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Retour à la dette extérieure pour contrer la crise financière
Qui, quand, combien et pour quel motif ? La situation de l’Algérie face à l’endettement externe pourrait se résumer dans ces quelques questions. Experts et économistes se hasardent à dire sans craindre de se tromper que le retour à l’emprunt externe est inéluctable. Les prix du pétrole qui rechignent à ...
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USA
Renault faces emissions probe in France
French authorities are investigating carmaker Renault for suspected fraud over its diesel emissions controls. The move dented the company's share price as the global fallout spreads from revelations of emissions cheating at Volkswagen. Renault insisted that its cars are not equipped with pollution cheating software and that the company complies with all ...
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Regno Unito
Farsons' old brewhouse set for restoration
Farsons' old brewhouse in Mrieħel will soon be restored following the Planning Authority's unanimous approval for the €10 million project. The rehabilitation project covers the restoration and conversion of some 7,000 square metres of industrial space, which will include a visitor centre experience with supporting food and beverage and other retail outlets, ...
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Malta
Air Malta unions to be told Alitalia deal is off
Unions representing Air Malta employees have been summoned to a meeting with the Tourism Minister this afternoon where they are expected to be informed that the Alitalia deal is off. The General Workers Union, the cabin crew, engineers and pilots' unions will be meeting with Edward Zammit Lewis. It is not ...
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Turchia Malta
Malta and EU development bank have similar priorities - EBRD director
Malta’s economic and social priorities during its EU presidency chimed perfectly with those of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, according to EBRD director Johannes Seiringer.Addressing the press during a brief visit to Malta, Mr Seiringer said he was surprised at the similarities between the bank's focus on migration ...
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Malta
Hunters and environmentalists join forces to feed the swans
Environmentalists and hunters have agreed to join forces to ensure swans resting in Gozo are appropriately fed. BirdLife Malta, the Federation for Hunting and Conservation and St Hubert's Hunters (KSU) have agreed to manage a feeding protocol established by veterinarian Euridiyke Kovacs. The feeding will be reduced after a while to encourage ...
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Panama Malta
Konrad Mizzi's EU Energy Council role is PM's prerogative - Finance Minister
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna has declined to comment on former Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi’s appointment as chair of the EU’s Energy Council during Malta’s six-month rotating presidency.Asked about Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s decision to appoint Dr Mizzi to head the council, Prof Scicluna said the choice was Dr Muscat’s “prerogative”.“Every ...
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USA
2017 - a threat or opportunity for EM currency bonds
In 2016 emerging market (EM) hard currency bonds registered a strong performance. Bofa Merill Lynch emerging market index posted a total return of 17.3 per cent, despite the fact that investors were aware that the Federal Reserve (Fed), continued to indirectly pronounce the sanity of the US economy. In the US, the ...
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Regno Unito
Amazon rebrands London tube station, and MPs are not happy
Some UK lawmakers criticised an advertising campaign by Amazon.com yesterday which involved changing the name signs at London's Westminster underground station, where parliament is located, to 'Webminster', branding it "insulting". Amazon paid underground operator Transport for London (TfL) 390,000 pounds to change the signage at the station underneath the Houses of ...
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USA
In tearful farewell, Obama awards Biden the Medal of Freedom
At the dusk of both of their political careers, surrounded by teary friends and family, President Barack Obama on Thursday bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Joe Biden, the man he called "the finest vice president we have ever seen."The vice president winced in shock as Obama announced he was conferring the nation's ...