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Northern Ireland Shilly-Shally has Experts Fearful of New Trade War

The UK’s disentanglement from the European Union has been a source of instability in international trade, and is now giving rise to a more serious concern: the possibility of a trade war. Unrest has escalated since the UK government tabled

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Colliers: Ireland’s Slow Recovery Contains Some Real Reasons for Optimism

Ireland’s recovery will be slow, as second-wave Covid restrictions are imposed and government employment support is moderated. Despite low volumes of transactions and international travel restrictions in 2020, big-ticket sales happening on and off the market give grounds for some

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Danièle Nouy: Getting Tough with Bankers

It is her job to keep Europe’s banks on the straight and narrow and remind their executives that honesty pays. During her four years as chairperson of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) supervisory board, Danièle Nouy made few friends in

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Book Review by Kenneth Rogoff: Crash Time

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Crashed, by the noted Columbia University historian Adam Tooze, offers a sweeping history of the global financial crisis up

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Border Trouble

Post-Brexit, the UK will remain part of the EU customs union and quite possibly of its single market as well. That is the gist of the tentative agreement reached on December 08 in Brussels between both parties. The UK’s continued

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CFI.co Meets the Group CEO of KBC: Johan Thijs

KBC Group barrelled ahead in the wake of the financial crisis and hasn’t looked back since. What explains your remarkable success as a bank and a creator of shareholder value? There are a multitude of reasons. One of the main

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Preference Pass: Sunny Travel Savings Franchise

Avid world travelers may have experienced the hopelessness of arriving in a foreign land with little information and knowledge. At best the wary traveler ends up paying a premium for sub-par goods and services. By the time the ins and

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Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB): A Mostly Unseen Hand

In late-December, President Werner Hoyer of the European Investment Bank shared his experiences and insights with CFI.co.  He leads an institution more than twice as large as the World Bank, yet remains virtually unknown outside financial circles. Werner Hoyer (66)

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Michel Barnier

His job requires the patience of a saint – and an ability to repeat the message ad nauseam. Michel Barnier (66), the European Union’s chief negotiator in charge of ushering the UK out of the bloc as per its own

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IMF: Ireland Approaching Best Practice in Fiscal Reporting & Forecasting

The IMF published on July 16th a Fiscal Transparency Assessment (FTA) report for Ireland, which was carried out at the request of the Irish Government by a Fiscal Affairs Department team that visited Dublin in March 2013. This report constitutes

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