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The sum of parts is greater than the whole

Donald J. Trump registered the biggest defeat of any winning presidential candidate in US history. If that statement needs reading twice, it is because of the peculiarity of the American…

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The Disunited States of America

Joe Biden has been leading the national and toss-up state polls for a steady seven months now. But when your adversary is the Republican Party in the unpredictable form of…

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Pope says free market, ‘trickle-down’ policies fail society

The COVID-19 pandemic was the latest crisis to prove that market forces alone and “trickle-down” economic policies had failed to produce the social benefits their proponents claim. View and Download…

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Italy Payments Deal Trades Value for State Power

The Italian state has planted its investment flag in another important industry. Local payments group Nexi’s all-share deal to buy state-controlled Sia will create a 15 billion euro domestic champion…

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Big Oil’s Green Rush Needn’t Inflate a Big Bubble

Big Oil has some big numbers to back its renewable energy ambitions. France’s Total is now aiming for 35 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity by 2025, following BP’s recently…

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UK Housing Crisis Needs a Well-Aimed Bazooka

The UK housing market could do with a well-aimed bazooka. Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to help 2 million Britons buy their first home, he declared in a speech on…

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EU Assesses Reforms in Western Balkans and Turkey

The European has published in-depth assessments of fundamental reforms taking place in the West Balkans and Turkey while presenting clearer and more precise recommendations and guidance on the next steps…

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Plastic Packaging Waste: EU Needs to Boost Recycling to Achieve Ambitions

There is a significant risk that the EU will not meet its plastic packaging recycling targets for 2025 and 2030, according to a review by the European Court of Auditors…

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CorporateDispatch PRO Edition 13

Download your free edition of our journal today. The cover story this issue ponders economic advice from an unlikely leader: the head of the Roman Catholic church. Pope Francis is…

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MEPs Defend Rule of Law

Rule of law deficiencies in Member States mean EU funds may be used to undermine European values and in such a context, MEPs are demanding new tools to tackle the…

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Germany Turns 30

Futuristic architecture, a colourful subculture, eclectic cuisine, an intense party scene – Berlin is truly one of the open capitals of the world. Walking though the vibrant streets today is…

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MDB Strengthens Economic Presence to Support Business Regeneration

The Malta Development Bank (MDB) has over the past few months established and maintained a strong presence in the Maltese economy by providing the necessary support to businesses during these…

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Chain Proaction

Some of the most enduring scenes of the coronavirus pandemic involve people battling it out over rolls of toilet paper. The images from supermarkets around the world provided plenty of…

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Who’s fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, and why does it matter?

Fierce fighting has broken out between Azerbaijan and its ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a new and dangerous eruption of a decades-old conflict. View and Download your free edition of…

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A Supply of Optimism

The European surplus of trade in goods swung from €83.5 billion in the first quarter this year to €48.9 billion in the second quarter. Official data shows that the balance…

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Recovery & Resilience Facility

European Economy and Finance Ministers reached a political agreement on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the main instrument of the €750 billion recovery package negotiated by EU leaders in…

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Malta ‘essential partner’ in combatting global threats- US Charge d’Affaires

Malta is an essential partner in combatting global threats, newly-appointed US Chargé d’Affaires Gwendolyn Green told International journal CorporateDispatchPRO. (You can download your free copy here). “Regional security is one of the…

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Mulan flounder previews Hollywood’s next red scare

by PETE SWEENEY VIA REUTERS BREAKINGVIEWS Mulan’s problems preview a coming red scare for Hollywood. Disney was slammed for filming the $200 million movie based on Chinese folklore in the…

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Angst-ridden end to 2020 is written into options

by SWAHA PATTANAIK VIA REUTERS BREAKINGVIEWS Nails bitten to the quick will soon be bitten to the knuckle. The next three months bring a U.S. presidential election, the endgame of…

