The European Parliament has approved an EU-wide ban on the sale of single-use plastic products, such as plates, cutlery, straws, cotton buds. This ban that will come to effect in 2021 was supported by a vast majority of 560 ..
In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, things seemed to be looking up for the renminbi. By the middle of 2015, almost 30% of China’s trade was being settled in renminbi; Hong Kong banks were holding some RMB 1 ..
An unassuming conference on “Peace in the Middle East”, held in Poland in mid February, epitomised the split between the EU and the United States over how to address the challenges emanating from Iran. The differences in ..
The European Union is concerned about the newly sent “specialists” that have been dispatched by Russia to Venezuela allegedly under a military cooperation deal. Moscow said that there was no threat to regional stability ..
The European Commission fined the popular American brand Nike 12.5 million euros earlier this week for forbidding traders to sell licenses merchandise of some of best-known European football clubs to other countries with the ..