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The EU sides with China against the US; but has Germany capitulated to America?

July 23, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos 3 Comments

If billions of EU penalties on American icon companies and U.S. super tariffs on European cars are strong and aggressive trade weapons, then yes the EU and the U.S. are at all out economic war. As in all wars, the difficult or even impossible thing is to predict its end. Unavoidably, there will be victims […]

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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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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, […]

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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 […]

Filed Under: Business, Digital Tagged With: competition, CONTENTGUARD JV, digital market platforms, ECIS, European Court of Justice, exploitation of dominant position, globalisation, ICT, Internet, Microsoft, oligopolistic, OMNIS, SKYPE, TIME WARNER, UPC, YAHOO