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Economists have been much sought after by businesses, governments, and society at large, their insights seen as useful in every sphere of life. Popularized economics and economic-type thinking have produced an entire genre of best-selling books. At the root of all this influence is the notion that economics provides the most powerful lens through which to understand the modern world.

The End of Economics?

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Human beings are rarely rational—so it’s time we all stopped pretending they are

We predict that 2020 will be known for advanced phishing attacks, due to the number of new phishing kits available on the dark web. These kits enable people with only basic technical knowledge to run their own phishing attacks. With more tools available, phishing will become an even more dangerous attack method.

Here are the biggest cybercrime trends of 2019

By: EBR | Friday, March 8, 2019

Cybercriminals are using more advanced and scalable tools to breach user privacy, and they are getting results. Two billion data records were compromised in 2017, and more than 4.5 billion records were breached in the first half of 2018 alone

With nationalist policies and protectionist outlooks, populist leaders excel at the kind of rhetoric that plays well to supporters on their home turf while ratcheting up international tensions. But it can have a substantial impact on trade, destabilize financial markets and the oil sector, and provoke trade wars of the kind witnessed between China and the US.

The top 10 risks to the global economy, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit

By: EBR | Friday, March 8, 2019

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has compiled a list of what it regards as the top 10 global risks of 2019. It makes for sobering reading, with a number of active threats to stability and security only likely to get worse before they get any better

The near absence of Ukraine in the Western media in the run-up to an election that is of critical importance for Ukraine’s reform process means that many will be caught by surprise if one of two possible scenarios materializes: one, if Zelensky wins; or two, if the election result is contested, potentially pitting the top candidates and their supporters against each other. The latter could happen if Zelensky wins and parts of society do not accept the outcome. It could also happen if either Poroshenko or Tymoshenko win and the losing candidate questions the result and the legitimacy of the winner.

Ukraine: What Comes After the Presidential Election?

By: EBR | Thursday, March 7, 2019

It is high time for Europe and the United States to pay much closer attention to Ukrainian politics and the whole range of possible outcomes of the elections ahead

There is no room for complacency, however. ‘Gender deniers’ no longer lurk in the corners, they are in the spotlight. The push-back against women is serious. Take your foot off the pedal – even for a minute – and there’s a danger of slippage, of the return to old mindsets and of suffocatingly restrictive traditions.

''Gender deniers'', feminist foreign policy and the myth of ''STRONGMEN''

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 5, 2019

So-called "strongmen" may strut on the world stage but powerful women are now pushing back

Technical, economic, and social factors will determine the pace and extent of automation. Continued technical progress, for example in areas such as natural language processing, is a key factor. Beyond technical feasibility, the cost of technology, competition with labor including skills and supply and demand dynamics, performance benefits including and beyond labor cost savings, and social and regulatory acceptance will affect the pace and scope of automation

A combined future of labour that works

By: EBR | Monday, March 4, 2019

Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are ushering in a new age of automation, as machines match or outperform human performance in a range of work activities, including ones requiring cognitive capabilities

According to the project, probunkers will design, build and operate a fleet of modern, eco-friendly LNG bunkering vessels to brace the ever-changing needs of global shipping. At this stage, the company is interested to build seven (7) LNGBVs, which will operate in various ports worldwide, and invites companies to submit initial, concept design proposals, along with outline specification and General Arrangement for such type of vessel.

Probunkers invites proposals for building 7 LNG Bunkering Vessels

By: EBR | Monday, March 4, 2019

Full steam ahead for the company’s ambitious LNG Bunkering project. A world-class investment opportunity

Cabral talks to Greek News Agenda*about the post memorandum era for Greece stressing that the Eurozone adjustment programs were quite destructive to debtor economies like Greece’s and Portugal’s, because their objective was to make sure that these countries could service their debts in the short and medium term, regardless of whether the debt was sustainable and or could ever be fully repaid.

Economics Professor Ricardo Cabral: “Eurozone is confronting again its original sin”

By: EBR | Thursday, February 28, 2019

Ricardo Cabral is assistant professor of Economics, former Vice President, and former Economics and Management Department Head of the University of Madeira, Portugal. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of South Carolina

For more than a decade, healthcare workers from doctors to hospital administrators have been warning EU governments that by 2025 there will be a dire shortage of qualified professionals. From top-flight surgeons to relatively humdrum nurses, there simply won't be enough of them.

Europe's ageing crisis: Coming soon to a hospital near you!

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Giles Merritt reports on the dramatic shrinkage of Europe's doctors and healthcare professionals

In short, this is about a game changer: by vastly expanding its diplomatic outreach and by setting up permanent military bases in the region (like the United States, United Kingdom, and France have done), Russia has altered several strategic parameters in the Middle East region to its advantage. Similarly, Iran—through a policy sometimes called the “axis of resistance”—has developed its Mediterranean ambitions and reinforced its military involvement in Lebanon and Syria in a clearly anti-Western and anti-Israeli posture

Four Game Changers in Europe’s South

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Iran, Turkey, Russia, and the United States are deepening their footprints in the Middle East. The EU must now confront this new geopolitical landscape

Prime Minister Netanyahu travels a lot abroad. February 21, he flies to Moscow for talks focused on Iran’s efforts to establish military presence in Syria. He will meet President Putin for the first formal talks since Russia blamed Israel for the downing of a military aircraft by Syrian anti-aircraft fire last year. This will be the second meeting between the two leaders since Syria’s downing of a Russian intelligence plane in September, an incident Russia said Israel was indirectly responsible for and which strained Jerusalem-Moscow ties. Netanyahu and Putin met briefly in Paris in November on the sidelines of ceremonies commemorating 100 years since the end of World War I.

