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In 2006, 90 countries had ranked as free (47% of the global total) – slightly more than today. Every year from 2006 to 2017, more countries fell in score than those that rose in each year.

The free world shrinks?

By: EBR | Thursday, April 5, 2018

Are established democracies sliding back on democratic commitments?

The green shoots of this transformation are already sprouting. In the People’s Republic of China, farmers are using drones for crop-dusting. Affordable, locally manufactured drones can spray pesticides across huge areas, helping to cut labour and equipment maintenance costs. They also get the job done fast – over 500 acres per day.

How the gig economy can transform farms in the developing world

By: EBR | Friday, March 23, 2018

Think of a modern farm. You might imagine neat rows of crops, shiny new tractors, perhaps mechanized irrigation systems. But you’d be only partly right

Taiwan, lacking energy resources, depends heavily on imports to meet more than 95 percent of its energy demand, with coal approximately 45 percent and LNG 32 percent at the moment. The increase of the LNG share to 50 percent demands the construction of more LNG terminals. This new energy mix also requires the rapid and massive development of solar, wind and hydropower resources. The government has provided the private sector with strong incentives to develop renewable energy sources.

EU invests largely in Taiwan’s energy projects. But (still) no Bilateral Investment Agreement

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, March 21, 2018

In a massive effort to deliver a serious contribution to the legally binding global climate deal of Paris (2014), Taiwan’s government aims to make the country nuclear-free by 2025

US President Donald Trump may believe that “trade wars are good and easy to win” but his plans to slap tariffs on steel and aluminium imports have triggered strong fears of a bruising global trade war.

As Trump plays with the fire, EU should lead on global trade

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 20, 2018

There’s nothing like a trade war – or even the possibility of one – to get the juices flowing: tit for tat tariffs, restrictions on imports and tough talk of retaliation and sanctions. All those shrill headlines and endless to and fro of tantalising tweets

And yet, there is at least an element of democracy in the election. Voters have choices as seven candidates are challenging Putin. They range from a millionaire communist to a former television personality. The election is a barometer of voter sentiment and Putin’s popularity. Will he get his desired 70% majority and 70% turnout?

Czar Vladimir (Putin)

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Putin rules like a Czar, deeply conservative, fearful of unrest, placing stability above all else

Cyprus—surrounded by Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt—is located at the center of a geostrategic region. On and off, gas exploration activities and rights to underwater resources off the island’s shores have been a bone of contention between the Republic of Cyprus, Northern Cyprus, and Turkey for decades.

Gas and Gunboats Around Cyprus

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 20, 2018

The latest standoff over energy resources in the Mediterranean illustrates the renewed risk of a military miscalculation in the region. More than ever before, diplomacy should prevail over saber rattling

Cyprus—surrounded by Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt—is located at the center of a geostrategic region. On and off, gas exploration activities and rights to underwater resources off the island’s shores have been a bone of contention between the Republic of Cyprus, Northern Cyprus, and Turkey for decades.

Gas and Gunboats Around Cyprus

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 20, 2018

The latest standoff over energy resources in the Mediterranean illustrates the renewed risk of a military miscalculation in the region. More than ever before, diplomacy should prevail over saber rattling

A portfolio career is a tailor-made cluster of activities/roles related to a former exec’s interests and motivations which together make up a ‘career’ following a full-time career role. Increasingly, executives approaching the end of their corporate career will start to build their portfolio with their first non-executive director (NED) experience, often on the board of a charity.

Ten Networking Strategies to a Seat on the Board

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 20, 2018

How executives create second-act careers on boards

“Internet openness will be challenged by devices if it is impossible to circumvent app stores tied to the operating system since, when choosing the apps they want to download, users can only view their choices through the prism of the search engine included in the store,” the French report said.

EU telecoms regulators examine whether app stores restrict internet access

By: EBR | Thursday, March 15, 2018

European telecoms regulators are investigating whether app stores restrict internet access by limiting their users’ choice of content, the chair of the umbrella group of EU watchdogs said on Wednesday (14 March)

SIPRI’s report, Trends in International Arms Trends, 2017, identifies 67 countries as exporters of major weapons in 2013–17. It lists the five largest suppliers during the period as the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China.

What you need to know about global arms sales in 6 charts

By: EBR | Thursday, March 15, 2018

The rise in global arms sales that began in the early 2000s continued in 2017

For Western Europe, the overall gap to reach gender parity is currently the smallest, although still at 25%.

Western Europe: The Fastest-Closing Gender Gap

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Which world regions have the widest gender gaps and which are closing slowest?

The bigger point is that there was—and still is—a set of trade rules that set certain standards, particularly with regard to subsidies. China, with its insatiable appetite for markets and trade, flouted the rules. If Trump is serious about walking away from the WTO and adopting a protectionist policy, Xi Jinping, China’s president and communist party leader (who has just had himself elected for life), must be in heaven. Trump has handed him a silver platter, even if the United States slaps tariffs on China’s steel imports. The United States is walking away from the free trade rules that it made.

