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Joshua Wong: Teenager vs. Superpower
The sharp end of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, student activist Joshua Wong is getting up close and personal with the Chinese powers-that-be who are in no mood to permit or tolerate political dissent. He may be just 21
Read MoreYassine Belattar: Clown of the Republic
The Paris king of comedy likes to make people wince – either in agony or in shock. His jokes and comments frequently unleash a firestorm on social media where the holier-than-thou brigade rules and expresses its faux-indignation in no uncertain
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US Trade Policy: End of the Liberal World Order
The established wisdom, first formulated and then imposed by the United States, says that trade encourages nations to maintain peace. In the decades following the end of World War 2, the US erected a new world order based on the
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Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve: The End of Easy Money
It had to happen and it just did. The untold joys of expansive monetary policy as the engine of growth in lean times are, of course, always of a temporary nature. As the global economy emerges with a vengeance from
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Ursula von der Leyen: Close Cooperation
The first woman to preside over Germany’s Ministry of Defence, Ursula von der Leyen was appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel to re-establish order at the demoralised department. Mrs Von der Leyen is one of the longest-serving members of the German
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EY: Argentina – Aspects of the Labour & Social Security Reform
A labour and social security reform bill has been recently sent to the Argentine Congress. In general, proposed amendments represent material changes to current regulations and introduce new concepts. Although the government has the support of the main labour unions,
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UNCDF: Bringing New Parties to the Table – Engaging the Private Sector to Drive Investment into Least Developed Countries
It is widely understood that the world is falling far short of the funding flows required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in the world’s 47 poorest countries, known as Least Developed Countries. The financing gap is estimated at
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Jean-Claude Juncker: Gives as Good as He Gets
He is the man eurosceptics, and quite a few others, love to hate – the embodiment of all that is wrong with the European Union and the face of the “faceless bureaucrats” who rule from Brussels. Jean-Claude Juncker (62), a
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SIACI Saint Honore’s Pierre Donnersberg: Vying for a Top Spot in the Global Insurance Market
SIACI Saint Honore Group is one of the leading providers of brokerage and consulting services in the French insurance market, supporting large and mid-cap companies in the management of their property and personal insurance risks in France and around the
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EY Germany: Champion in Professional Services
When a company with over 10,000 employees is soon celebrating its 100th birthday, it doesn’t really run the risk of being considered hip and unconventional. And if assurance services play a major role on top of that, well then the
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