Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has met with senior US government representatives in Washington for rare security policy talks. The talks included US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and the head of the East Asia Department, Daniel Kritenbrink, Taiwanese news agency CNA reported. China protested Wednesday against the United […]
Negotiations within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about a digital tax – a tax on internet giants such as Google, Meta and Amazon – have stalled due to opposition from the United States, among others. That is what the French Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, […]
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, says late 2023 will be “good timing” to find a new CEO for the company. Musk indicates that Twitter’s organization needs to be more stable and financially sound, with a clear product roadmap. According to Reuters, he said that in response to a question […]
The European Commission is less pessimistic about the economic outlook in the EU this year than in the autumn. She expects an average growth of 0.9 percent for the eurozone. However, in November, it still averaged 0.3 percent and feared a recession in the months around the turn of the […]
Small British companies may have received 640 million pounds in corona loans when they were not entitled to them. This was reported by the British state-owned bank British Business Bank. These companies received a loan through the Bounce Back Loan Scheme, which compensated small British companies for loss of income […]
In the United Kingdom, nurses and paramedics were laid off from work en masse on Monday. They demand more pay. More than 100,000 male nurses and 10,000 paramedics are on strike on Monday. It is the largest strike ever within the National Health Service (NHS), the overarching British health system. […]
Energy group TotalEnergies and chemical company Air Liquide will build a network of more than a hundred hydrogen stations for trucks in Europe. In the coming years, the filling stations must be placed along major roads in Benelux, Germany and France. The companies say they are pooling their knowledge to […]
The German economy contracted slightly in the last quarter of 2022. In the fourth quarter, the largest economy in the eurozone had to contend with, among other things, a decline in consumer spending after three-quarters of growth. This was reported by the German statistics agency Destatis based on a new […]
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has admitted he made “some mistakes” during his mandate. This is evident from a video published on Monday. “Every day was Monday for four years. There were indeed some defects, but that makes sense. We made certain mistakes,” Bolsonaro told supporters in the United States. […]
The purchasing power crisis will be the most significant global risk in the next two years. This is according to a report by the World Economic Forum. Next week the organisation’s annual meeting will take place in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF surveyed more than 1,200 politicians, business people, and civil […]
