ECOWAS, a light in the dark continent

Who follows the African politics was certainly pleased by the military and diplomatic intervention in Gambia performed by ECOWAS in early 2017. Code name: Restore democracy. After the defeat in the December election, the incumbent president Yahya Jammeh, who led the country for 22 years of terror and repression, refuse to relinquish power. This opens […]

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Germany and the Euro Manipulation

In late January Peter Navarro, the Head of Trump’s new National Trade Council, said the euro’s low valuation was giving Germany an edge over the US and its EU partners. He described the single currency as an “implicit Deutsche Mark”. We can observe, from the chart provided by Yahoo-Finance that the Euro has fallen nearly […]

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Brexit: UK heading into trouble

“Britain could not be half-in, half-out of the EU”, the UK Prime Minister Theresa May said on January 17, leading the negotiations to a ‘Hard Brexit’. Through the speech, May confirmed that Britain would leave the EU single market, which guarantees the free movement of goods, services and people within the block, since her first […]

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European Reflation: All that Glitters ain’ t Gold

Annual inflation in the Eurozone has surged to its highest levels since 2013. Having already hit 1.1% in December 2017, it has now jumped to 1.8% in January 2017, according to Eurostat. Despite the consumer price growth acceleration, the European Central Bank insists that the aggressive monetary stimulus must continue. Draghi’ s attention is focused on […]

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