Trump and Putin Tear Up the Rulebooks

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 13, 2018

The post-1945 institutions are being eclipsed, leaving a vacuum that favors China and weakens Europeans unless they change course

Investments cannot present any improvement without effort because we exited from the memorandums without the existence of serious Foreign Investment Funds (FIF) in order to be synchronized with the saving rate of the economy, which remains weak at 11 % of GDP (while in other EU countries the figure reached 20% of GDP)

Contemporary economy and new prospects

By: EBR | Monday, March 12, 2018

A thorough reading to economic indicators offers a temporary relief that emerges from the following data: in the second quarter of 2018, private consumption rose to +1 % from 0 % in the first quarter, employment increased in the first half of 2018 +1,6 % from +1,2 % in 2017

Though the price of Bitcoin has been uncharacteristically stable at the time of writing (though it’s beginning to drop again), it’s difficult to imagine it reaching the zenith of late last year, particularly with mounting threats of greater regulation cooling down the speculative excitement. So, if Roubini and these other doomsayers prove to be correct and the preeminent cryptocurrency is teetering on the brink, what, if anything, will be its legacy? What will become of the blockchain?

Still don’t understand the blockchain? This explainer will help

By: EBR | Monday, March 12, 2018

The world has been captivated by the drama surrounding Bitcoin’s meteoric rise and subsequent collapse

In emerging markets, corporate governance logics shape coverage decisions by influencing risk perception. It would be important for analysts, especially those from shareholder-logic countries, to recognise their tendency to perceive family firms as riskier vs. non-family firms with otherwise similar profiles. Such an awareness may reduce their risk of missing out on firms with high growth potential.

Why Family Firms Lack Analyst Coverage

By: EBR | Monday, March 12, 2018

Widely-held cultural views shape securities analysts’ assessment of family firms

When organisations mistakenly assume new market creation hinges on breakthrough technologies, they tend to push for products or services that are either too “out there” – ahead of their time, too esoteric, too complicated – or, like the Segway, lacking the complementary ecosystem needed to open up a new market. In fact, many technology innovations fail to create and capture new markets even as they win accolades for their organisations. Think of TiVo, whose original digital video recorder garnered a lot of fanfare and is in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s National Inventors Hall of Fame, but left most people wondering what it did and why they would want it.

Why tech innovation isn’t the answer everyone thinks it is

By: EBR | Monday, March 12, 2018

Value innovation is the cornerstone of new market creation

In the international edition of the New York Times on February 17-18, professor Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth College (an Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire) wrote that ‘much more remains to be learned about the effects of these types of online activities, but people should not assume they had huge effects. Previous studies have found, for instance, that the effects of even television advertising (arguable a higher impact medium) are very small.’

Who want to combat online misinformation should take steps based on evidence and data

By: N. Peter Kramer | Thursday, March 8, 2018

Some people in the US have the idea that false news articles that flooded Facebook and other online outlets during the presidential elections in November 2016 swung the election to Donald Trump

It’s important to keep up the pressure, to continue the global marches and campaigns and to make sure that equal rights issues continue to trend on social media. It is important to get men involved and to insist, as Hillary Clinton did in Beijing in 1995, that “women’s rights are human rights”. Most of all, it is important to press for new policies, stronger action and strict enforcement.

Gender equality is on the global agenda but change is still too slow

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 6, 2018

This time it’s really different. Or at least it should be. This year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March comes amid an unprecedented global movement for women’s rights, equality and justice

The EU and Israel have indeed cultivated valuable and flourishing cooperation in several areas, which ought to be nourished and concretized by leadership in the near future, lest it dissipate into nearly nothing. It almost goes without saying that, as Israel is one of the world leaders in the field of security, intelligence and cyber, the EU should make the most of the partnership with its Middle-East ally as a resource as it confronts and responds to emerging threats within its borders.

Opportunities amidst Crisis in EU-Israel Ties

By: EBR | Friday, March 2, 2018

The EU and Israel have known better years of more extensive relations and stronger hopes for closer ties. Sadly, the current era is not one of growth and warming of relations

The ruling states: “The required warning for glyphosate does not appear to be factually accurate and uncontroversial because it conveys the message that glyphosate’s carcinogenicity is an undisputed fact, when almost all other regulators have concluded that there is insufficient evidence that it causes cancer.

US Judge says scientists have ”not shown” link between glyphosate and cancer

By: EBR | Wednesday, February 28, 2018

A key ruling by a US judge on glyphosate could have significant implications on the status of the herbicide at EU level, according to a parliamentary source

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EU Actually

Ukraine may buy for 6 billion euros Chinese drones with EU money

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

In his weekly column, N. Peter Kramer writes about the Ukraine buying for 6 billion euros drones in China with EU money. Is it a threat for Taiwan?

Europe

Diplomacy intensifies over Cyprus

Diplomacy intensifies over Cyprus

United Nations secretary-general envoy Maria Angela Holguin will be in Brussels on Wednesday for meetings seen as important to European Union preparations for a possible revival of Cyprus reunification talks ahead of an expected visit by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Cyprus next week.

Business

How Much Pressure Can European CEOs Take?

How Much Pressure Can European CEOs Take?

There was a time when the job of the CEO was difficult but relatively clear: grow the business, beat the competition, manage costs, satisfy shareholders, inspire employees and avoid major reputational mistakes. That world has disappeared.

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