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Navalny cloud may yield green energy silver lining

by DASHA AFANASIEVA AND GEORGE HAY VIA REUTERS BREAKINGVIEWS Angela Merkel is in an unenviable position. The German chancellor suspects that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok by…

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Financial Services: Covid-19 have heightened liquidity challenges in financial services sector

by KEITH ZAHRA The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA) have issued their first joint risk assessment Report of the financial sector since the outbreak of the Covid-19…

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Migration: New migration pact launched

by KEITH ZAHRA The European Commission proposed a significant overhaul in its migration policy, with the key intention to remedy the continent’s oft-broken migration and asylum rules. It sets out…

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Environment: Upgrade of Single European Sky regulations on the cards

by KEITH ZAHRA The European Commission is proposing an upgrade of the Single European Sky regulatory framework which comes on the heels of the European Green Deal. The objective is…

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The Formosa Strait coming to a simmer

by TONIO GALEA Now that the turmoil in Hong Kong has somewhat subsided, China is turning its attention to what it considers a rebel province – Taiwan. Since the split…

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Malta Insights

LABOUR COSTS UP BY 0.8 PERCENT IN Q2 Hourly labour costs grew by 0.8 percent in the second quarter this year in relation to the same period in 2019. The…

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SOTEU 2020: A Stronger Europe

by KEITH ZAHRA In her State of the Union address on 16 September 2020, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen presented her vision for a Europe that…

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Could you imagine Malta without the EU during the pandemic?

by DENISE GRECH interview with DR. ELENA GRECH EU member states were frozen when the Coronavirus pandemic first hit, European Commission Representation head Elena Grech said. The European Commission was…

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Europe comes into view

by JESMOND SALIBA When the new EU Commission was unveiled in late 2019, a media storm erupted over the appointment of a commissioner for the promotion of the European Way…

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U.S. Supreme Court’s Ginsburg, a liberal dynamo, championed women’s rights

by LAWRENCE HURLEY VIA REUTERS BREAKINGVIEWS Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a heroine to the American left after overcoming entrenched sexism in the legal profession to ascend to the U.S. Supreme…

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Beneath the Bottom Line

by CiConsulta The last decade started with a human, environmental, and financial catastrophe that literally spilled over from a short-sighted decision to cut costs. The BP Deepwater Horizon rig explosion…

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The Last of the Dinosaurs

by Tonio Galea When the coronavirus started ravishing various nations and was declared a global pandemic, there was hope that we might be heading towards a new era of cooperation.…

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Brexit Brinkmanship Revives Risk of Worst Outcome

by Peter Thal Larsen via Reuters Breakingviews The spectre of a chaotic Brexit is back. Less than 11 months after Prime Minister Boris Johnson negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the…

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Comuniq.EU – European Commission

by Keith Zahra New Irish Commissioner appointed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has appointed Mairead McGuinness as the new Irish commissioner in charge of financial stability and capital markets and…

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Comuniq.EU -BREXIT

by Keith Zahra EU-UK tensions escalate as Brexit deadline looms Over the past two weeks, since the resumption of negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom on a…

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Comuniq.EU – Economy

by Keith Zahra European economy suffers double digit shrink Gross domestic product (GDP) in the eurozone shrank by 11.8 percent while the employment rate decreased by 2.9 percent in the…

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Fintech Payment Pioneers Face War on Two Fronts

by Karen Kwok via Reuters Breakingviews Fintech disruptors are starting to get disrupted. Afterpay, an $18 billion Australian “buy now pay later” company, has lost about 10% of its market…

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Comuniq.EU – Environment

by Keith Zahra EU to push for further greenhouse emissions cuts The European Union is set to kickstart discussions next week on how quickly to cut greenhouse gas emissions over the…

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What is Ant Really Worth?

by Robyn Mak via Reuters Breakingviews Valuing Ant is no easy thing. The hype around its initial public offering, combined with a recently restructured business model and unpredictable regulatory environment,…

