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. “It [...]
“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 coups [...]
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 [...]
Ross Hendin, CFP Contributor and Principal of Hendin Consultants, analyzes a new development which may curb the energy-dependence predicament that the Baltics currently find themselves in:
Today, an important step toward preventing the Baltics from continuing to be an “energy island”. Both the Guardian and Sweden’s The Local are confirming that an agreement has been [...]
Ross Hendin, CFP Contributor and Principal of Hendin Consultants, brings us another addition to our case study of the Ignalina Power Plant, here discussing unique approaches from individual nations to capitalize on Ignalina and win the ongoing geo-political game of energy-chess:
I found this article from Penki, published on April 16th, to be very interesting. [...]
I hear a lot of convincing arguments about why we shouldn’t worry about the Kremlin’s sovereign wealth ambitions.
After all, Russia’s $150 billion stabilization fund is comparatively tiny considering the returns that Gazprom and Rosneft are bringing in (though the dire lack of transparency of these state-owned firms make any estimation of capital management difficult), and [...]
