. By Dr. Jim Leontiades International Institute of Management A British soldier observing the prosperous German countryside a decade or so after WWII commented to his colleague: “Makes you wonder who won the war”. Only a few years earlier, most of German industry and many of its cities were in ruins. How was it, kawatches.com
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. By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary Currency markets have experienced a high degree of volatility lately, and this is likely to be mirrored by much of the same in equities markets. Analysts are concerned that a lot of the uncertainty is being seen in the forex trading arena, and the bond markets and
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The ultimate owners of companies will have to be listed in central registers in EU countries, open both to the authorities and to people with a "legitimate interest", such as investigative journalists, under new rules already agreed with the Council and endorsed by the European Parliament on Wednesday. The new anti-money laundering directive aims to
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* Progress meeting for implementation of the EuroAsia project * On-site inspections have taken place of the cable landfall area near Haifa, in Israel, from where the ambitious multi-billion EuroAsia Interconnector project will be launched, with Cyprus expected to join the grid and receive electricity from the world’s longest sub-sea cable in 2019. The project,
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The outlook for the Greek banking system is negative, primarily reflecting the acute deterioration in Greek banks' funding and liquidity, Moody's Investors Service said in a new report. These pressures are unlikely to ease over the next 12-18 months and there is a high likelihood of an imposition of capital controls and a deposit freeze.
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. Historian and sociologist Taner Akcam, a holocaust and genocide lecturer and researcher at Clark University presented a highly informative, illuminating even, lecture on Monday night on “A hundred years after: new aspects of the Armenian Genocide”. It is not so much the information that was revealed at the packed University of Cyprus lecture hall,
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. With political analysts arguing that Britain is a secretly left-wing nation, the Labour Party was demolished by last week’s general election, “which comprehensively demonstrated that voters prize economic competence above waffly ideology,” said the Economist. The result also reduced Labour to its lowest number of MPs since 1987 and led swiftly to the resignation
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. By Antonis Loizou F.R.I.C.S. – Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Real Estate & Project Managers Amid all the economic crisis and falling demand in the property market, the only hope that remains is that single measure about residency and citizenship linked to property investments introduced during the Tassos Papadopoulos presidency in 2007, which,
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An four-panel workshop on the moral view of politics was organised by a Cypriot academic on the sidelines of the 65th international conference of the Political Studies Association of the UK in Sheffield, where British idealism and the moral view of politics was the main topic of discussion, a timely subject as the event was
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Members of the WISTA network of women at management level in the maritime industry were not at all surprised to hear that equal opportunities and equal pay for women are still far from reality in Cyprus. The results of the study were presented by Anna Koukkides Procopiou, President of the International Association for the Promotion
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