Well-being and health : prevention is better than cure
By: Marc-André Raetzo | Monday, January 25, 2010
Chek-ups are being done on healthy people on a regular basis to make sure that no illness has incurred since any previous one. The notion of risk arises. The individual is not sick but may be so in the future.
Big firms are readying to splash out on takeovers and expansion
By: The Economist | Friday, January 22, 2010
What a difference a year makes. At the start of 2009 many companies were obsessed with scraping together enough cash to survive, and even the blue-chips were cutting costs where they could, having had a nasty shock when the capital markets seized up the previous autumn.
Greece will fix itself from inside the eurozone
By: The Financial Times | Friday, January 22, 2010
In recent months, some commentators have argued that Europe’s single currency project is destined to become unstuck. According to this line of reasoning, the fiscal crisis in Greece is unfailingly pushing towards an exit from its immutable fixed exchange rate arrangement within the eurozone.
The crisis as chance
By: EBR | Friday, January 22, 2010
If we are asking ourselves, whether tourism in times of an economic downturn is threatened or whether it presents us with an opportunity, I can personally say that it is an opportunity for all of our future actions.
The dollar is the worst international currency, except for all the others
By: McKinsey Quarterly | Friday, January 22, 2010
The international currency of choice, the dollar, is under the control of a single country, a worrisome arrangement. Even worse, this country has been running huge external deficits for more than a decade and is now the world’s single largest debtor.
Schumpeter: Making a success of failure
By: The Economist | Thursday, January 14, 2010
The American model has seldom looked so tarnished. America’s unemployment rate is 10%. Soup kitchens are doing a flourishing business in New York and other great cities. Companies that were once a byword for swashbuckling entrepreneurialism have bitten the dust.
Google's about turn in China
By: BBC News | Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Google has responded to what it terms 'a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure' aimed at getting access to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists by announcing its desire to stop censoring search results on its Google.cn website.
In the midst of winter alpine tourism, Rodi Kratsa asks the European Commission on actions for dealing with the impact of climate change on alpine areas
By: EBR | Friday, January 8, 2010
Only a few days after the failure of the widely discussed UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the Vice President of the European Parliament, posed a question to the European Commission raising the issue of the impact of climate change on winter tourism.
Making the most of Corporate Social Responsibility
By: McKinsey Quarterly | Wednesday, December 30, 2009
For companies that see CSR as an opportunity to strengthen the business, the big challenge is execution. Smart partnering can provide a practical way forward. Too often, executives have viewed corporate social responsibility (CSR) as just another source of pressure or passing fad.
The 5 Most Influential Bankers Of All Time
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Banking is at the base of our financial system. Financial meltdowns, like the Crash of 1929 and the 2008 subprime mortgage and credit crisis, make this abundantly clear. When banks fail to function properly, the economy follows, and like many elements of finance, banking has evolved over the years.
Greece: Swift Action on Economic Reforms
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Prime Minister George Papandreou pledged that his government will take swift action to promoting bold reforms in the country with the aim to restoring confidence in the economy and calm markets' fears over the country's ballooning debt and fiscal deficit.
Greece is not the next Iceland!
By: EBR | Monday, December 14, 2009
The Greek finance minister, George Papaconstantinou, has defended the country's position in the eurozone. Greece's deficit has risen to more than 12% of national output this year, which is above the EU limit of 3%.
Greening the Brown Economy
By: EBR | Monday, December 14, 2009
The combined effects of financial crisis, climate change and energy concerns mean that we must overhaul our ideas on governance and harness public opinion, argues Jacqueline McGlade, executive director of the European Environment Agency.
Oman: Through the eyes of a world famous explorer
By: Mikael Strandberg | Monday, December 14, 2009
Oman! I have just been back in Sweden for three days and I wish with the full strength of my heart that I was back in this spectacular country. What then is it I miss and long for?
Women’s Forum - Think again, think ahead
By: Julia Harrison | Monday, December 14, 2009
What a year? On its 5th birthday this year the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society faced a major task – to interest sponsors and participants in gender diversity and a three day conference in Deauville at a time when the world was going crazy around us...
Jean-Claude Trichet: Shaping the future of global financial market regulation
By: EBR | Monday, November 30, 2009
"We need to reach agreement on the overall level of capital in the financial system compared to pre-crisis levels, building on past and recent experience including national stress-testing exercises..."
EU set to extend holiday travel protection
By: EBR | Thursday, November 26, 2009
Millions of travellers who book holiday ‘packages’ with combinations of flights, hotels, car rentals etc on the internet or in the high-street look set to receive tougher financial protection if things go wrong, under plans put out for consultation by the European Commission.
European labour markets deeply hit by crisis, but more resilient than expected
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 24, 2009
The current crisis is taking its toll on EU labour markets, reversing most of the employment growth achieved since 2000, according to the 2009 Employment in Europe Report published on November 24. Employment policies must focus on preparing for the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Avantis: Effective Cross - Border Cooperation
By: Christos Trikoukis | Monday, November 23, 2009
On Friday, 20 of November a delegation of over 50 journalists from the "Association of European Journalists (AEJ)" visited the "AVANTIS" Science and Business Park located on German-Dutch borders.
GDP in the OECD area rose by 0.8% in the third quarter of 2009
By: EBR | Monday, November 23, 2009
Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) in the OECD area rose by 0.8% in the third quarter of 2009, up from 0% in the previous quarter, according to preliminary estimates.
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