Britain and the eurozone: players not spectators | Editorial
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The latest volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries is another reminder of how Europe has dominated and divided British governments for decadesThe latest volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries is another reminder of how Europe has dominated and divided B...
Trouble in Paradise
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Los Cabos doesn’t look like a place for arguments. The long sandy beaches and abundant palm trees of the resort hotels where Mexico is hosting this G-20 meeting would make the perfect setting for a rom-com. But José Manuel Barroso broke up any not...
The Closer
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ROUND-UPNo Greek relief rally for US markets either. The Nasdaq closed up 0.78 per cent at 2,895.33 after a strong showing by Apple stock. The S&P 500 edged up 0.14 per...
The FP Twitterati 100 – including me, it seems…
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I appear to have been listed among prestigious company in Foreign Policy magazine’s Twitterati Top 100. I’m rather flattered, it must be said – not least because Foreign Policy’s been rather good of late. In fact, I have a dra...
Peltz bets on Lazard, future of M&A
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We found out on Monday that Nelson Peltz’s investment firm Trian has a roughly 5.1 per cent chunk of Lazard.Peltz doesn’t dominate the headlines like certain other activist investors,...
Patrick Keiller’s London
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It was a smart move of the Stratford Picture House to screen an avant-garde full-length feature film on London just a javelin’s throw away from the Olympic Stadium, though I was surprised and saddened to find only half a dozen or so other peopl...
Purchasing The Optics That Will Fit One Best
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If you are interested in the world of optics, this article will help you to widen your knowledge on this field and give you the important information about the world of optics. As you can see, this one plays a very important role in your life as it c...
French Greens obtain 18 seats in National Assembly
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Great success to the French Greens in the parliamentary elections of June 17. ‘Europe Ecologie – Les Verts’ obteined 18 seats in National Assembly. They only had 4 seats so far. Thus, the French Greens have now their own independen...
To end this impasse, let us tap Europe's vast wealth | Polly Toynbee
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Faced with a crisis almost as grave as war, social democrats must act in concert to end the toxic policies of austerityAll these words are Greek: crisis, chaos and apocalypse. Or, if the world was cleverer, this could still end in catharsis, and rene...
France’s Hollande: Standing Above His Party’s Legislative Victory
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In the 2012 election of France’s legislative Assembly following the election of Francois Hollande to replace the deeply unpopular Sarkozy, “the Socialist Party won 280 seats and two allied parties won another 34, giving the parliamentary bloc 314...
A CoCo critique, Lloyds edition
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It comes from a hedge fund activist par excellence:That’s a letter (hat-tip to Bloomberg) from Christopher Hohn, managing partner at The Children’s Investment Fund,...
Can Mervyn King save the British economy? | Aditya Chakrabortty
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The Bank of England governor is probably the man most responsible for getting Britain out of recession. So can he do it?"It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked." You heard that Warren Buffett folksiness a lot in 200...
Statues of Wartime Leader Stir Emotions in Hungary
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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he welcomes the dispute ignited by new statues honoring World War II-era leader Miklos Horthy, a one-time Hitler ally.
SOME FIRST THOUGHTS ON THE GREEK ELECTIONS
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The results of last Sunday’s elections in Greece reveal not only the deep fragmentation of the political system in Greece but also a polarized electoral environment within Greek society. Clearly the outcome of the elections signals the willingness...
SOME FIRST THOUGHTS ON THE GREEK ELECTIONS
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by Dr Theofanis Exadaktylos The results of last Sunday’s elections in Greece reveal not only the deep fragmentation of the political system in Greece but also a polarized electoral environment within Greek society. Clearly the outcome of the electi...
What Rio+20 has for the CAP? - by Attila Jambor
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20 years have passed since the Earth Summit was organised in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) will also be held in Rio this week and the apparent question comes what has happened in 20 years tim...
What Rio+20 has for the CAP? - by Attila Jambor
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20 years have passed since the Earth Summit was organised in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) will also be held in Rio this week and the apparent question comes what has happened in 20 years tim...
Does Hungary have a new hero?
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MIKLOS HORTHY, Hungary’s wartime leader, whose birthday is today, is enjoying a controversial renaissance. This weekend the mayor of Csókakő, a picturesque village west of Budapest, inaugurated a bust of the admiral, flanked by far-right supporte...
New Inclusive Wealth Index shows lower growth and future risks for major economies
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"Some large economies show significantly lower growth when natural assets such as forests and water are factored into growth indicators, an index showed on Sunday, a few days before an international sustainability summit starts in Rio de Janeiro.
The See Saw Destruction Of Fiat Wealth Continues As Dollar Rises And European Shares Trade Lower After New Democracy Party Wins Greek Election
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Financial Market report for June 18, 2012 The US Dollar,$USD, UUP, rose, as the Brazilian Real, BZF and the Euro, FXE, traded lower. Banco Santander, STD, National Bank Of Greece, NBG, and European Financials, EUFN, led European Shares, VGK, l...
And We Wonder Why We're Fat: Patents in the American Kitchen (And Claim Limitation Law)
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Articles have been swarming this Kat’s inbox recently about disputes over patents on eggs and dough. Of course, home cooks in the United States are already terrified that they are risking an infringement lawsuit from the owner of the patent o...
The political rational for a Banking Union, a reply to the Bundesbank
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Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, The present state of the euro-area sovereign debt crisis, Speech at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Macro ConferenceAgainst this background the recent proposals of...
Monday miscellany
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There were lots of answers along the rightlines -- and some good responses from Berlin When the long way round is the shortest. In a post last Friday ("Self-confessed online fake-trader: how to deal with him" here) the IPKat crowdsourced an in...
President who?
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EU high representative Baroness Ashton, Europe's foreign affairs voice on the world stage, doesn't know what Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic looks like. Hardly a cardinal sin, you'd say, but as hi-rep she'd maybe not want to leave it to the las...
Kiribati gets so much EU climate aid that it can´t handle it
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The European Union is, in an addition to the seemingly never ending euro crisis, facing other type of problems, also entirely of its own making.During the last few years, the European Union´s climate change "allies" - a number of small Pacific islan...
Where roads aren't - and why it matters
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(Throughout this week we'll be publishing a series of posts on our Green Blog about our activities at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Our full schedule at the conference is available here, and follow our activities a...
The exponential growth in solar consumption
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Gregor MacDonald, energy journalist and renewables guru, flagged up a really interesting piece of data from the latest BP Statistical Review this weekend.It comes in the shape...
