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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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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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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There are names of huge, powerful multinational companies that hardly anyone has ever heard of – like Trafigura. There are sprawling hydras, made up of hundreds of companies in tax havens, whose real owners may not be known, but are estimated to be the 700 managers who
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You better believe it: Zambia is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Explorer David Livingstone, who described this land, said: “Such beautiful places have been created to soften the sight of angels in flight[1]“. A lush nature, a mild climate, a fertile and generous
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It all started with a small local scandal, in a country, Zambia, which is one of the poorest and least known in the world and which has only experienced economic growth in the last twenty years thanks to the mining industry[1]. However, the country has remained what
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You could easily be fooled into thinking that the individual pictured above is some dystopian hero, maybe from the next Mad Max film or some other science fiction nightmare. This man is certainly no hero, but neither is he a villain. He is a mercenary, and just
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