Foreign Direct Investments: the Asian flurry
The Asian – Pacific region is confirmed as the leading destination of the FDI streams globally. Both the last UNCTAD World Investment Report and the FDI Report have highlighted this […]
Category Archives: International relations
Iran: land of the opportunities waiting for the end of the sanctions
The Italian government has just organized a massive two-days business event in Teheran with its Vice Minister of the Economic Development, together with ICE – Italian Trade Agency and the […]
USA-EU partnership: the first round is over
EU and U.S. have just concluded the first round of TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) negotiations last July 12th in Whashington D.C. The working groups met in a plenary […]
Stars and stripes temptations: the euro-atlantic partnership
The fate of the integration between European Union and the United States is getting more interesting every day. While the economic stagnation and the new wave of euro-skepticism and populism […]
EU-JAPAN free trade agreement: threats and opportunities
Yesterday in Bruxelles, Japan and EU representatives ended the first round of negotiations for the free trade agreement launched last month, just a year after the formal agreement with the […]
BREXIT: a knot hard to loosen
Brexit appeared in the foggy horizon of the European path, after the concerns for a Euro meltdown or the strong efforts (and high social costs) to avoid a Grexit. No […]
China: leadership in transition
Finally, on November 8th, the XVIII Chinese Communist Party Congress started, with more than 2.270 delegates from all over the country. The delay was allegedly due to the underground tactics […]
China: falling over while climbing the pyramid
At the end of September, a detailed dossier published by Xinhua, Chinese official press agency, reported worldwide the spectacular fall of mr. Bo Xilai, former member of the Politburo expelled […]
Should Mr. Assange comply with the authorities requests?
J. Assange, WikiLeaks founder, has been staying in the Ecuador Embassy offices in London for several says until today, to escape the arrest warrant disposed by Swedish authorities and executed […]
Valerio Sold Out 