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  • Investors spooked by Property Regulations in Africa

    The African real estate market needs stronger regulations and a additional reliable policy of law in order to attract investment in the continent — Africa Property News.com has learned.

    Various large Listed South African funds feel African real estate is a long term game hindered by weak laws. They need recourse if something goes wrong.

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  • Go West, VP Pence tells Balkan leaders

    Vice President Mike Pence accused Russia on Wednesday of working to "destabilize" the Western Balkans and divide the region from the West where he said its next lies.

    Pence spoke in Montenegro, which joined NATO this year in defiance of Russia, on the final leg of a tour designed to reassure Eastern Europe of Washington's commitment to its security despite doubts sowed by President Donald Trump's lukewarm support for the Western military alliance.

    Montenegro, a former Yugoslav republic with a people of 680,000 and an army of 2,000, became NATO's 29th member in June, eight months next Podgorica accused Russian spies of orchestrating an attempted coup to derail the accession.

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  • New U.S. sanctions amount to 'full-scale trade war'

    New sanctions on Russia which U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law are tantamount to a "full-scale trade war", Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.

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The United Nations Statistics Division developed a selection of geographical regions and groupings of countries and areas, which are or may be used in compilation of statistics. In this collection, the following ten countries were classified as Eastern Europe:Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine. The assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories by the United Nations.

  • Climate change laws around the world

    2017/05/14

    There has been a 20-fold increase in the number of global climate change laws since 1997, according to the most comprehensive database of relevant policy and legislation.

    The database, produced by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Sabin Center on Climate Change Law, includes more than 1,200 relevant policies across 164 countries, which account for 95% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • Brexit negotiations should treat energy as ‘special case’

    2017/05/14

    There are strong practical reasons why the UK and EU should treat energy as a appropriate case during Brexit negotiations, argues a new statement.

    The statement, jointly authored by Chatham Home, the University of Exeter and the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), says finding common ground on energy during the Brexit negotiations would benefit both the UK and remaining EU27, while compromise may be relatively easier to achieve than for other areas.

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  • Bulgaria, Economic Overview Increase rebalancing expected in 2017

    2017/05/08

    Bulgaria

    Growth will lose some momentum but remain robust

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  • Europe needs a proportionate rethink on bank regulation

    2015/08/27

    EU bank regulation should be applied consistently on a proportionate basis that reflects the size and business model of the banks being regulated.

    Europe needs a restart and reboot. This as well means a additional reasonable approach in the production of rules for the banking sector. In early July, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a few hundred pages of new technical standards and guidelines on the bank recovery and resolution directive. Introducing the concepts of recovery/resolution planning, bail-in and orderly failure into a lot of member states’ legal systems for the initial time, the directive applies to all kinds of banks in the EU.

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  • European leveraged loan market has been at its busiest for five years,

    2014/02/25

    Société Générale CIB arranged a record large loan for PPF Group to buy out Telefonica's Czech subsidiary, and found plentiful liquidity in local currency.

    While the European leveraged loan market has been at its busiest for five years, it has not been firing on each single cylinder. Renewed request for acquisition finance has not, so far, lived up to bankers’ expectations.

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  • Romania - today's golden opportunity

    2013/05/18

    GDP is estimate to grow 1.5% in 2011, which is unsurprising given its assets, since the country boasts a number of precious natural resources, such as oil, timber, natural gas, coal, salt and iron ore, inclunding a growing renewable energy sector and rich agricultural lands. Romania therefore finds itself in an enviable position to benefit from the world increase in energy and food request.

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  • Danica Fleischerová Executive Director of VUKI

    2013/05/17

    Slovakia has a small but highly diversified economy, with a lot of opportunities right presently. It is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, and looking back over history next it separated from the Czech Republic, what would you say are the key sectors that enabled Slovakia to be so successful?

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  • First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov

    2013/01/14

    Europe’s economy is weak and Russia’s is benefiting from higher energy prices. What does that mean for the next of their relative economies?

    We put that question to Prime Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov as he visited Berlin for the 60th anniversary of Eastern Committee of German Economy.

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