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Traditional parties have shown they are unable to fight the populists. Their strategy has been to appropriate parts of their message and proposals. On the right Sarkozy stood in the Gaullist primaries on a platform mimicking Le Pen; on the left, Jeremy Corbyn, the British Labour leader, has embraced Brexit and adopted an anti-immigrant message. Podemos and Syriza stand with the far right in glorifying old-fashioned national sovereignty. Macron, however, recently pointed out that the only effective sovereignty in today’s world is European sovereignty; that is an open, inclusive and tolerant society.

Macron, the anti-Trump

By: EBR | Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Macron winning the French presidency would be more than just a breath of fresh air for the European Union: it would an undeniable victory of Enlightenment values against the populist threat, argues Beatriz Becerra

The EIB President said: “The Investment Plan for Europe has been a true game-changer for the Bank. We have created new products, we have reached out to new clients – 3 out of 4 are new to the Bank – and we have built new partnerships, in particular with the national promotional banks. Extending the European Fund for Strategic Investments will help Europe meet the challenges of a changing world economy.” The President warned against complacency.

EIB’s strong contribution for European growth and investment in 2016

By: N. Peter Kramer | Friday, February 3, 2017

The European Investment Bank (EIB) Group signed operations worth 83.8 billion euros supporting total investments in the order of 280 billion euros in 2016

It is also important to note that networking profiles are not forever fixed. Humans can learn and adapt. While making a move from Purist to Player is quite rare, people can make adjustments as to how they go about establishing and maintaining social relations in their work settings. Like any change, however, it takes awareness of an individual’s current state and some ideas for where it is they want to go.

How to get ahead when you hate networking

By: EBR | Thursday, February 2, 2017

Networking is important for career growth but not everyone loves it

In Parker’s view, corporate universities and business schools have different but complementary strengths, making them natural partners rather than rivals. Collaborating with CUs occurs in several stages: “The first step is to identify key players in the value chain”, Parker says. “We work with them to come up with the highest-impact curriculum, which is then tested on smaller groups of people and then, together with the corporate university, we roll it out…We take learnings from that and then we augment it and scale it.”

The future of the corporate university

By: EBR | Thursday, February 2, 2017

Phil Parker is an INSEAD Professor of Marketing and the Chaired Professor of Management Science. He is the programme director for Business Strategy for HR Leaders, an Executive Education programme at INSEAD

The freedom of individual opinion and cultural diversity, which spawns from the tolerance of the many and common minds towards the few and exceptional ones, comes at the price of having occasionally to allow abnormalities and eccentricities. When, however, the freedom to differ is limited to trivialities, then it is a mere shadow of freedom; the endurance of the establishment is not so much assessed in the insignificant matters, but in those touching the core of its status.

Our own flag

By: EBR | Wednesday, February 1, 2017

In January 1942, the West Virginia State Board of Education adopted a resolution ordering that all teachers and pupils should be required to participate daily in a flag salute ritual, as a tribute to the symbol of the nation

Hence, former US President Barack Obama included in his Athens speech some thoughts and determinations that eventually had to be loudly spoken out. In contrast with the general superficial tendency to introduce democracy as being naturally perfect and as an end in itself, even sometimes as inheritable, and in response to the sly who invoke it as panacea and as a magical solution that requires neither rationality nor honesty, nor self-criticism, Obama clarified that democracies are not happiness pills and they are not established by a divine right: we, the people, chose them because they provably promote civilization, they provably reduce wars, they provably support social justice.

The flatterers of democracy

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Discussions revolving around the success or failure of democracy are disturbingly frequent. At least, though, they are usually a pretext. In fact they try to cover up a willingness to blame the polity for a recent failure; usually a financial one

It is clear that migration needs to be well managed in order to realize its potential. In the short term migration may cost; in the long term it will pay dividends. Certainly we are not advocating for open borders. But neither are we, nor should anyone interested in putting their national economy first, be advocates of closed borders.

It’s time to restate the business case for migration

By: EBR | Monday, January 30, 2017

Two weeks ago at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, we heard again and again from private sector leaders why migration and diversity is good for business

In other cases, child information is included in the cloud by societal systems with blind understanding of the consequences. Already more than 90% of young people between the ages of six and 17 access the internet across Europe, according to the OECD data. More than 50% of children use social media by the age of 10. And nearly all children who participate in digital media and share information do so without understanding what it means for their privacy.

How can we help kids protect themselves online?

By: EBR | Friday, January 27, 2017

We are living in a renaissance period of new digital media and technologies that are reshaping the world around us. A wide and growing cross-section of the world’s population has become immersed in this hyperconnected digital world, in turn transforming the ways we communicate and interact

I urge the members of the U.N. Security Council — the body that bears primary responsibility for international peace and security — to take the first step. Specifically, I propose that a Security Council meeting at the level of heads of state adopt a resolution stating that nuclear war is unacceptable and must never be fought. I think the initiative to adopt such a resolution should come from Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin — the Presidents of two nations that hold over 90% of the world’s nuclear arsenals and therefore bear a special responsibility.

Mikhail Gorbachev: ’It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War’

By: EBR | Friday, January 27, 2017

The world today is overwhelmed with problems. Policymakers seem to be confused and at a loss

Last but not least, 100 leading businesses signed the Compact for Responsive and Responsible Leadership. The Compact was developed with the Forum’s International Business Council which will now develop a framework which will allow the measurement of a long-term approach.

