EU urges US Congress to preserve Iran nuclear deal Trump threatened
Foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said moves to dismantle agreement would complicate diplomacy with North [...]
October 2017
Cryptocurrency craze wins over Harry Redknapp – but gets red card from others
Ex-football boss is ‘proper excited’ about something dismissed by IMF, bankers and economists. The trouble with these cryptocurrencies is that expert opinion is so divided. In the sceptical camp, you have the likes of Kenneth Rogoff, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund; Jamie Dimon, the [...]
We should stop tech firms from screening extremist videos
Internet giants have a duty to help counter-terrorism efforts. In response to the plethora of recent terrorist attacks, Europe has undertaken a step change in the way it tackles terrorism and its bedfellow, extremism. In one notable example, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, last week called for people who repeatedly [...]
Russian troll factory paid US activists to help fund protests during election
Russian trolls posing as Americans made payments to genuine activists in the US to help fund protest movements on socially divisive issues, according to a new investigation by a respected Russian media [...]
Romania shrugs off label of Europe’s poor man as economy booms
Since it joined the EU in 2007, government economic measures and communist-era educational excellence have spurred rapid [...]
Mario Mantrisi Announced as New General Manager at LuxFLAG
The Luxembourg Finance Labelling Agency (LuxFLAG) has announced that Mario Mantrisi will become General Manager as of 1 January 2018; he will be taking over from Annemarie Arens, who has elected to pursue other personal [...]
Trump’s biggest enemy isn’t the media. It’s poor people
Trump’s most dramatic move yet to dismantle Obamacare will punish many of the poor people who voted for him and the rest who [...]
Brexit: cabinet split as Amber Rudd calls no-deal ‘unthinkable’
Rudd dismisses idea of not getting agreement at least covering security, after David Davis says no deal remains an [...]
Saudi Aramco denies it is planning to shelve $2 trillion listing
The kingdom’s oil company dismisses reports it could drop huge international float in favour of private stake [...]
UK need to cooperate with the EU on security after Brexit
Our negotiations with Brussels must address issues such as information sharing and cyber security. The government’s 2015 strategic defence and security review identified four major threats and challenges to UK national security: terrorism and extremism; state-based threats; cyber threats and the erosion of the [...]