Bring the April elections in Israel a surprise?

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Elections for the 21st Knesset, Israel's national parliament, are on April 9, 2019. At the moment there are thirteen political parties in the parliament divided over 120 seats. The big question is, will prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu be reelected?

Too many governments, for too many years, have shrugged off their responsibility. They have paid lip service to the importance of girls’ education - and gender equality - but then left the real heavy lifting to NGOs, philanthropists and the private sector. Multilateral development banks are focused on the big picture issues of development such as energy, connectivity and climate change. But there can be no big picture development unless little girls grow up to be educated, emancipated and active women.

Thank heaven for educated girls:Why gender equality is key to sustainable development

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Getting girls in classrooms is a key condition for implementing Agenda 2030. So how about if the EU made girls’ education a key condition when it provides countries with development aid?

Zarif’s speech exposed the deep divisions between the United States and the Europeans over the Iran nuclear deal. Despite Chancellor Angela Merkel’s attempts on Saturday to explain why it was necessary to preserve the deal, while at the same time acknowledging Iran’s disruptive role in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza, there was no meeting of minds between both sides of the Atlantic.

Misplaced Nostalgia for the Old West

By: EBR | Monday, February 18, 2019

This year’s Munich Security Conference ended as it begun: a bickering West reluctant to address the new geostrategic realities

Given they knew where these tweets had been sent from, and how happy or sad they were, the researchers were then able to match the tweets to a daily local air quality index, providing a real-time connection between air pollution and happiness. Analysing data from 144 Chinese cities, they found that self-reported happiness was significantly lower on days with relatively higher pollution levels.

Air pollution may be affecting how happy you are

By: EBR | Friday, February 15, 2019

For decades now, GDP has been the standard measure of a nation’s well-being. But it is becoming clear that an economic boost may not be accompanied by a rise in individual happiness

The years of terror that followed the French Revolution had their foundations in the statecraft drafted by Richelieu. Napoleon's wars had the same base, and the Treaty of Vienna (1814) that followed those wars reciprocated the favor of establishing an order in which the dismal choices of impotent realism and impossible idealism reigned supreme again.

Impotent Realism vs. Impossible Idealism: Simplicissimus of the Land of Stable Disequilibrium Meets Cardinal Richelieu of the Land of Unstable Equilibrium

By: EBR | Thursday, February 14, 2019

The year 1648 symbolizes the beginning of the modern era

The freedom of the press and the ARB case

By: Athanase Papandropoulos | Thursday, February 14, 2019

The Athens Review of Books is at risk of closing down in an unlawful manner that Viktor Orban and Donald Trump would envy

Now federal prosecutors are reportedly reviewing Bezos’s claims; if Bezos is correct, then A.M.I. may have broken the law, violated its agreement, and once again acted to defend Trump, who is decidedly not an admirer of Bezos or his newspaper, the Washington Post. (In a statement, A.M.I. said that it “believes fervently that it acted lawfully in reporting the story of Mr. Bezos.”)

How Jeff Bezos Sees the Press: A Conversation with the Journalist Brad Stone

By: EBR | Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Last week, the world’s richest man became a Medium author. On Thursday, the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, penned an extraordinary essay on the site saying that the National Enquirer was trying to extort him

It looks like the Democratic party takes a left turn. An opportunity for President Trump? In his State of the Union last week, he said ‘We are born free and will stay free. America will never be a socialist country’. To continue with broadside against the crumbling Chavez regime in Venezuela,’ where socialist policies have turned (it) from the richest country in South America to the poorest on earth’.

US Democrats are going ‘socialist’. A boon for Trump?

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, February 11, 2019

‘America will never be socialist’, Donald Trump said in his State of the Union last week. He criticised ‘new calls to adopt socialism in this country’

The digital age and the omnipresence of digital interactions and connectedness open doors to a multitude of business opportunities for European companies. According to the results of the survey, 89.3% of companies state that they are fully aware of the new prospects brought about by the digital revolution.

Digital transformation in selected industries

By: EBR | Thursday, February 7, 2019

The 2018 Digital Transformation Scoreboard survey focused on two industries – food and construction – that are essential to Europe’s economy and in which SMEs constitute a large share of added value and employment at EU level

The world as we have known it for the past 50 years is falling apart. A new nationalism is on the rise, free trade is threatened and identified as the cause of the global predicament, while the resurgence of hard power cannot be discarded. Consequently, taming the forces of the market is secondary in relation to putting the market in service of power. These are all macro-trends whose meaning and effects should be familiar to every family-owned conglomerate, to every CEO or family member groomed to be the next leader.

Superclans: Global Entrepreneurial Families and Investor Resilience

By: EBR | Thursday, February 7, 2019

We live in an age of disruption and, with every passing day, we receive confirmation that only those who smartly embrace change will be able to survive in an increasingly competitive business environment

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On the eve of the UN climate conference COP30 in Brazil, the word was finally out.

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Disunited European Parliament calls off EU budget rebellion

"The Commission’s proposals are quite good and meet our demands," said EPP MEP Herbert Dorfmann, while sources close to the file said centre-left S&D lawmakers were unhappy with the suggestions.

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China to loosen chip export ban to Europe after Netherlands row

Beijing has said it will loosen a chip export ban it imposed after Dutch authorities took over Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands.