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How will the US – Iran tension escalation impact oil prices?

The killing of Iran’s most revered military leader could be more impactful for the oil market than other recent incidents that have just temporarily spiked crude prices. Iranian General Soleimani,…

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Do we have time for physical activity?

It's a standard in the Corporate world, that many busy executives set one of their New Year’s resolutions to primarily focus and find more time to exercise. The New York Times…

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ArcelorMittal – a reminder of the woes of Italy’s politics and economy

Italy’s government and the factory’s foreign operator, the steel giant ArcelorMittal, are engaged in a high-stakes fight over the plant’s future. The plant’s closing could have ramifications for the stability…

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Who was the Iranian general killed in the US airstrike?

Al Jazeera gives an in-depth look at the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC's) Quds Force was killed early on Friday alongside six others following a US air raid at…

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CiConsulta GeoPolitics 2020 Forecasts – The WTO will become ineffective

As of the end of December 2019, the WTO will no longer be able to resolve disputes between its members due to a lack of judges on its appellate body.…

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CiConsulta GeoPolitics 2020 Forecasts – Iran could well leave the nuclear deal in 2020

The JCPOA, or Iran nuclear deal as its more popularly known, is beginning to run its course. The US has left the deal, and the European Union has not been…

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CiConsulta Geopolitics 2020 Forecasts – China will become even more assertive

What does it take to become a superpower? We don’t have enough time (or space in this article) to get into that in detail, but in short it takes three…

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BrusselsViewPoint Europe’s 2019 Moments – The Rise and Fall of Joseph Muscat

Denise Grech takes a glimpse at the most memorable moments in Europe this year. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat started 2019 on a high – he was leading one of the…

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BrusselsViewPoint Europe’s 2019 Moments – Austria’s Ibiza-Gate

Denise Grech takes a glimpse at the most memorable moments in Europe this year. Ibiza-gate was a political scandal in Austria where the then chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache and…

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Vladimir Putin’s 20 years on the Geopolitical Centre Stage

Boris Yeltsin had a reputation for the sensational and the unpredictable, from ordering tanks to shell a rebellious Russian parliament to drunkenly hunting for pizza in Washington in his underwear. But he…

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CiConsulta GeoPolitics 2020 Forecasts – Trump will lose his reelection bid

This is a big call, and one that I will not be fully confident in until we are certain of who Trump will be facing from the Democratic Party, which…

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CiConsulta Geopolitics 2020 Forecast – The EU will become more outward looking, but just a little bit

For the first time in a long time, the new European Commission will look to flex its muscles outside of Europe’s borders by becoming a truly ‘geopolitical commission’. The problem…

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BrusselsViewPoint Europe’s 2019 Moments – Nigel Farage’s launch of the Brexit party

Denise Grech takes a glimpse at the most memorable moments in Europe this year. “I know what I’m going to do,” Farage told supporters in April. “I’m going to set…

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Brussels ViewPoint 2019 European Moments

Denise Grech takes a glimpse at the most memorable moments in Europe this year. Austria’s Ibiza-gate Ibiza-gate was a political scandal in Austria where the then chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian…

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What to expect in 2020’s geopolitical scenario – Matthew Bugeja

2019 was quite the year. Looking back, there have been a few surprises. But I have been writing these geopolitical forecasts for about six years, and I cannot say that…

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‘The Protestor’ voted Corporate Dispatch Person of the Year

From Bolivia to Lebanon to Ethiopia to Malta itself, people are taking to the streets to protest. Protests where angry citizens have swelled the streets of cities across the globe…

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A decade which was far too long in British politics

As the decade began, Gordon Brown was ensconced in Downing Street and preparing to fight his first general election. Having succeeded Tony Blair following years of tensions between them, the former…

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Importance of Intrapeneurs for a thriving business

Companies that become complacent and fail to create cultures where employees can be creative are going to be left behind and go out of business. And the benefits of intrapreneurial…

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The Culture of Indifference – A Christmas Lament

The nativity scenes across churches and homes this Christmas season inspires love and hope. But for those who follow the international news, it is hard not to think about the…

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Was Trump’s impeachment a good or bad idea?

