... among today’s world leaders a person more charming, wise, experienced, knowledgeable and at the same time so easy-going and ironic. He is the father of the Luxembourg economic miracle. He turned the country with a lop-sided declining steel-making economy into a leading financial centre of the world with the highest per capita income in the European Union. Luxembourg today has the highest AAA credit rating. The only other EU country that has such a rating is Germany.
No wonder I read with some ...
In late June 2016, less than a year since the escalation of the Russia–Turkey conflict, Ankara and Moscow embarked upon a course towards rapprochement. Over the past two months, the leaders of Russia and Turkey have held three meetings, with the latest taking place on October 10, 2016. The results of the Istanbul meeting boil down to the following points: the restoration of Russia’s trade and economic cooperation with Turkey is not going quite as fast as Turkey had hoped; energy remains...
... the Arab region encourages private entrepreneurship by fully removing capital export restrictions and eliminating customs duties on the import of equipment and raw materials. Bahrain’s business environment is characterized by the openness of its economy, high international rankings in terms of economic freedom, and financial development
indices
. Will the Russian side manage to see the “pearl” of the Arab world and fully unlock the potential of their bilateral commercial and economic ...
... shared colonial past. On the other hand, the LAC countries demonstrate significant variety regarding their economic development and the countries’ positions in the world.
Latin America’s Placein Global Trade
The role of LAC in the global economy has evolved greatly over the past few decades. For a long time, the region, which accounts for
15 per cent of the earth’s land mass and is home to 9 per cent of the global population,
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specialized in supplying raw materials and labour-intensive ...
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program has been implemented successfully for a year now. Nonetheless, there are still a number of obstacles barring the path to its complete implementation, and even a fully enforced JSCPOA does not guarantee the stability of Tehran’s nuclear program.
On July 14, 2015, after more than 10 years of negotiations, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program was finally
concluded
. Iran agreed to significantly...
... next month we are opening our office in Saint Petersburg – our network is growing. The strategy for ICBC group in the Russian market is very clear. We consider Russia our strategic important market and are planning to invest more into Russian economy.
Rashid Alimov:
Kill both Symptoms and the Root of the Evil
What measures should be taken to bring Russia-China relations to the next level?
The first thing we should work on is the improvement of communication and mutual understanding. If we ...
... of the last two sections of the memorandum in question.
Russian Foreign Policy Achievements
Russia’s foreign policy in the past decade was successful by and large and quite masterful at times. It largely matched the world challenges. A stagnant economy was the weak link. Foreign policy has compensated for that weakness so far. But this resource is now close to exhaustion. The country has regained its military potential at a qualitatively new level and at still tolerable costs. The expansion ...
... your mind, have these sanctions been effective in any way? And what can be done today to break the deadlock and re-establish sound economic relations between EU countries and Russia?
A.K.:
The sanctions did have a serious negative impact on the Russian economy. However, they failed to change the Russian position in Ukraine or to erode the popularity of President Putin inside Russia. Today the position of the European Union is that the lifting of sanctions depends on the full implementation of the Minsk ...
... developing Iran’s ties with the outside world, first welcoming the President of the People’s Republic of China on his official visit to Tehran and then setting off on a European tour himself. Now free from the burden of the sanctions, Iran, whose economy almost collapsed entirely in 2012, does not want to lose any more time and is determined to expand cooperation with its international partners.
January 16, 2016 will go down as a key date in the modern history of Iran – the day that the ...
A fairly alarming picture of the future, replete with conflicts
Of course, the 100 years indicated in the title of the project is merely a poetic metaphor. In reality, we can only speak with some degree of certainty about two far closer forecasting horizons.
One is five or ten years away.
Let us assume that very soon somebody will win and somebody will lose the civil wars raging in the Middle East. Let us further assume that the conflicts that are tearing this world apart will be settled, or at...
