Evgeniya Khilji | Tensions between “Russians” and “others” can be observed more closely in Putin’s Russia’s large cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, where the concentration of legal and illegal immigrants is high. Ethnic Russians feel threatened by the large numbers of incoming ‘visitors’.
Presseurop.eu | By Annelien De Greef | For a long time, prawns were all that Greenland was famous for. However, the melting ice caps mean that natural resources are there for the taking. This development is both a curse and a blessing and one that puts the Danes in a difficult situation.
Our welfare depends on finding more affordable production systems, too, because it frees capital and human workforce that can be used in other fields. This is how an economy improves.
BARCELONA | By CaixaBank Research | Brazil’s GDP grows by a disappointing 1% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2012. Inflation fails to moderate and remains at 5.5%, above the central bank’s target.
By Eberhard Rhein | When introducing new energy systems, policy makers should pay more attention to a balanced development between production and consumption.
MADRID | By JLM Campuzano, Citigroup analyst | The World Economic Forum hosted in Davos these days focused its debates on how reliable is the economic recovery, central banks and currency exchange.
BARCELONA | Maintaining growth is crucial to continue reducing debt and boosting the recovery in employment. The US unemployment rate falls to 7.7% thanks to the reduction in the labour force.
Public spending can be cut down particularly when there is growth and economy expands. One has only to look at the US’ GDP to learn a powerful lesson: austerity untimely implemented does more harm than good.
China’s growth for 2012 was released by mid-January: an overall growth of a 7.8% with a slight increase of 0.1 points for the last quarter, topping a 7.9%. The widely expected figure was the lowest since 1999. But is this a negative or a positive sign?
Why has gas prices in Europe escalated up so much more than in the US? Why should taxpayers fill the gap when politicians play with green magic that turns unaffordable? Renewable energy sounds right but costs should be explained.