Donald Trump was officially impeached by the House of Representatives, more or less along partisan lines, in the past few days. It did not come as a shock to most,…

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Diplomatique.Expert – Views of Christmas from around the world

From India to Australia, from Brazil to Syria, from Germany to Italy, this week's edition of the Diplomatique.Expert Week journal provides you with views and photos captured by our…

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How Managers Can Truly Inspire Their Teams

As a manager, you have an important responsibility to maintain the morale of your team. They want to feel seen, heard and appreciated. But this isn't always possible if you…

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Analysis – Romania’s unfinished revolution

It was December 21 1989, and the wave of change that had swept across communist eastern Europe was crashing through Romania, where Nicolae Ceausescu had held an iron grip for…

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Analysis – Slovakia’s journalist murder trial probe’s country state corruption

POLITICO reports that the killing last year of Ján Kuciak, 27, and Martina Kušnírová sparked the largest public demonstrations Slovakia had seen since the end of communism in 1989. Prime…

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Analysing the Turkish interest in Libya

It should never have been far from the headlines, since the suffering of the Libyan people has never really subsided following the collapse of the regime of Muammar Ghaddafi. Some…

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A lament for the landline

This is a lament for the landline, a rhapsody for its dial tone, a hymn to the way it connected people. It’s the little things we miss. The landline was…

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Rumination converts pressure intro stress

Pressure is not stress. But the former is converted to the latter when you add one ingredient: rumination, the tendency to keep rethinking past or future events, while attaching negative emotion to those thoughts.…

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How to overcome your 3 AM work thoughts

Many of us think about work outside of the office — that’s where some of our best ideas emerge. However, thinking about work often means stressing about work, which can…

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Analysis – UK elections amplifies the City versus Town / Metropolis vs Periphery divide

There is a striking similarity between the seismic shift in British politics that enthroned Boris Johnson last week and the Yellow Jacket rebellion that tried to depose President Emmanuel Macron…

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The CorporateDispatch Diplomatique.Expert Week Journal

The news, views and geopolitical insights for the week that was, covering the main news from around the world with insights on the Yemeni conflict, the future of the Euro…

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The challenges facing the euro

There has been a change in the guard in Europe. With very little in the way of fanfare, Christine Lagarde replaced Mario Draghi as the head of the European Central…

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Yemen – The Forgotten Conflict

Amid the European Union's Brexit, the United States impeachment and other issues that dominate the international headlines, there is what one might call the world's forgotten conflict: Yemen, the Arab…

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Brussels View Point on the Eu Council -Climate crisis and silence on Malta

The EU council met this week to discuss climate change and the bloc’s budget. But delegations across the EU could not resist bringing up the upheaval in Malta. The country…

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Is NATO still relevant?

This article by GeoPolitics Advisor Matthew Bugeja appeared first on MaltaToday n order to face the challenges of the 21st century, its members need to figure out what NATO stands…

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New tensions between Iran & the US

Animosity between the US & Iran is certainly not any thing new. The Iranian regime and the Americans have been at loggerheads ever since the overthrow of the Shah in…

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NATO, Macron and the Donald

Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump got together at the NATO summit in London this week, after the former called the intergovernmental military alliance ‘brain dead’. It was bound to be…

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Clothing the naked truth

Never before has mankind had so much access to news and information. And yet, never in history has the threat to freedom of information been so great. Apart from the…

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U.S. military has enough capability in Middle East for now

U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper said he believed the U.S. military had sufficient capability in the Middle East for now to deter conflict, dismissing a media report that a major…

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Corporate Dispatch – Diplomatique.Expert Week – 24.11.2019

Malta regained its spot on the global news agenda following the dramatic developments in the investigations related to the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The arrest of the businessman Yorgen…

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Morals, money and power: the EU’s (in)action in Iran

