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Crises as opportunities. This idea is seen by many as a cliché, but it’s more like common wisdom seldom truly understood. Politics is, par excellence, the place of change and reinvention, often under pressure from events and public opinion. To use a paraphrase, politics abhors not a vacuum, but stability. Reinvent yourself or die politically is the motto (or the nightmare) of every true political leader. The propensity for change has taught politicians some valuable lessons: preach the need for change but never reform too much at once; take calculated risks; leverage flaws and imperfections; have people with various skills and social access in your team; take advantage of absence and silence and befriend unpredictability.

Political mindset: five lessons for CEOs

By: EBR | Monday, October 9, 2017

Government should be run like a business and politicians should follow what the business leaders are doing, matching their drive for efficiency and innovation

While China is already the world leader in drones - companies such Shenzhen-based DJI have 70% of global market share - it is coming up with increasingly innovative ways of dealing with the ever-growing desire for quick delivery from e-commerce. This month saw the testing of what appears to be the world’s first large cargo drone, while the market leaders continue to drive innovation and adoption in new segments - such as fresh food delivery - catering to China’s growing middle-class of consumers.

Seven things we learned about China in September

By: EBR | Friday, October 6, 2017

This month there was tremendous noise around the boom and bust of bitcoin exchanges and initial coin offerings (ICO), with lots of speculation around the reasons behind the government’s policy moves in this area

The coming decade will see more foreign chairs in Italy, Denmark and the U.K. Singaporean chairs, currently quite homogeneous in terms of being born and raised in Singapore, understand that as boards become more diverse, the way they work will change. The current offline paradigm of decision making – in which decisions are made outside of board meetings – will have to be sent back to the board room.

How boards will look in ten years

By: EBR | Thursday, October 5, 2017

More women and a wider array of professionals are likely to fill future boards, while technology will play a bigger role in their work

Catalonia would not have the means, including the fiscal means, to enforce a full independence. Problems would abound soon: who collects which taxes, who controls the regional police etc. At some point in time, Barcelona and Madrid will need to talk.

Catalan questions

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 4, 2017

What’s ahead for Catalonia, Spain and the EU following the tumultuous Catalan independence referendum?

Shpakovsky told the conference that traders and funds will be tokenised through the system’s web interface and be legalized through the system’s umbrella licence. They will then gain access to a large community of already Know-Your-Customer, or KYC, authorized investors. Meanwhile, for their part, investors will get access to a wide range of funds and traders, which have already gone through all the Tokenbox’s strict due-diligence procedures.

Tokenbox hailed as a ”unique ecosystem for crypto investors, traders and funds”

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 4, 2017

The co-founder of The Token Fund, a crypto asset investment vehicle, has spelled out the benefits he and his colleagues are planning to bring to Tokenbox, their new fund creation and management platform

The city seems more relaxed than ever. Probably because tourists are staying away. That is the good news, I might add. Yesterday I walked with my dog Boni in the Ciutadella Parc, 40 metres from my house. Suddenly, we saw a camera crew, which is quite rare in a parc. Without realising it, we were standing in front of the Catalan Parliament. In plenary session, on top of it, for at that moment the declaration of independence was debated. One camera crew, two French girls who were clearly lost sightseeing and a few extra cars. If this is how history and democracy look like, next time they should inform the people. Boni decided to pee just in front of the Parliament.

Bloody Sunday?

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 3, 2017

When I returned to Barcelona last Sunday, I expected to end up in a kind of war zone. I watched the news in Brussels looking for a kind of securing ‘Go’

Our last pillar, innovation and sophistication, consists of two pillars: business sophistication and innovation. These are more complex areas of competitiveness that require an economy to be able to draw on world-class businesses and research establishments, as well as an innovative, supportive government. Countries that score highly in these pillars tend to be advanced economies with high gross domestic product per capita.

What exactly is economic competitiveness?

By: EBR | Monday, October 2, 2017

What is economic competitiveness? There are actually a number of definitions out there

Political survival is one thing, the actual act of governing quite another. To form a dependable coalition, Merkel is now dependent on the Greens and the FDP, both of which are very much aware that Merkel tends to “swallow” (read: greatly weaken politically) whoever is her coalition partner.

Germany: Why a Jamaica coalition deepens the division of society

By: EBR | Friday, September 29, 2017

The Jamaica coalition consists of representatives of the globalization and modernization winners. It pitches urban elites against the less successful

The latest World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index ranks 137 economies by their ability to sustain inclusive growth. That’s growth that delivers positive change and benefits citizens and the environment. The index looks at 12 pillars of competitiveness including innovation, infrastructure and the macroeconomic environment. It ranks countries on how they score in each category.

These are the world’s 10 most competitive economies

By: EBR | Friday, September 29, 2017

Almost 10 years after the economic crisis, the world economy is in much better shape. The slow yet steady growth seen over the last few years is set to continue, with a predicted 3.5% in growth in 2017

Interactive MOOLT aims to teach a specific set of skills, ranging from developing attention span and focus to boosting memory, creative and logic thinking. The key aim is to enable children to develop a better comprehension of the surrounding world in a safe interactive environment. Among the most popular apps are “Be-be-bears”, an educational mobile game based on a cartoon series and the first app to be released on iOS and Android in April 2016. It was voted one of the best iPad apps of 2016 and featured in Google Play Editor’s “top 5 family games.” Other best sellers are “Paper Tales” which aims to increase a child’s children’s creative thinking, and “Rolando Locomotov”. This provides users with advice and tasks boosting concentration and logic.

