Author: synergia
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Hungary against EU’s Immigration Policies
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that a break-up of the European Union would be inevitable due to the imposition of pro-immigration policies. Since the 1950s, many nations in Africa have suffered civil wars and ethnic strife, thus generating a massive number of refugees…
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ECB’s new stimulus package
The European Central Bank said it will offer more cheap loans to banks and keep interest rates at a record low for a longer period as a weakening economy derails its plan to withdraw stimulus. The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank for the euro and administers a monetary policy of the Eurozone…
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Erdogan confirms S-400 deal
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke his silence over a U.S. threat to punish Turkey with sanctions should it buy an advanced Russian S-400 missile-defence system, saying the purchase is a “done deal.” One of Turkey’s most important international relationships has been with the United States since the end of the Second…
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Is Japan in a recession?
The Japanese government downgraded its assessment of a key indicator of economic trends, suggesting Japan may have already entered a recession rather than marking its longest growth phase since the end of World War II, as previously believed. A Recession is a business cycle contraction when there is a general slowdown in…
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EU urges tariff cuts
The European Union’s chief trade negotiator urged President Donald Trump to stop imposing tariffs on the bloc if he wants the EU to help the United States pressure China to abide by rules governing the global economy. The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 28-member states that are located primarily in…
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Phillip Morris circumvents investment ban
Phillip Morris International Inc. (PMI) has been paying for the manufacturing costs of Marlboro cigarettes in India circumventing a nine-year-old ban on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the tobacco industry. Philip Morris International Inc. is an American multinational cigarette…
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Zuckerberg changes Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg has pinned the future of Facebook on a shift from its historic mission to make the world more “open and connected”, saying that “privacy-focused” communications were becoming more important than open platforms. Facebook, a social media and social networking site, was launched by Mark….
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May’s plan to avoid “Hard border”
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s government outlined steps to develop technology to keep the Irish border open after Brexit even if Britain is unable to negotiate a trade deal with the European Union. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union, stunning Europe and the world in general. The EU employs…
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Radicals surge in Thai election preparations
The emergence of the Pandin Dharma Party to contest the March 24 election points to the rise of a fringe of Thai society that is at odds with the royalist-military establishment over religion and expresses growing antipathy to Islam by portraying it as a threat. Thailand is a country at the centre of the …..
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Microplastic scourge spreads
According to new studies by the University of Exeter, microplastic pollution spans the world, showing contamination in UK’s lake and rivers, in groundwater in the US, along the Yangtze river in China & the coast of Spain. Primary microplastics are any plastic fragments or particles that are already 5.0 mm in size …..