Over 100 protesters were killed by Iranian government forces this week, after the government there hiked up petrol prices by a soaring 50 per cent. The move is directly tied…

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GeoPolitics Insight – An Iranian hornet nest

Iran is currently being stirred by growing protests mainly over economic stagnation clutching the country. This nothing entirely new. Between 2017–2018 Iran passed through a somewhat similar situation on an…

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GeoPolitical Insight – Israel in dire (political) straits – Matthew Bugeja

Benjamin Netanyahu has been at the forefront of Israeli politics for close to a decade, having won his first term as Prime Minister in 2009. A well-spoken, if considerably strongman…

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The world in protest

This article by Tonio Galea appeared for the first time on Corporate Dispatch weekly geopolitical insights journal 'Diplomatique.Expert' published on November 16th 2019. From Bolivia to Lebanon to Ethiopia,…

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Pete Buttigieg makes waves in Democratic primaries

This article by Matthew Bugeja appeared first on the Corporate Dispatch Weekly Geopolitical journal 'Diplomatique.Expert' published on November 16th 2019. Let me start off by saying to all those who have…

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The Corporate Dispatch Week & Diplomatique.Expert Journal – 16th November 2019

The US Presidential Campaign elections' star of the week was Pete Buttigieg. His ascent the top of the Iowa polls were given a lot of importance. Given its role as the first state to…

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The Fall of The Wall – 30 years later: understanding the meaning of freedom, then, today and tomorrow

For many of you here, the Berlin wall simply brings to mind the extreme measures communist rule went to, to define its own boundaries and to exert control on freedom…

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Why the polls won’t predict the UK election outcome

This article appeared first in this week's edition of Corporate Dispatch Diplomatique.Expert Week. UK parties have launched their election campaigns this week after an election date was set…

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America Pulls Out Of The Paris Accords

This article appeared first on Corporate Dispatch's Diplomatique.Expert Week journal. Last Monday, the 4th of November, the US filed paperwork in order to initiate the process for it to leave…

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In the ruins of the wall

This article appeared first on the Corporate Dispatch Diplomatique.Expert Week Journal. Thirty years after its sensational fall, it is somewhat hard to quantify what the Berlin Wall meant. The division…

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Photo Story: Marine Air Ground Task Force Warfighting Exercise

A series of photos of US marines during an air-ground task force war fighting exercise at the Range 220 combat centre in Twentynine Palms, California, USA. The exercise divides soldiers…

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The day the Berlin Wall came down

Deutsche Welle correspondent Marcel Fürstenau gives a look at the events and aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago. Fürstenau states that the Cold War, a…

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Iran has ‘military advantage over US and allies in Middle East’

Iran now has an effective military advantage over the US and its allies in the Middle East because of its ability to wage war using third parties such as Shia…

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Thirty years after fall of Berlin Wall, hard borders are back around the world

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, when thousands of Germans joyfully danced atop its graffiti-covered remains, to some heralded the “end of history” in a globalized world. Thirty…

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Europe Explained – Brexit and Berlaymont: Brussels in limbo – BrusselsViewpoint – Denise Grech

This article appeared first on The Corporate Dispatch Week, published on November 2nd 2019 The last few months of 2019 were meant to be fast-paced, exciting times for the EU:…

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GeoPolitical Insight – The sun sets on the legacy of the fall of the Berlin Wall -Matthew Bugeja

This article appeared first on The Corporate Dispatch Week, published on November 2nd 2019 The fall of the Berlin Wall on the 9th of November, 1989 was a defining moment in…

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Geopolitical Insight – Has ISIS been stopped dead? – Tonio Galea

This article appeared first on The Corporate Dispatch Week, published on November 2nd 2019 The order by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw troops supporting the Kurdish fighters in Syria…

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The Week That Was…

This article appeared first on The Corporate Dispatch Week, published on November 2nd 2019 This week news cycle started with President Trump delivering a nationally televised address that American forces targeted…

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