Hochtief, FCC land Riga Airport upgrade
Consortium around Hochtief to upgrade and extend airport infrastructure by 2014. The contract has been valued at €79,5 million.
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Emerging Europe is no brighter spot
By CaixaBank research | In emerging Europe, has the slowdown touched bottom? The bulk of the evidence available suggests that it hasn’t and that the fourth quarter will be worse than the third.
Brazil, China pull Heathrow airport to new passenger number record
LONDON | 5.6 million passengers passed through Heathrow in December, a record for the month and up 2.0% on December 2011. This took the number of passengers for 2012 to almost 70 million, the highest ever for a calendar year at Heathrow, and an increase of 0.9% compared with 2011.
The Irish economy bets on fiscal green
Presseurop.eu | By Sara Ficocelli | After two years of radical austerity the Irish economy is going through an upswing, thanks to new revenue the state is collecting from renewable energy and from taxing fossil fuels and rubbish.
European government borrowing set to fall 7pc in 2013, says Fitch
LONDON | Fitch Ratings noted that, in spite of the slow progression, European government debt volume should not worry investors in the new year.
Gujarat’s economy: India’s growth engine
The election in Gujarat will decide India’s economic future.
The Draghi speech in six charts
MADRID | JL Martínez Campuzano, of Citigroup in Spain, dissects yesterday’s speech of Mario Draghi. Some lights seem to be shedding hope over the eurocrisis, but it is a hard work in process.
Telefonica’s Julio Linares: “Spain has regained 50pc of productivity”
MADRID | By revistaconsejeros.com | “Which positive signs? Well, for instance, in 2009 and 2011 our exports grew a 36% what constitutes a biggest percentage than that of Germany, Italy or France.”
Danger! A radical eurozone
By Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank | “The greatest danger, unless something is done, is that social tensions scale and political radicalism grows in Europe, with unemployment pushing young people against the institutions and the private sector telling the public sector that enough is enough.”
We still need a Banking Union in 2013
By Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, XTB analyst | The toxic assets aren’t just linked to real estate and construction companies, but to sovereign debt holdings, too. Which is why, without a Banking Union the whole euro nightmare will repeat itself.