10 achievements from Davos 2017

By: EBR | Monday, January 23, 2017

Our Annual Meeting is often described as a talking shop, but it is also a working meeting for dozens of different communities from all regions of the world, all ages and all sections of society.

The encouraging news is that it is possible to reduce the number of people not advancing. Labor-market practices can make a difference, as can government taxes and transfers—although the latter may not be sustainable at a time when many governments have high debt levels. For example, in Sweden, where the government intervened to preserve jobs during the global downturn, market incomes fell or were flat for only 20 percent of households, while disposable income advanced for almost everyone.

Poorer than their parents? A new perspective on income inequality

By: EBR | Monday, January 23, 2017

The real incomes of about two-thirds of households in 25 advanced economies were flat or fell between 2005 and 2014. Without action, this phenomenon could have corrosive economic and social consequences

“The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive – make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world, they are the builders of the world.

These 3 trends will define your future, says Jack Ma

By: EBR | Friday, January 20, 2017

In a one-on-one interview on the second day of Davos, Alibaba founder Jack Ma gave his take on a wide range of global issues

Reforming the economic and political system and letting the Warsaw Pact countries “do it their own way” (the Sinatra song evoked by Gorbachev) were not just deeply troubling ideas. They were also directly antithetical to the elites’ power and to the ideological legitimation of their rule.

Trump: The West’s Gorbachev?

By: EBR | Friday, January 20, 2017

Will Trump have a similarly devastating effect on democracies that Gorbachev had on Communism?

Before the election of the Parliament President, S&D candidate Gianni Pittella announced that the traditional grand coalition between his party and the center-right EPP was over and would not be restored after the vote. The initial EPP/S&D deal for the Parliament presidency terms was signed by Martin Schulz and Manfred Weber. When the EPP leader revealed the document last week, he heavily critisised Pittella for breaking it, but not Schulz.

S&D: Schulz’s departure paves the way to the left

By: EBR | Thursday, January 19, 2017

The decision of former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz to return to national politics is a “relief” for the Social Democrats’ group

Instead of constantly trying to retain control of the world, the West should learn to share power. Asians should be allowed to run the IMF and World Bank. Equally importantly, Western pundits must drop their traditional condescension when speaking about the rest. Emerging Asian entities, like China, India and ASEAN, should be treated with more respect. India should be immediately given a seat on the UN Security Council, with the UK and France stepping aside.

Yes, this is the Asian Century. But there’s still cause for Western optimism

By: EBR | Thursday, January 19, 2017

The big question of our time is a simple one: should we feel optimistic or pessimistic for the future of humanity, all 7 billion of us?

He’s on several occasions spoken out against the European Union – just a few days ago, he described it as a “vehicle for Germany”, predicting that more countries will follow Britain and leave.

5 things you’ve got wrong about Donald Trump, according to one of his closest aides

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 18, 2017

When Donald Trump was unexpectedly voted in as 45th president of the United States back in November 2016, many commentators predicted it was the beginning of the end for globalization

Uncertainties in Brussels over the future state of the European Union are directly reflected in EU-India relations. Prime Minister Modi met the leaders of Europe, President Tusk and Juncker at the EU-India Summit in Brussels, 2016. Europe is popular with Indians tourists. Efforts by Indian multinational companies, operating in industrial engineering and ICT domains, to cover European markets via quality-price competition and by providing innovative goods and services substitutes has seen mixed results due to structural shortcomings and regulatory difficulties.

India’s foreign policy increases thanks to PM Modi

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 18, 2017

How is India dealing these days, politically, and with international trade and terrorism? Since the 26th of May 2014 Narendra Modi is in charge of more than a 1,5 billion Indians. In 2019 there will be elections again in India. Who is Narendra Modi?

Investing in infrastructure was one of Trump’s important campaign issues. Legislation to spend money on the nation’s roads, bridges and airports likely won’t be unveiled until later in Spring, after Trump’s 100th day in office. But it seems there will be a big infrastructure package immediately after the first 100 days’ period. Trump has floated a $1 trillion proposal that would offer federal tax credits to private entities investing in infrastructure projects. A good idea, and top Democrats expressed already openness to working with Trump on such a proposal, considering it as one area of potential common ground with the new president.

What will happen in Trump’s first 100 days in office?

By: EBR | Friday, January 13, 2017

Topic A for business leaders worldwide is the presumed avalanche of pro-business actions about the cascade from Washington after the new Congress was sworn in early January

Trump, despite the questioning of his abilities, convinced many voters that a man who had run a corporation could run their country, thus ticking the ethos box. By connecting with the portion of the electorate that was hopping mad with Washington and the so-called “political elite”, he also had emotional reach. And it was this raw emotion that proved more powerful than logic at the ballot box.

What leaders can learn from the rise of the outsider

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Times of change and distrust create challenges and some valuable lessons for leaders

Trump didn’t waste time and responded. Unlike Kerry’s one-hour speech, Trump answered, as usual, with a couple of tweets: “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect… They used to have a great friend in the U.S., but … not anymore. The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!”

Trump just might land the deal that’s eluded so many others

By: EBR | Monday, January 9, 2017

The Obama administration’s decision to abstain, when the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 2334, denouncing Israel’s settlements, left me perplexed

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

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France remembers Bataclan attacks but knows enemy has not gone away

Just as France marks the 10th anniversary of the Bataclan massacres, another reminder has come of the permanence of the jihadist threat.

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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.