. By Dr. Jim Leontiades Cyprus International Institute of Management After the devastation of WWII, the establishment of the Common Market, later the European Union ushered in an era of hope and
. Now that the dust has settled and people have already forgotten the cocky “nothing wrong here” comments in the aftermath of the Moneyval report, perhaps it’s time to sit back and
. Marcuard's Market update by GaveKal Research A recent report in the People’s Daily that Beijing city will eliminate all large scale coal boilers within the city center by 2015 is another
Although the Solvency II regime has yet to be finalised, Moody's Investor Service has outlined its expectation that solvency ratios will ultimately exhibit a more complex volatility under Solvency II than under
The decline in construction accelerated in March, as the drop in the number of building permits authorised fell by 47% to 428, from 808 in March 2012. The value of these permits
Retail sales volumes collapsed by a provisional 15% compared with the same month of the previous year in March. Volumes in February fell by a revised 12.1%. Bank were closed for nearly
Police raided addresses across Turkey on Tuesday and detained dozens of people after nearly three weeks of anti-government protests, local media reported. State media TRT said 25 people had been detained in
Switzerland's lower house of parliament stalled a bid on Tuesday to protect the country's banks from U.S. criminal charges, refusing to address a bill aimed at ending a long-running probe into rich
British inflation rebounded more than expected in May, data showed on Tuesday, primarily because of rising air fares and in contrast to April's seven-month low. Economists found little significance of the rise,
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he is looking at the world's largest cities, including Shanghai, Moscow, London and New York, as possible locations to build a mile-high skyscraper that would
