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Shale Gas: “New North Sea” or Trojan Horse?
Britain is greedy for some industry, while Germany is afraid of losing its competitive advantage; Europe is on the verge of plunging blindly into hydraulic fracturing, the shining solution which could...
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“Political disaster” if UK leaves human rights law
Conservative politicians are bringing the UK into disrepute with an attitude towards the EU’s human rights law which could spell a “political disaster.” This was the opinion expressed by the EU’s most...
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The Nations In Between
Ex-USSR states are still getting caught between Brussels and the Kremlin. Twenty years on from the breaking up of the Soviet Union, political and economic pressures are forcing ex-bloc members to...
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No pain, no gain – Ukraine’s economic conundrum
President of IMF Christine Lagarde Ukraine just can’t seem to catch a break these days. With the annexation of Crimea by it’s self-proclaimed motherland and a potential military conflict looming on...
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Greece’s economic comeback is marred by uncertainties
Petros Christodoulou, a Greek investment banker, once quipped “most of the bad news about America’s subprime-mortgage market will be out by the end of August.” It was the beginning of August 2007,...
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Ukraine’s Wile E. Coyote moment
It’s 2015 and Ukraine has much in common with the famous cartoon from the 1950s. Like the Wile E. Coyote, its economy ran over the hill and is now suspended mid-air, treading on air. Inflation is...
View ArticleEuropean economy: German headwinds prevent the recovery
“Tailwinds support the recovery”, proudly stated the European Commission’s Spring 2015 Economic Forecast. Even without reading the full report, one gains a general sense of the predictions for each...
View ArticleTackling the EU’s anaemic growth
Faced with yet another woefully pitiful set of growth figures, the European Central Bank (ECB) this week said it expects interest rates to remain at their record lows for a long time to come. Leaving...
View ArticleThe ‘Club Med’ is held back by political incompetence
In a bid to shore up Greece’s anti-austerity position, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hosted the leaders of France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Malta and Cyprus to Athens over the weekend to devise a growth...
View ArticleFrance: A new hope?
Restoring French economic ‘joie de vivre’ was a cornerstone of Emmanuel Macron’s Presidential bid, but Macron’s recent appointment of Edouard Phillippe as France’s Prime Minister has left many...
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