VALENCIA | Mètode magazine | By Lucía Sapiña | The mass media play a major role in defining public attitudes towards cancer: unfortunately, the media coverage of cancer is quite frequently of poor quality, an Time was a case in point.
MADRID | By Tania Suárez | Director of financial analysis at Profim EAFI, Jose Maria Luna Morales, argues that austerity measures in the euro zone were “necessary” but adds that “some privileges of many public institutions can still be reduced”. He also notes that although “Europe still may suffer months of stagnation”, that does not imply “a long period of stagnation'” for the EZ as a whole.
MADRID | Reigning in the public sector under austerity plans isn’t always good for the private sector, at least not today and not when a country has lost his monetary policy sovereignty.
MADRID | By Juan de la Cruz Martín Rozas, Crédito y Caución | Spain contributes with 1.7% to the global exchange of goods trade, after Germany, France, Italy or the United Kingdom. However, the growth experienced by Spanish exports in recent years, including 2012, is the highest of the European economies.
MADRID | Economic growth is compatible with high debt, particularly when your central bank can make fears of default vanish and interest rates can be contained.
By Ioannis Michaletos, associate of the Institute for Defense & Security Analysis in Athens | The situation may eventually lead to another peripheral war against groups of guerilla and terrorist forces, coupled with a general instability regarding energy prices in Europe.
The size of what is owed could reach up to $3.2 trillion or $1.6 trillion at best. These figures are equivalent to between 20 percent to 40 percent of the country’s GDP.
LONDON | By economist Tim Vlandas | Southern European countries such as Italy and Greece and European liberal market economies such as the UK and Ireland exhibit increases in their replacement rates.
Terrorism is back high on the US national agenda. But how much more can America spend on security? In the new budget submitted by Obama to Congress, Homeland Security would receive a total of 39 billion in discretionary funding. This is just peanuts compared to the total Defense budget, which would reach a total of 857 trillion dollars.
MADRID | What is important is that public debt drops and the economy recovers. And to achieve that, Japan has chosen the opposite strategy than the eurozone’s authorities.