The name eagle (Adler) had earned it almost 150 years ago by building the fastest bicycles in the world, and from then on its Frankfurt factory was synonymous with greatness, power and modernity. Until it also became a speculative object, and the management began to play with
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In the West, we believe in an efficient, orderly, innovative, welcoming, open Japan, the child of a tradition based on a strict code of honour and a genuine spirit of service – the creators of the corporate identity concept. Well, this picture of a country of hard-working,
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He pays himself a trip as an astronaut, builds electric cars, competes with NASA to conquer space, wants to connect computers directly to our brains, buys Twitter to become the world’s most influential politician, and then has second thoughts because his partners get nervous and threaten to
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The series of articles published in collaboration between Gli Stati Generali and IBI World is really starting to hurt. On 28 June, in Brussels, the General Meeting of Shareholders of Nyrstar NV (a mining company about which we wrote in January – https://ibiworld.eu/en/nyrstar-the-agony-of-the-giant-in-the-claws-of-trafigura/) is taking place: a
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The 2022 invasion of Ukraine has opened a season of economic sanctions against Russia, the most important of which affect gas and oil exports. Contrary to the West’s hopes, these sanctions are putting the European Union, increasingly divided internally, in dire straits, with galloping inflation and the
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Mexico is a lush nation, rich in subsoil – and yet it is a very poor nation: a state continually overwhelmed by riots, massacres by criminal gangs and rebel armies, with a weak and corrupt central government, which settles contentious issues by shooting at crowds. What unites
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In many countries, corruption is not prosecuted, resulting in the silent anger of a large part of the population and the ignorance of most. One of the most striking cases is that of Finland, a country in which the political elite is strongly compromised with financial and
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As the Latins and American Indians used to say, it is the name that forges destiny, and Evergrande’s name seems to have been made for the group that was aiming to be the largest construction industry in the history of mankind. It is a western name for
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The Industrial Revolution changed the world. This change started simultaneously with the intensive exploitation of mines, the birth of factories and the development of engines. Belgium is not only part of this history: it is one of the great architects – of the places where it all
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In the last ten years, six governments have led Italy. These six governments are responsible for causing a possibly unsolvable crisis in the Italian fishing industry: and they have done so out of incompetence and sloth. While Matteo Renzi’s dreams of new drilling died with the referendum
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