The Art of Peace at the Petit Palais
Diplomatic archives of historical and international significance – usually kept in secure concrete vaults – will be on display for the first time at Paris’ Petit Palais museum. They include a ratified…
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Dear Mr Juncker, I have a cunning plan.
Dear Monsieur Juncker, I have been thinking of you recently. With Brexit and CETA, it must seem like life is not getting any easier. Yet, as the new Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan…
EU faces €1.8 billion budget shortfall
The European Union is facing a funding shortfall of €1.8 billion in this year’s budget following the dramatic fall of the British pound since the Brexit referendum. An EU official told Chief-Exec.com…
Strange goings on at Russia Today
The UK branch of the TV channel Russia Today (RT) last week received a letter from NatWest, saying its credit facilities were being withdrawn. Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief, cast the NatWest move…
The political logic of a hard Brexit
PARIS – Little more than three months after the United Kingdom’s decision in June to leave the European Union, Brexit politics are careening out of control in the UK. An almost revolutionary…
EU to profit as banks consider their future
As the UK government seems determined to pursue a hard Brexit, banks in the City are planning to shift some operations and thousands of jobs to other European Union countries to ensure…
Topographia hibernica: Irish ponder feast or famine
The colonial mind-set will employ a cognitive dissonance of superiority before questing after another nation’s natural resources. It was no different between imperial Britain and pastoral Ireland. Giraldus Cambrensis, the Welsh ecclesiastic,…
A glimmer of something in a future that is dark
On Wednesday last week members of parliament were given a chance to debate the need for “Parliamentary Scrutiny of Leaving the EU”. The House of Commons self-assembled into an intelligently expressed, cross-party…
Deutsche Bank: death by a thousand cuts?
Deutsche Bank remains between a rock and a hard place. It has yet to persuade US authorities to lower their demand for $14 billion to settle allegations that it mis-sold mortgage-backed securities…
Good regulations
At a time when regulation in general and European regulations in particular are an easy target for derision, it should be recognised that regulations underpin the health millions of European citizens. A…