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Parliament gives green light to EU-Singapore trade and investment protection deals

February 14, 2019 by European Union Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Parliament endorsed the free trade and investment protection deals between EU and Singapore, serving as blueprint for further cooperation with Southeast Asia. The free trade agreement, to which Parliament gave its consent by 425 votes, 186 votes against and 41 abstentions, will remove virtually […]

Who can compel Wallonia to unlock CETA, the EU-Canada free trade pack?

October 24, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos 1 Comment

No, it wasn’t just the tiny Wallonia region of Belgium and its 3.6 million French speaking inhabitants who blocked CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement). This is an EU-Canada free trade and investment pact that took eight years to the Brussels Commission and the Canadian authorities to draft. It was also the Brexit and the […]

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Are the G20 leaders ready to curb corporate tax-avoidance?

September 8, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Last Monday, the G20 meeting in Hangzhou – the capital of China’s eastern Zhejiang province – the first gathering of the 20 world leaders to be held in the vast country, was not marked by the determination to face up to economic misery and the pitiless wars in Syria, Libya, South Soudan, Yemen, Mali and […]

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Chinese economy to raise speed and help the world grow

January 17, 2013 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Chinese economy is bound to resume in strength in 2013 and attain an enviable 8.5% growth rate, after a relatively slow year in 2012, when it marked its slowest yearly GDP increase for years at 7.5%. OECD insists however that the relative slow-down of […]