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  • Tuesday, November 14th 2017 - 00:01 UTC

    Japan’s Demographic Lessons for Europe

    With real output having risen by only about 15% since 2000, or less than 1% per year, Japan easily seems the least dynamic of the worlds’ major economies.

    By Daniel Gros (*) - Demography is not destiny, at least not entirely. Over centuries, policy can affect fertility decisions, and migration can transform a country, as the experience of the United States shows. Over shorter time horizons, however, demographic trends must be taken as given, and can have a profound impact on growth.

  • Monday, November 13th 2017 - 09:30 UTC

    Prince Charles leads Remembrance Sunday ceremony while the Queen looks on

    The heir of the British throne lays the first wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday

    Queen Elizabeth watched on for the first time in her 65-year reign as Prince Charles led Remembrance Sunday commemorations at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last month it was announced by Buckingham Palace that Queen Elizabeth asked the Prince of Wales, the heir to the throne, to take on the symbolic duty for the country to honor the country’s war dead.

  • Monday, November 13th 2017 - 09:23 UTC

    EU working on a plan for the possible collapse of Brexit negotiations

    Barnier made the statement in an interview with French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche days after giving the UK a two-week deadline to clarify key issues.

    The European Union's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, says he is planning for the possible collapse of Brexit negotiations with the UK. Barnier was talking to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche days after giving the UK a two-week deadline to clarify key issues.

  • Monday, November 13th 2017 - 09:14 UTC

    Theresa May hosts “business summit” with EU/UK organizations

    Business leaders will meet Mrs. May at No 10, as well as Business Sec. Greg Clark, Brexit Secretary David Davis and Treasury Economic Secretary Stephen Barclay,

    European business leaders will meet UK Prime Minister Theresa May later on Monday to voice concerns about the future of UK-EU trade. Experts from groups including the CBI and Business-Europe will stress the need for a transitional deal that preserves the status quo after Brexit.

  • Monday, November 13th 2017 - 08:43 UTC

    EU and Mercosur “very close” to reaching an accord, says top European official

    ”We’re that close to having a new trade accord between EU and Mercosur,” EC Commissioner Jyrki Katainen said, holding his index and thumb slightly apart.

    The European Union and Mercosur are close to concluding a free trade accord after decades of fitful talks, an EU official said. “We’re that close to having a new association and trade agreement between EU and Mercosur,” European Commissioner for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Jyrki Katainen said, holding his index finger and thumb just slightly apart.

  • Monday, November 13th 2017 - 07:17 UTC

    Venezuela summons bond holders to a creditors' meeting in Caracas

    “Once again, we invite investors to register their participation in this meeting”, who is also the finance boss of state oil company PDVSA Simon Zerpa said

    Venezuela's foreign debt renegotiation committee will meet with creditors at 2 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Monday at the government's “White Palace” in downtown Caracas, the finance minister said on Saturday.

  • Monday, November 13th 2017 - 06:44 UTC

    Rajoy campaigns in Catalonia and calls on the silent majority to convert voice in vote

    Defending his decision in Barcelona, Rajoy said he had “exhausted all roads” after the Catalan government's unilateral declaration of independence last month

    Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy has said regional elections next month in Catalonia will help end “separatist havoc” in the northeastern region. Rajoy addressed a campaign event on Sunday on his first visit since imposing direct rule on the region a fortnight ago.

  • Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 12:30 UTC

    Falklands ice hockey team in international tournament in Costa Rica

    Costa Rica will be hosting the first Castillo International Ice Hockey Tournament with the participation of a home team, and three international sides, including one form the Falkland Islands. The competition is scheduled to take place at the Castillo Country Club in San Rafael de Heredia, on 18/19 November.

  • Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 09:15 UTC

    The Great October Revolution

    Bolshevism ended horribly: first, civil war and famine, then three decades of lies, oppression and mass murder - Stalin, the Great Purge, the gulag

    By Gwynne Dyer - China Mieville, a novelist I much admire, has published a history of the October Revolution to mark its hundredth anniversary (which is actually on 7 November, since the Russians were still using the Julian calendar in 1917). It had an unusual effect on me. It made me question whether I was right about the utter futility of that revolution.

  • Friday, November 10th 2017 - 21:11 UTC

    Brexit has a date and will be written into law: 11pm GMP 29 March 2019

    The amendment enshrining Brexit day in law will be considered by MPs when the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill returns to the Commons next week. (Pic Anygator.com)

    The date of Brexit will be written into law as Theresa May warned Tory rebels that the process of leaving the European Union will not be derailed. Amendments to legislation going through Parliament will spell out that the UK’s membership of the EU will end at 11pm GMT, midnight in Brussels, on 29 March 2019.