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The Social Vocation of Business

by Jesmond Saliba For all the slick project management tools and the smart agility techniques, organisations still function in automatic mode most of the time. Much like an ant colony,…

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CorporateDispatchPRO The Journal – Edition 10

A lot is said about Corporate Governance and its importance to sustainable profitability, but in the post-covid world Corporate Governance is redefining the role of the business community in the…

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Home working will delay not kill office recovery

by Aimee Donnellan via Reuters Breakingviews Once bustling European office blocks resemble ghost towns. On the continent, some 75% of them are still empty, according to property experts. Blame working…

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Ireland’s Golfgate can reveal a more responsive EU

by Aimee Donnellan via Reuters Breakingviews The “Double Standards Arms” features in a currently popular Irish video. At this pub, a golfer explains, our 81-person party doesn’t actually break the…

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UK exam U-turn exposes algorithms’ deep flaws

by Richard Beales via Reuters Breakingviews Government U-turns don’t come much bigger. Popular fury forced the abandonment of hypothetical calculations of likely grades for the UK’s national A-level exams this…

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Malta Insights

New business registrations increased by a third in latest report There were 4,216 new business registrations in 2018, 35 percent more than the year before. The latest data on business…

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Comuniq.EU – Trade

by Keith Zahra EU and US agree on first negotiated reductions in duties in more than two decades The European Union and the United States have reached an agreement on…

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Comuniq.EU – Environment

by Keith Zahra EU plans to cut greenhouse emissions further is technically and economically possible A European Union plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 55% below 1990 levels by 2030 is…

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Malta Insights

by Ci Consulta Malta records second-highest employment growth in EU Malta was one of only ten EU states to register an increase in employment in the first quarter of…

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Comuniq.EU RoundUp

by Keith Zahra HEALTH The European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Commission and Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) have launched €64 million EU Malaria Fund, which aims to support feasible and…

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The future of media: more digital and more economic pain, Reuters Institute says

by Guy Faulconbridge via The Reuters Foundation Editing by Stephen Addison The coronavirus outbreak has prompted a significant increase in news consumption, but the economic turmoil is forcing news…

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Brands with a Societal Legacy

by James Vella Clark In a recent article about doing marketing with a mission, published in the Harvard Business Review, the author argues that “brands can and must play…

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CiNext – Reskilling a Nation

by Lawrence Zammit The link between education and the economy is a challenge that any country faces. In a small country like Malta, where the quality of our human resources…

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Making Reskilling Work

by CiConsulta The World Economic Forum estimates that for every job lost to industry 4.0 transformations in the coming years, two new ones will be created. In this scenario, the…

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Kremlin foe’s illness benefits Russian kleptocrats

by Dasha Afanasieva via Reuters Breakingviews Russian anti-corruption activist and politician Alexei Navalny is fighting for his life. His allies say he has been poisoned. His damaging exposés of leading…

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Comuniq.EU – Health

by Keith Zahra Coronavirus: EU continues expanding future vaccines portfolio with new talks The European Commission has concluded exploratory talks with CureVac to purchase a potential vaccine against COVID-19. This…

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ComuniqEU – Foreign Affairs – EU welcomes Libyan ceasefire, calls for resumption of full oil production

by Keith Zahra From CorporateDispatch PRO EU welcomes Libyan ceasefire, calls for resumption of full oil production The EU has welcomed the Libyan ceasefire announced earlier this week. In a…

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CiNext – Reskilling is a social imperative

by Jesmond Saliba From CorporateDispatch PRO The pandemic has knocked down many of our assumptions; the idea of reskilling is not among them. If anything, its relevance has only risen…

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Geopolitics Insights – A Match in the Middle East Tinderbox

by Tonio Galea From CorporateDispatch PRO Amid a resurgence of the Covid-19 virus in many regions around the world and turmoil in Belarus and other countries, the United Arab Emirates…

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