Balkanalysis.com Director Chris Deliso recently featured an intriguingly insightful interview on the domestic and foreign policy issues facing Greece in the 21st century from John Sitilides, a government relations and global public policy specialist with Trilogy Advisors LLC, a Washington, D.C. government affairs company. Mr. Sitilides also chairs the State Department’s professional development program for [...]
The Warsaw Stock Exchange aims to be Poland’s only power trading market, Chief Executive Officer Ludwik Sobolewski said today when asked about the government’s plans to sell its stake in the Polish Power Exchange, or Polpx. The Polish government, the largest shareholder in Polpx with a 22 percent stake, is willing to sell its shares [...]
Claudio Gatti is an investigative reporter based in New York for the Italian newspaper Il Sole-24 Ore and The International Herald Tribune. Below, he references the ongoing tangle of investigations regarding possible bribes paid by the conglomerate to secure contracts around the world, the ramifications from the responses from the respective judicial systems which processed the [...]
It has been a difficult month for the Tories across the pond in Britain – talk of internal divisions and doubts over their economic policy make question time fun to watch again. Now is the time for a positive PR campaign, some votes for the blue boys. The Guardian gets proper credit for reporting this one [...]
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych yesterday called on his opponent and longtime rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, to concede defeat in Sunday’s presidential runoff after he secured a slim victory at the polls. With more than 98 percent of the ballots counted as of Monday evening, Yanukovych had captured 48.5 percent of the vote, with Tymoshenko [...]
On a day like any other day this summer, Michael Bohndorf, a 69-year-old Deutsche Bank shareholder, travelled from his home on the Spanish island of Ibiza for a meeting in Frankfurt with one of the bank’s lawyers. There, he recalls, he received a “white gloves” welcome. “I was treated like the prince of Peru,” he says. [...]
“The only force that leaders truly fear is their own military. After all, a leader is far more likely to lose power as a result of a coup than in an election” – Paul Collier, Economics Professor at Oxford University Paul Collier has written an insightful piece in the print edition of The Africa Report on [...]
The nation of Latvia is quietly burning through its foreign reserves in order to stay pegged to the Euro. Once these reserves run out, CFP Contributor David Harris reports, its ‘game over’. Below, David discusses the potential for economic collapse in Latvia, and indeed it being a catalyst for a further fallout within European and [...]
I doubt I’ll ever find as much entertainment in a political figure as that I get out of Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Besides the soap opera that is the man’s family life, his brushes with the law and his ownership of nearly all of the nation’s commercial television channels which epitomizes the phrase ‘conflict [...]
The economic recession has re-focused world view. Today, employment is under greater global scrutiny than ever before. It is now that the role of unions to labor forces are at their zenith in terms of importance. There is no greater time for unions to shape the new face of geopolitical capitalism then indeed, from a [...]
