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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 […]

Filed Under: Economy, EUGlobe, Policy, USA, World Tagged With: American Department of Justice, American Secretary of Treasury, Americans, anti-globalization, banks, Berlin, Brexit, Britain, Christine Lagarde, crisis, Deutsche Bank, euro area, European banks, Europeans, Eurozone, financial, France, German Finance Minister, Germany, global economy, globalisation, Greece, Greek debt, IMF, International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Jack Lew, Paris, the fine of $14bn, US, Washington, Washington D.C., Wolfgang Schäuble, World Bank Group

Why European manufacturing SMEs in the South face fatal dangers

September 27, 2013 by George Pepper Leave a Comment

During this week in Brussels there was a lot of talk about Europe’s industrial competitiveness. The Competitiveness Council, part of the Council of the European Union, is currently meeting in Brussels, on September 26-27, for the first time formally under the Lithuanian Presidency. This Council brings together the EU ministers responsible for the single market, […]

Filed Under: Policy Tagged With: Commission, Competitiveness Council, deindustrialisation, Employment, EU, globalisation, industry, manufacturing, SMEs, Tajani

Why Microsoft is a regular to Almunia’s

December 16, 2012 by George Pepper Leave a Comment

In the years of globalisation, free movements of capital, goods and to a lesser degree of labour, have raised exponentially citizen’s wellbeing in our western economic volume and not only. This achievement has to be totally credited, to the opening of national markets to international competition. At the same time though globalisation has created new opportunities […]

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On 21 March US President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum targeting China and demanding “a true reciprocal trade agreement”. (Official White House, photo by Shealah Craighead).

Press conference by Mariya Gabriel, Member of the EC, and Madeleine de Cock Buning, Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on fake news and online disinformation Date: 12/03/2018 Location: Brussels – EC/Berlaymont © European Union , 2018. Source: EC – Audiovisual Service Photo: Lukasz Kobus

Trilateral meeting between Cecilia Malmström, Member of the European Commission in charge of Trade, Hiroshige Seko, Japanese Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry (on the right) and Robert Lighthizer, US Trade Representative (on the left). Date: 10/03/2018. Location: Brussels- EC/Berlaymont. © European Union, 2018 / Source: EC- Audiovisual Service/Photo: Mauro Bottaro.

Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald D. Vitiello visits the Border Wall Construction Site near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry as eight different prototypes of the Border Wall were unveiled at the U.S. border with Mexico. October 26 2017. Photos Courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Taken by Yesica Uvina

Mr Fulai Sheng, UN Environment senior economist (UN Environment, 2018)

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (first from right), Donald Tusk, President of the European Council (second from right), Boiko Borissov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (second from left) and Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, at the EU-Turkey Leaders events in Varna, Bulgaria. Date: 26/03/2018. © European Union, 2018 / Source: EC – Audiovisual Service.

Visit of David Davis, British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, to the EC Date: 19/03/2018. Location: Brussels – EC/Berlaymont. © European Union , 2018. Source: EC – Audiovisual Service. Photo: Mauro Bottaro.

Luis Alvarado Martinez is the President of the European Youth Forum (EYF, 2018)

Press conference by Margrethe Vestager, Member of the European Commission in charge of Competition about maritime car carriers cartel. Date: 21/02/2018. Location: Brussels – EC/Berlaymont. © European Union, 2018 / Source: EC – Audiovisual Service / Photo: Jennifer Jacquemart.

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