Spain: foreign direct investment on the rise
The growth in foreign direct investment in Spain in 2013 underscores the increased international confidence in an economy that is beginning to recover from a five-year recession, albeit weakly.
Technology and economics
China: bracing itself for financial turbulence
The Chinese financial markets might have to see a few market players stumble and fall in order for the reform process to continue its course on a sustainable path.
US-EU trade negotiations: what is at stake?
The trade negotiations between the EU and the US are motivated more by geopolitical than economic considerations.
Spain’s banking crisis: a light in the tunnel
The Spanish banking system, hard hit by its massive exposure to toxic real estate assets following the collapse of the country’s property market in 2008, is on the mend.
The Geopolitics of the TTIP seen from Beijing
Chinese officials have the suspicion that both the currently negotiated TPP agreement and the TTIP project pushed forward by the Obama Administration have economic but also geopolitical objectives.
Whose Central Bank?
Recently, a further subject for debate has appeared concerning the ECB’s policies which, although less newsworthy than its position on the purchase of public debt in troubled economies, may be even more important for the euro’s future: what to do in view of the fall in the inflation rate.
Child well-being in Spain: the impact of the crisis
Children are the last people responsible for Spain’s crisis in all its many dimensions, but they are suffering the consequences to an equal or greater extent than other collectives.
A New Union of Creditors and Debtors
The Euro Zone (EZ) debt crisis has dramatically changed the nature of European integration. The combination of poor financial regulation and an incomplete design of the euro have led EMU to the brink of collapse, forcing the EZ to move forwards decisively in order to avoid catastrophe.
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