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The first one would be to retaliate directly against US exports on certain goods, such as bourbon, oranges or motorcycles. These measures would have the obvious problem of hurting European consumers. Also, the WTO legal basis for such measures is difficult to find.

Trump’s steel tariffs: How to avoid a trade war

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Europe should avoid over-reacting to US announcements on aluminium and steel tariffs

GRI’s Chris Solomon asked Syria expert Rasmus Jacobsen – co-founder and head of analysis for Atlas Assistance, a Beirut-based risk management company – for his views on the risk outlook.

Prospects for investment in Syria’s reconstruction

By: EBR | Monday, February 26, 2018

With ISIS seemingly on the retreat, is it time for investors to start considering opportunities in facilitating Syria’s reconstruction?

Germany-currently running a budget surplus-has no plans to cut taxes, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government. And Singapore-running a surplus this year and looking at a roughly balanced budget next year-is proposing a significant tax increase.

What Singapore And Germany Can Teach The U.S. About Fiscal Policy

By: EBR | Monday, February 26, 2018

The U.S.- with a projected 2018 federal budget deficit of 4 percent of Gross Domestic Product and an economy running at close to full employment- just cut taxes by $1.5 trillion over 10 years, even as it increased net spending by $300 billion over just the next two

Some governments have had success in improving their score over the past six years with the Ivory Coast, Senegal and the UK all making steady progress. On the other hand, others have seen their scores slide over the same period with Syria, Yemen and Australia among the countries declining.

Where Corruption Is Raging Around The World

By: EBR | Monday, February 26, 2018

Transparency International released its 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index on Wednesday, finding that most countries around the world are making little or no progress in ending corruption

On Feb. 01, delivering his budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley told parliament that the government think-tank, Niti Aayog, will spearhead a national programme on AI, including research and development. The intent showed in the numbers: Budget allocation for Digital India, the government’s umbrella initiative to promote AI, machine learning, 3D printing, and other technologies, was almost doubled to Rs3,073 crore ($477 million) this year.

India hopes to become an AI powerhouse, with inspiration from China

By: EBR | Friday, February 23, 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) has finally caught the Indian government’s attention

Βut I will tell you, representing the United States, it’s a very unfair situation. We cannot get our product in. It’s very, very tough. And yet they send their product to us — no taxes, very little taxes, it’s very unfair. I’ve had a lot of problems with the European Union, and it may morph into something very big from that standpoint, from a trade standpoint. The European Union has treated the United States very unfairly when it came to trade…and I think it’ll turn out to be very much to their detriment.

America First — Or Against All?

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 20, 2018

To Trump, everything in politics – even at the global trade stage – is about him personally and how it affects his business interests

The build-up to Egypt’s presidential election was mired in rumour and speculation even before the official timetable was announced on 8 January. President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s vice-like grip on the country’s ruling institutions – the government, parliament and army – is unlikely to ease at such a critical time. Any credible challenger to his rule needs more than bravado alone

Egypt votes: the last man standing

By: EBR | Thursday, February 15, 2018

Staying true to the political climate in post-Mubarak Egypt, the upcoming presidential election is as unpredictable, as it is predictable. Seven influential figures announced their intention to stand in the election, but really only one remains

Many assume DQ has something to do with the skills needed to use technology more effectively, such as how to debug a computer that won’t start, or use all the features of your smartphone. Actually, this is not DQ. Others think it means limiting your screen time, being aware of developmental hazards for kids who overuse screens, or knowing when to disconnect from your device and anything related to addiction and “digital intoxication”. While this is part of DQ, it’s actually only one of eight main elements that define it.

Forget IQ: Digital intelligence will be what matters in the future

By: EBR | Friday, February 9, 2018

According to business tycoon Jack Ma, the key to success is emotional intelligence. But if you want to be respected, he says, you'll need "high LQ – the IQ of love”

Asia’s political landscape is deeply flawed with: Oligarchic democracies in Japan and Korea; pro-business soft dictatorships in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore; Chinese client states in Cambodia and Laos; weak and fragile democracies in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal; military-dominated governments in Thailand, Pakistan, and Myanmar; and staunchly authoritarian states in China, North Korea and Vietnam.

Seven challenges for an Asian century

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 6, 2018

To reach its full potential, Asia will need to overcome seven key challenges in the 21st century

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is famous for claiming to pursue a “zero problems” foreign policy in the Middle East. Aiming for zero problems in the Middle East is difficult for anybody to deliver on. After all, the wider neighborhood is fiendishly complex and conflict-ridden. No wonder that his vision unraveled badly. In the process, Erdogan crossed swords with just about every nation in the region, from Egypt to Syria and Iran to Iraq.

