A pervasive dilemma for public funded trade and investment agencies when they are asked by their clients to recommend a service provider is how to maintain independence and impartiality and…
In the week that Lionel Messi submitted a transfer request to Barcelona, Nick Watson looks at the parallels between attracting foreign footballers and securing foreign direct investment (FDI). The world’s…
United won an entertaining Manchester derby by two goals to nothing. Now, a little more than three months later, that date of March 8th seems like a lifetime ago: the…
As my 4-year-old niece pronounced on a Zoom call earlier this week, “Aunty, the world is different now”. Indeed it is: governments around the world are announcing bailouts; venturing to…
With 750,000 companies filed for government support during the corona crisis and a dire IMF forecast of -7.0% GDP growth, Germany’s economy is clearly taking a severe hit in…
This time last year, I was standing in front of my European colleagues in the conference room of a hotel in Strasbourg where we were hosting our annual corporate retreat.…