Making the digital world a safer place for children

By: EBR | Thursday, September 28, 2017

Children nowadays are spending an increasing amount of time on technological devices something which present opportunities but also a huge challenge

What’s happening in the region? Some remarkable things. Hamas government paves the way for ’national unity’ The Palestinian Movement Hamas has decided to dissolve its ”governing committee” in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic movement says in a statement to want to hold general elections and to open up dialogue with the rival Fatah movement led by President Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas invites the reconciliation government with representatives of Fatah to come to the Gaza Strip and take over the tasks of Hamas’ shadow government. This would put an end to a ten-year conflict.

Will Benjamin Netanyahu becoming the longest-serving prime minister of Israel?

By: EBR | Monday, September 25, 2017

Benjamin Netanyahu has been elected Prime Minister of Israel four times, matching Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion’s record

Reform has hardly begun in crucial areas such as the judiciary, the public prosecutor’s office, the powerful secret service and the electoral system.Without rapid, fundamental reforms here, Ukraine will not secure stable democracy and the rule of law. It will regress to the type of society it was before Maidan, with oligarchs, politicians and public officials dividing up the country’s political and economic pie between them, blocking modernisation and keeping Ukrainian citizens poor and unrepresented.

Ukraine on the way back to pre-Maidan Square era

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 20, 2017

A conference held at the PressClub Brussels Europe this week, heard that there have reportedly been several cases involving the government's 'Security Service of Ukraine' (SBU)

Perhaps the most striking feature of the 26-28 September online discussions is their global character. We are conditioned by history and by more contemporary events to think of security and defence in terms of national alliances and antagonisms. The current spate of military exercises underlines this point, as does the confrontation between Pyongyang and Washington DC together with Seoul.

NATO’s generals must focus on Europe’s real security threats

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 19, 2017

In contrast to Cold War-style military exercises by NATO and Russia, security experts will soon discuss online 21st-century threats ranging from radicalisation to cyber attacks to climate change and mass migration. Giles Merritt looks at the lessons to be learned

What Happened reveals what she really thinking at Trump debate. She’s now the unvarnished candidate Democrats needed in their primary and the country needed when Trump became the GOP presidential nominee. With approval numbers lower than Donald Trump, the most unpopular president in history at this point in a presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton has nowhere to go but up. Her new book, What Happened, seems to support precisely that.

‘What Happened’, Hillary Clinton looks back in anger – but it’s big business

By: EBR | Monday, September 18, 2017

Join Hillary Rodham Clinton as she travels the United States this fall. She’ll connect with audience with a story that’s personal, raw, detailed and surprisingly funny

Hurricane Irma is responsible for six dead in Florida, destroying homes and complete landscapes. Governor Rick Scott declared the state of emergency and president Donald Trump promised to give all the help needed, especially extra money. Days after Irma began her assault on the Caribbean and southern Florida, Irma was still churning north on Monday, causing fresh damage in areas where many Floridians had sought refuge over the weekend.

Hurricane Irma: 500+ miles of destruction

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 13, 2017

“Irma is a lovely name for a woman, but reality is terrible and catastrophic. Irma has a deadly path for a lot of people”, I told interviewers last Saturday afternoon

While there is a dearth of data on the fourth sector, there are indications that it could account for as much as 10% of GDP as well as nearly twice the job growth rate as traditional for-profit businesses in the US and Europe. There are numerous studies suggesting a significant demand for fourth sector approaches among consumers, investors and other stakeholders. According to a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report, there are millions of for-benefit startups being launched around the world each year. The sector is poised to grow rapidly.

The fourth sector is a chance to build a new economic model for the benefit of all

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 13, 2017

We are living on the cusp of opportunity and calamity

So far, we may have disliked such exploitation, but people in today’s industrialized societies have implicitly consented to their political and economic system, which produces such drastic inequality in wealth and opportunities.

The world today: A net assessment

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Is the call for a global emergency mere alarmism? Or do we really have reason to be alarmed?

After the launch of Ghanasat-1, the team continues to educate young students through the ‘outreach programme’ where they visit high school students in Ghana and use demonstrations showing how a satellite communicates: ‘By 2018 every Ghanian student will be able to define what a satellite is’ indicated Matey. The launch of the satellite sets up business to build more satellites. This will create a lot of new job opportunities for the young graduates. The establishment of companies will benefit Ghanaian society as it opens a wide range of new job positions for the locals. Some examples of these companies are: GOMspace from Denmark, AM Technology from Switzerland and New Space Systems from South Africa.

Ghana’s first satellite launched to Space: exclusive interview with the three Engineers of this initiative

By: EBR | Monday, September 11, 2017

Ghana gained independence in 1957 the same year when the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I

President Donald Trump, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on May 22. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Some leaders wrestle with news media better than other leaders

By: EBR | Friday, September 8, 2017

When President Donald Trump landed at Ben Gurion International Airport in May, a sensitive microphone on the tarmac picked up the conversation between Sarah Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister’s wife, and American first lady Melania Trump

In a social media universe where there are no barriers to entry and almost infinite amounts of competition, the content game has tilted to become a “winner take all” scenario. Since people don’t have the time to look at the 452,200 tweets sent every minute, they naturally gravitate to the things that already have social proof.

What happens in an internet minute in 2017?

By: EBR | Friday, September 8, 2017

Just a month ago, it was revealed that Facebook has more than two billion active monthly users.

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