The Closer
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ROUND-UP FT markets round-up: “Stocks on Wall Street jumped while the US dollar fell after the US Federal Reserve outlined a series of measures aimed at keeping borrowing...
US elections: Politics and diplomacy mix like oil and water
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Prior to the September 12th killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American diplomats in Benghazi, Mitt Romney had largely refrained from directly challenging President Barrack Obama on foreign policy. Indeed, as epitomised by Vice Presi...
Solar Energy facts – Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Vs Photovoltaic panels (PV)
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Which solar energy technology will prevail? Concentrated Solar Power or Photovoltaic? In review of the latest developments in renewable, solar energy technologies one can establish that the answer to this question is rather controversial. In search...
Bundesverfassungsgericht: ESM
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Sicherlich, das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat einige Auflagen formuliert. Diese bremsen die Aktion der Europäischen Zentralbank, die den ESM einige Tage zuvor gutgeheißen hatte, aber nicht ab. Dass diese Schwelle überschritten wurde, ist natürlich...
Britain and Europe's industrial challenge gets real 15 years late
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Thursday, 13 September 2012 When Dick Evans and George Simpson told the prime minister some 15 years ago BAe and Marconi, Britain 's two main defence groups, would merge Tony Blair bawled them out: he wanted BAe...
Britain and Europe's industrial challenge gets real 15 years late
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Thursday, 13 September 2012 When Dick Evans and George Simpson told the prime minister some 15 years ago BAe and Marconi, Britain 's two main defence groups, would merge Tony Blair bawled them out: he wanted BAe...
Dutch elections: a pro-Europe or strategic vote?
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Yesterday, Dutch voters cast their votes in the parliamentary elections. After weeks of having the eurosceptic Socialist Party (SP) lead the polls, the Dutch eventually endorsed the centre parties. A pro-Europe vote? Think again.
End of Dimension, Art of Superstate: The Long Euro Struggle to Continue.
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This is the week it all changed. The week when finally the pursuit of a European Superstate was denied. The week when Europe split into those federalists who lost the debate for unconditional Unity of Europe and those who hear citizens protests deman...
The great transformation in the global labour market
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“The global expansion of higher education allows work traditionally reserved for the West to be done more cheaply and just as well in emerging nations, write Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder. The result is that the wages and working conditions of west...
On Politics and Law: the decision of “Karlsruhe”
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There was a lot of EU-related news on Wednesday 12th September 2012: besides the eagerly-awaited decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court (located in Karlsruhe), J. M. Barroso addressed the European Parliament in his “State of Union” s...
‘Sam Bacile’ not Israeli, not Jewish: letters to Guardian and Morning Star
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To the Morning Star: Dear Morning Star, Your article ‘US ambassador killed in wave of Islamic protests’ (M Star September 13) was highly distateful in its gloating tone and attempt to draw a moral equivalence between Christopher Steven...
Too soon to jump to conclusions: the Dutch debate on Europe has only started
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As we said in our pre-election briefing, the Dutch elections saw a shift back to the centre, compared to the early signs of the campaign. Granted, a stronger combined majority for the two main parties - centre-right VVD and centre-left PvdA - than ma...
Why Hair Extensions Are Important To Women
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Do you want to see and experience the feeling wearing the hair extensions? Do you have that admiration on women who are so stunning with their respective long and natural hair? If you are indeed left in awe by these gorgeous looking women, then you c...
US Markets Live transcript 13 Sep 2012
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Markets Live chat transcript for the chat ending at 19:19 on 13 Sep 2012. Participants in this chat were: Cardiff Garcia Joseph Cotterill, FT Claire Jones FT CG Who’s...
FOMC economic projections, 13 Sept 2012
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We’ll be discussing these, the earlier FOMC statement, and of course covering the presser in Markets Live starting in just a few minutes. Click below to open:...
Sins of world’s most competitive economies
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In its latest report on global competitiveness for 2012–2013 the World Economic Forum has covered a record number of 144 economies, which were ranked in 12 pillars of competitiveness encompassing [...]...
ECMI Issue Brief #27 released
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'Self-determination and national minorities: the difficulties of "making" a referendum in Schleswig-Holstein and why to think twice in Kosovo', by Tove H. Malloy, was released today at ECMI's website Continue reading →Source: ECMI InfoChannel @...
Europe’s Modern Titanomachy: How Europe’s future is being shaped by large battles on seemingly small matters (Part B)
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PART B – Mr Draghi’s nod to Euro-loyalists On 8th August 2012 the President of the ECB acknowledged that the Eurozone was at an advanced process of disintegration and, in the same breath, promised to do what it takes to put a stop to it. On Septe...
Europe’s Modern Titanomachy: How Europe’s future is being shaped by large battles on seemingly small matters (Part B)
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PART B – Mr Draghi’s nod to Euro-loyalists On 8th August 2012 the President of the ECB acknowledged that the Eurozone was at an advanced process of disintegration and, in the same breath, promised to do what it takes to put a stop to it. On Septe...
Egyptian president's EU tour dominated by religious row
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The first visit to Europe of the newly elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was dominated by the ongoing violence against Americans in Arab countries, casting a shadow on future relations with the most influential country in the Arab world, repor...
Islam is not to blame for Middle East violence; free speech also applies to Muslims
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We should understand that Islam is not to blame and that collective blame of all Muslims is itself bigotry. Not everyone in Egypt, Yemen and Libya participated in the violence. We must also realize that those anti-Muslim radicals and extremists in th...
Islam is not to blame for Middle East violence; free speech also
applies to Muslims
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Islamophobic radicals and extremists provoke violence, they find it fun. Like the hate merchants that they are, this violence in Yemen, Egypt and the murders in Libya are partly to be blamed on those Islamophobic radicals and extremists who pr...
Islam is not to blame for Middle East violence; free speech also
applies to Muslims
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Islamophobic radicals and extremists provoke violence, they find it fun. Like the hate merchants that they are, this violence in Yemen, Egypt and the murders in Libya are partly to be blamed on those Islamophobic radicals and extremists who pr...
FOMC statement – 13 Sept 2012
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UPDATES:– Well, open-ended QE is what we anticipated, and open-ended QE is what we got — specifically an additional $40bn of monthly agency MBS purchases. And the...
Kosovo: The Challenges Ahead
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By gaining full independence this week, Kosovo reached a political milestone. But major hurdles remain.
B+ for Barroso
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Jose Manuel Barroso is a great speaker indeed. Moreover, he is constantly maturing, just like old wine. Yesterday he did not bother with the usual courtesies and instead simply outlined the major dilemma EU is currently facing: together or separately...
The EZ can’t fake it
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There is no substitute for structural changes. The German constitutional court ruled yesterday against blocking the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the permanent eurozone rescue fund. The court did stipulate that Germany can ratify the ESM so lon...