Erdogan: Everybody’s False Friend

By: EBR | Friday, February 2, 2018

The Turkish President only knows one loyalty — to himself. Little wonder Erdogan acts like a congenital flamethrower in international relations

“I’m giving up my days of school because I want to highlight that the education of girls and women is so important.” She described meeting a Syrian refugee girl, and asking her what she wanted to be. “She said, I want to be an architect, because on the day that she left Syria, she saw her country destroyed and devastated. She wants to be an architect to rebuild her country.”

6 quotes from Davos on the future of education

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The future of work is going to look very different, as automation and Artificial Intelligence make many manual, repetitive jobs obsolete.

Johannes Gungl, the chair of BEREC, the umbrella group of telecoms regulators from EU countries, told EURACTIV.com that the US plan is unrealistic. He predicted that it would likely lead to a price war if the government bankrolls a nationalised network and competes with another one funded by private telecoms operators.

EU telecoms regulator warns US proposal on 5G would ‘end in disaster’

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 30, 2018

A proposal from the Trump administration to build public-funded 5G networks will “end in disaster”, the EU’s top telecoms regulator has warned, urging Europe to speed up plans for its own fast internet networks

China will be the big financial story of tomorrow, said Jin Keyu, Professor of Economics at LSE. ”It’s the first time a county with only 25% of the GDP of the US is leading in many areas of tech. As we encourage China to open up, are we prepared for the shocks and volatility that even a tiny tremor in China could cause?”

What just happened? The biggest stories from Davos 2018

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 30, 2018

That's it for another year. With over 400 sessions on the official programme (160 of which were broadcast live on our website), it can be hard keeping up with everything happening at our Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland

“Have we actually learned the lessons of history? We haven’t really,” she said in a plenary session at Davos. The spirit of multilateralism that rebuilt Europe and formed our international institutions in the aftermath of the Second World War was now under threat, she said.

Angela Merkel at Davos: we need global cooperation, not walls

By: EBR | Friday, January 26, 2018

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the importance of multilateralism and warned that we haven’t learned from the darkest days of history

As the UK leaves the EU, it will still be an advocate of global trade, making new bilateral deals with countries across the world, says the British PM.

British Prime Minister Theresa May looked ahead to hi-tech life after Brexit

By: EBR | Friday, January 26, 2018

A special address by UK’s Theresa May

President Macron also called for the EU, which already opened the world’s first carbon trading market, to “go a little bit further and create a floor price for CO2.” Carbon markets work by providing a financial incentive to pollute less; many experts have called for a minimum price on carbon to boost progress.

Macron at Davos: I will shut all coal-fired power stations by 2021

By: EBR | Friday, January 26, 2018

France will shut down all coal-fired power stations by 2021, President Emmanuel Macron said in an energetic speech to participants at Davos

“Bitcoin is another really clever idea, I’m impressed with the technology, but it seems to me that it’s technology for something else…. I tend to think of Bitcoin as an interesting experiment, it’s not a permanent feature of our lives. We’re over-emphasising Bitcoin, we should broaden it out to blockchain, which will have other applications.”

Robert Shiller: Bitcoin is just an ’interesting experiment’

By: EBR | Friday, January 26, 2018

The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller described Bitcoin as an “interesting experiment” rather than the future of our financial system

”If we don’t align together, human beings are going to fight each other, because each technology revolution makes the world unbalanced.”

Jack Ma on the IQ of love - and other top quotes from his Davos interview

By: EBR | Thursday, January 25, 2018

In Davos, Alibaba founder and Executive Chairman Jack Ma spoke openly and at length about some of the key challenges facing the world, delivering a stream of perspectives and guidance

Still, there is good news for spurring growth and equity in the form of the billion or so women poised to engage in economic activity. Empowering women to participate equally in the global economy could add $28 trillion in GDP growth by 2025.

This is why women must play a greater role in the global economy

By: EBR | Thursday, January 25, 2018

For the last 30 years, trade has been one of the stabilising pillars of the global community – creating jobs, supporting the development and spreading of technology and ideas, boosting productivity, expanding consumer choice and enabling cross-border communications channels and supply chains

On that note, today, I am pleased to announce that Canada and the ten other remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership concluded discussions in Tokyo, Japan, on a new Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Justin Trudeau addresses the World Economic Forum

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 24, 2018

A transcript of Justin Trudeau's speech at the World Economic Forum 2018

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