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Revolutions are Revolting
Revolutions are rarely what they appear to be. There was precious little Russian participation in the Russian Revolution. Let’s instead call it what it was; the hijacking of a nation by mostly non-Russian armed insurrectionists bankrolled by Wall Street....
Don’t Panic, Don’t Panic Just Yet
Channel 4 TV was not irresponsible when it set out a ‘what if’ scenario should the collapse of the euro in an EU member state trigger a chain reaction leading to the currency’s collapse. Certainly it is speculative but that is healthy. Speculation...
Euro crisis: It is time for European debt restructuring. Will Europe dare to undertake it?
Euro-zone weights a new plan to face the crisis, which will be discussed during the Brussels European Summit, and for which Europe expects to receive support from their G-20 colleagues, in the next Group meeting, which will take place on November 3 and...
Dark Clouds over the Global Economy
By Raul de Sagastizabal The downgrade of American bonds along with the problems of the European over-indebtedness increases the fear of a recession or a sharp slowdown in the global economy. Much of the market turmoil responds to the fear of investors,...
The Scramble for Europe
By Raúl de Sagastizabal The impact of Chinese purchases and investments in Europe The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a think-tank founded in 2007, has published a report titled “The Scramble for Europe” on China’s “game-changing”...
Europe on the brink of collapse
By Raul de Sagastizabal Europe is on the verge of collapsing and the world is again in the quagmire, the reason being Europe, rather than just Greece, is the planet’s soft belly, and the impact of Europe’s eventual downfall would make itself felt...
Tackling Financial Exclusion in Europe
The term financial exclusion was first coined in 1993 by geographers studying the impact bank closures had on those left unable to access basic banking services. During the 1990s there was a significant increase in research focusing on people experiencing...
Putin Proposes Trade-Free Zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok
In a commentary published in Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed a stronger integration of economic ties between the European Union and Russia that would ideally lead to establishing a free-trade zone stretching...
The Thin Blue Line is Broken
Student and public demonstrations are nothing new but they achieve significance during periods of societal change. Ordinarily they are safety valves when public frustrations build up a head of steam. The protest over, the placard-bearing crowds are...
