Don’t just blame austerity, says policy adviser Manos: Greece’s welfare state has for years been the worst in the OECD at tackling poverty. And it isn’t alone. Estonia, Malta and the Czech Republic have similar levels of food poverty as Greece’s among households with dependent children.
China has started its leadership transition. The successors Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang face the great challenges posed by the economic model they’ve inherited. Amid a severe economic slowdown, fresh figures released in October suggest that Chinese economy is nevertheless stabilizing.
MADRID | Carlos Díaz Güell draws a guide to understand the current situation of financial and credit institutions in Spain, and what can happen next.
Prof. Krzysztof Rybiński, rector at the Vistula Finance and Business Academy in Warsaw and ex-deputy governor of the National Bank of Poland: “If we lower card payment commissions, will supermarket chains lower their prices? As more information on this is available, I have become less and less convinced.”
CEO of Wayra Global, Telefónica Digital’s accelerator programme, Gonzalo Martín-Villa, knows what Europe needs to arise its own Silicon Valley.
From Presseurope.eu | For Italian writer Claudio Magris, the only way to dispel the dismay prompted by the European economic and political crisis is to create a strong, decentralised and respected federal state.
The prime ministers of France and Portugal announce further adjustments for 2013, as Spain did before. But, analysts at CaixaBank note, the lack of detail isn’t encouraging for investors or other euro zone partners, despite the support the ECB promises.
BEIJING | New Chinese leadership will have to to engineer a new decade of reforms without endangering the livelihood of the Communist Party. Economic slowdown urges a new economic model that fosters domestic consumption and innovation with the goal to ensure sustainable growth.
Democrats just took again the White House for the next four years, but President Barack Obama-starstruck Europe must face the facts: it is no longer considered a strategic priority or asset by the United States.
Over the last month, unemployment in Catalonia grew by 2.19%, while a year ago, in October 2011, it grew by 2.43%.