Новости за 08.01.2018

The European Commission said the EC has approved, under the Merger Regulation, the acquisition of joint control of Idesamgar SL and Idesamgar SL 1, which will hold nine wind farm projects in Spain, by Mirova-Eurofideme 3, a company based in France, and US conglomerate General Electric. Mirova-Eurofideme 3, owned by Banque Populaire Caisse d’Epargne, is

Jordan’s foreign minister and the head of the Arab League said they would push for an international resolution on naming Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital. This follows the US move to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s. Arab states will push for the international community to recognise East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, Jordan’s

Finland’s interior ministry has warned a skills shortage is one of the key challenges to growth and internationalisation. To this end, the Finnish government unveiled its policy programme for promoting employment-based immigration to Finland. “Competition for international talent has become so fierce that it is necessary to ensure a smooth residence permit process in addition

French president Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China this week is the first by a major European leader since the Communist party’s recent leadership congress, and Macron, profiting from Trump’s incoherences and from the situations of blockage in which Angela Merkel and Theresa May find themselves, will use it to try to secure greater access for French companies. In

The UK is not special, in the sense that its workplace reveals a double digit gap in the salaries paid out to men and women in most companies. In some cases the results are appalling. EasyJet has a 52% pay gap between men and women. The betting company Ladbrokes a 33% pay gap between lads

“We won’t go after them”, said France's Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet. French jihadists who joined the Islamic State (IS) group and were captured in Syria can be tried at courts in the self-declared Kurdish autonomous region there, she said. "We will take care of the people who will come back on the French territory. However, we

The Belgian Minister of Defence has asked Google to blur the aerial images of the Kleine Brogel Air Base, in Flanders, where US nuclear weapons and a number of F-16 war planes are known to be based, but the military installations are still visible on Google Earth. The ACMP-CGPM military syndicate is worried about it. “People

A coalition between Italy’s main left- and right-wing parties cannot be ruled out if no clear winner emerges from the upcoming general election, said the country’s economy minister, Pier Carlo Padoan. In an interview with Sunday’s Corriere della Sera, the minister said he expected that none of the three main parties – the left-wing Partito

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, whose country currently holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, has vowed to improve ties between Turkey and the EU. “Turkey is the EU’s largest neighbour and has the largest army in the region,” Borisov said at the reopening ceremony of a historic Bulgarian church in Istanbul on January 7. Borisov

Former EU competition Commissioner and World Trade Organization director general, the Irish Peter Sutherland died on Sunday aged 71. Praising his international contribution to business, politics and human rights, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Sunday described Sutherland as “a giant of Irish, European and international public life”. The Jesuit-educated barrister, who also served as

Ankara is reaching out to Europe, beginning from the Franco-German axis.   In a carefully choreographed diplomatic move, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Emmanuel Macron on Friday, while the foreign minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu followed on Saturday with a meeting with his German counterpart, Sigmar Gabriel. In a one-day visit in Paris, Erdogan

Talks for a third grand coalition are restarting in Germany between the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD). Political parties have failed to reach an agreement for the formation of a government since September 2017. That is a record for Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel met last week with SPD leader Martin Schulz, following

Deutsche Bank (DB) projects a loss of no less than €1.5bn for 2018 as a result of the recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of the Trump administration. The US has reviewed corporate rates taxes from 35% to 21%. Crucially for DB, companies are no longer able to set their previous losses against tax. DB was one of the hardest hit companies