. By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary Recent weeks of protests in Thailand are the culmination of a seven-year power struggle centred on the self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Thailand is no stranger to protests, but all the indicators suggest that the current demonstrations are different to those in the past, both politically
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. By Rakis Christoforou – BBA, CPA/ABV/CFF, MCSI, CGMA, ACFE As the Cyprus economy is yet to improve, there are thousands of Cypriots leading lives of quiet desperation: without jobs, without resources, without hope. Who is to blame? Was it simply a result of negligence, of the kind of inordinate risk-taking commonly called as a
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The workshop was organised under the auspices of the Ministry of Finance of Cyprus and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany On Tuesday, 14th of January, 2013, at the Ministry of Finance , SAP Cyprus presented a half day workshop on the subject ‘’Cyprus Recovery & IT’s role in its Enablement – an
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The European Union's statistics office will revise upwards the EU's annual gross domestic product figures by 2.4 percentage points when it switches to a new accounting standard in September, the European Commission said on Thursday (16 January). The change will affect all past GDP figures and future data series, the EU's statistics agency Eurostat said.
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Energy developments in Cyprus have raised intense interest by the UK government and British companies, both in meetings within the schedule of President Anastasiades and in the bilateral contacts that Cypriot ministers have had in London, Cypriot Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis has said. During his meetings as part of the President’s visit to London, Lakkotrypis
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Larnaca, on the southern coast of Cyprus, is among the top ten cities of Europe for hosting events in the context of the EU Mobility Week. For the second consecutive year, Larnaca was included in a total of 1,923 cities for events for Mobility Week, aiming at creating an urban environment that would be friendly
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The new EU funding programme for Research and Innovation «Horizon 2020» running from 2014 to 2020 with a €80 billion budget was presented here on Thursday by the Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Marie Geoghegan-Quinn. Speaking at the Official Launch of «Horizon 2020» in Cyprus, in the presence of Minister of Labour and Social
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Erasmus+ – the EU`s new funding programme for education, training, youth and sport – was launched in Athens today by Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth. More than four million people, almost twice as many as now, will get an EU grant to study, train, gain work experience or volunteer abroad
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Cyprus` trade deficit for the first ten months of 2013 recorded a significant drop, according to Eurostat data. In the respective period of 2012, the deficit was down by 900 million euro. Furthermore, Eurostat notes that the annual harmonised inflation fell for a third consecutive month in December 2013 in Cyprus. The total value of
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MAP S.Platis, a leading financial services trainer and consultant based in Cyprus, has launched MAP-ERS, a new service for timely reporting that incorporates the demands of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The new regulation was introduced as an obligation for all EU counterparties to derivative transactions to begin reporting daily to licensed Trade Repositories
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