlie’. It’s most uncertain if anyone of them knew what the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ was before the atrocity in the premises of the journal. Bernard Holtrop, […]

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