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Illegal fishing: EU lifts Taiwan’s yellow card following reforms

June 28, 2019 by European Union Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The EU recognises Taiwan’s reforms put in place during the last three and a half years to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU).Today the European Commission decided to lift the yellow card acknowledging the progress made by Taiwan and the major upgrade of […]

Trump’s America divides the world, bullies China and Europe

June 3, 2019 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The American administration in concerted action at the end of last week told everybody, how they want the world to function, singling out foes and friends. Leading members of the Trump executives attacked China, Germany and the EU. Washington, probably, senses that those global entities are able to withstand and effectively counter the wider American […]

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Will Qualcomm avoid Broadcom’s hostile takeover post the 1 bn euro EU antitrust fine?

January 31, 2018 by Chris Anyfantis 1 Comment

The EU antitrust fine to Qualcomm comes as the latter attempts to avoid the 105 billion dollar hostile takeover by competitor Broadcom which keeps on biding higher and higher. Qualcomm seems to be in serious pressure as several fines have been imposed on the company for market dominance abuse and there are plenty of cases […]

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Trump to run America to the tune of his business affairs

December 15, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

In the short period after the 8 November election that brought him to the Oval Office of the White House for the next four years, President – elect Donald Trump has more or less outlined the policy mix he is going to implement as from 20 January. His choices for key government positions and his […]