• Turchia

    European Parliament warns Turkey over ‘backsliding’ of democracy

    The European Parliament sent a stern warning to EU membership candidate Turkey on April 14, accusing the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government of “backsliding” on democracy and the rule of law

  • Turchia

    Minister reveals details about giant infrastructure projects in Turkey

    Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communication Minister Binali Yıldırım has updated the status of a number of giant infrastructure projects across Turkey, noting these projects will make a great contribution to the country’s economy in an exclusive interview with daily Hürriyet

  • Egitto Turchia

    Signs of Turkey-Egypt reconciliation at summit

    Tense relations between Turkey and Egypt could soon give way to reconciliation as Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry attended the 13th Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Istanbul and handed the term presidency to Turkey

  • Panama

    Who next?

    Even paradise has its laws THE travails of Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm from which a trove of documents about offshore firms it had helped create was recently leaked, intensified on April 12th, when prosecutors raided its head office. But as the firm defends itself, campaigners for financial transparency are ...

  • Argentina Panama

    The key’s in Sin City

    WITH numerous governments already announcing probes into the “Panama papers” and others preparing to do so, Mossack Fonseca, the law firm from which the hoard of documents about offshore companies was leaked, will be receiving lots of inquiries in the coming months. Until now, getting information on clients of law ...

  • Russia

    Putin’s right-hand woman

    ELVIRA NABIULLINA’S first encounter with capitalism came during her university days, when she enrolled in a course called “Critique of Western Economic Theory”. It was an unusual start for a modern central banker. These days she embodies another contradiction. Russia’s economy has been held back for years by corruption and ...

  • USA

    System says slow

    IS THERE a global economic crisis on the horizon? Probably not. Is the world in danger of falling into recession? Not soon. Yet the IMF’s latest update of its forecasts is nevertheless resolutely downbeat. Speaking this week in Washington, DC, its chief economist, Maurice Obstfeld, outlined yet another downward revision ...

  • Cina

    The pits

    Marching on “MAKE No Mistake: The Age of Coal Marches On”. So reads a headline on the website of “Advanced Energy for Life”, an advertising campaign led by Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private coal company, whose flair for public-relations guff looks boundless. No amount of image-scrubbing could help it on ...

  • Camerun Costa D'Avorio

    Virtual headaches

    IN A DIRTY warehouse in an industrial district of Abidjan, a few entrepreneurs are trying to create a version of Amazon for Africans. At one end, dozens of workers sit at desks making phone calls and confirming orders. At the other end sit boxes and boxes of deliveries, waiting to ...

  • Ghana Kenya Etiopia Nigeria

    Coming up roses

    Heading for a Russian wedding AROUND THE EDGES of Lake Naivasha, under the shadow of a dormant volcano, Mt Longonot, one of Kenya’s most successful export businesses of recent years has become established. All around the lake, and off dirt roads that lead from it, are acres and acres of plastic ...