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10/03/2021 - 19:14 From the blog 10/03/2021 – HR/VP Blog – Recently, Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis presented a new trade strategy at the College of the European Commission. EU trade policy can be an important foreign policy instrument: we should leverage our trading power to promote EU interests and values and build a fairer and more sustainable form of globalisation.     On 17 February, the European Commission approved a new EU trade strategy, prepared by my colleague Exec...

India on Friday condemned a report by a U.S.-based think-tank that dropped its status from free to "partly free" saying the claims made by Freedom House are "misleading, incorrect and misplaced". Freedom House in its report https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2021/democracy-under-siege released on Wednesday titled "Freedom under Seige," said India appears to have abandoned its potential to serve as a global democratic leader under Hindu nationalist Prime ...

India on Friday condemned a report by a U.S.-based think-tank that dropped its status from free to "partly free" saying the claims made by Freedom ...

The British budget tries to overcome the damage to the economy caused by Covid-19 - and to a lesser extent by Brexit.

A 48 year old North Corkman has been given an opportunity to come up with €5,000 for donation to charity or face going to jail after he was caught running a cannabis growhouse that he took over when he evicted some Eastern Europeans who had set up the operation on his property. Carpenter John Sheahan pleaded guilty when he was arraigned at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to both possessing cannabis for sale or supply and to cultivating cannabis without a licence at his home at Ardglass, Charlevil...

(Unsplash / MANILA BULLETIN) DILG Undersecretary and spokesperson Jonathan E. Malaya noted that the DILG joined the call to the Senate and the House of Representatives of five respected business groups that collectively expressed their strong support for the initiatives of the Duterte administration to open the Philippine economy as a means for economic recovery and sustainability. “The affirmation given by these business groups shows that government policies are on the right track and those ...

February 21, 2021 Happy Year of the Ox! Last Friday, China and a number of other Asian countries celebrated the Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival. In pre-pandemic years, the Lunar New Year has been an opportunity for individuals and families to travel and visit loved ones. Millions of Chinese people took as many as 3 billion trips in early 2019, representing the largest annual human migration in history. As you might imagine, things look a little different in February 2021, mo...

  Recommending and discussing five policies to protect and support the local companies in Kuwait Kuwait is the fourth richest country based on per capita in the world as the GDP per capita of Kuwait touched to $69,700 in 2017 (Kennedy 2016). The inflation rate in Kuwait is 2.5% and the unemployment rate in Kuwait was 2.1% in the year 2017. Most of the industries in Kuwait are associated with petrochemicals, petroleum, shipbuilding, cement and food processing and desalination and construction m...

Thirty five sellers, Cloudtail one of them, accounted for two-thirds of Amazon's sales in India, according to a Reuters report.

Mr. President, review your team and apply Strategy February 1, 2021 An open letter to the Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa Open Letter: Not much has been done, since the inception of the so-called new dispensation. Now that you have lost key pillars, the likes of Biggie Matiza, Ellen Gwaradzimba, and the coup announcer, S.B Moyo, who was preferred by many as a stabilizer in the regime, you need to sit down and make a review, using the citizen’s perspective and contributions from the gene...