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Report Date 5 Aug 2013 Publicis/Omnicom: regulators and the global market for marketing Nothing raises anti-trust eyebrows like a mega merger, and the proposed Publicis/Omnicom combination last week is certainly that. The deal will have to be approved by competition regulators in Europe... Read more
Report Date 19 Jul 2013 European Banking Union one year on: a guide for non-bankers July 2013 marks one year since European governments committed to the creation of a ‘banking union’ in the EU. In their own way each of the three steps taken by... Read more
Report Date 28 Jun 2013 EU-China solar wars: the political limits of EU 'trade defence' This week EU officials have been in Beijing working out a negotiated settlement to the EU-China dispute over low-price solar panel exports to Europe. The case has seen the European... Read more
Report Date 21 Jun 2013 Nabiullina's Bank of Russia This week Elvira Nabiullina will formally become next governor of the Bank of Russia. Nabiullina is an interesting, and largely unexpected, candidate for the job. She is a low-key Putin... Read more
Report Date 21 Jun 2013 Russia in the WTO: one year on How is WTO membership seen in Russia one year on? To assess how both negative and positive attitudes have evolved in Russia after a year of WTO membership, Global Counsel... Read more
Report Date 24 May 2013 EU-US trade: inflated expectations The European Commission is set to commence the negotiation of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the US. The five year hiatus since the stalling of the WTO Doha... Read more
Report Date 2 May 2013 Glencore and Marubeni Chinese merger policy in practice April was a month for both theory and practice in Chinese international merger clearance. After a long delay, Chinese authorities approved the mergers of Glencore and Xstrata and Gavilon and... Read more
Report Date 19 Apr 2013 The rise of transparency as regulation Two big new EU legislative decisions this month have aligned the EU with the US in creating a strong new precedent for country by country tax and payments reporting requirements... Read more
Report Date 5 Apr 2013 Scotland's Choice On the 18th September 2014 Scotland will hold a referendum on the single question, “Should Scotland become an independent country?”. Campaign activity on both sides is underway, and the debate... Read more
Report Date 27 Mar 2013 Mr. Xi in Moscow Last weekend’s Sino-Russian Summit was Xi Jinping’s first foreign trip as Chinese President. The choice of Moscow was more than symbolism. It was a marker in a rapidly evolving relationship... Read more
Report Date 18 Mar 2013 Bitter lessons of Cyprus The attempt to make Cyprus’ international bailout contingent on an enforced bail-in of Cypriot bank depositors is a serious political gamble for the EU and a gamble on market sentiment... Read more
Report Date 4 Mar 2013 Deutsche Börse unclear futures The European Commission’s rejection of the combination of Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext in 2012 was one of the biggest merger stories of the year. The speculation this week that... Read more
Report Date 26 Feb 2013 The 2013 Italian Election The Italian election of February 24-25 is becoming increasingly hard to call with any certainty, as the centre-right under Silvio Berlusconi continues to close the gap on the centre-left coalition... Read more
Report Date 15 Feb 2013 The costs of the Spanish scandal Spanish politics have taken a dramatic turn in the last fortnight, and one that has not fully registered outside of Spain. Spain’s biggest political scandal of the post-Franco era may... Read more
Report Date 30 Jan 2013 François Hollande and labour market reform January was a month of war and peace in Paris. The same day France committed military forces in Mali, a three month negotiation between France’s employers' federation and its major... Read more
Report Date 22 Jan 2013 China's part in Tom Albanese's downfall Tom Albanese’s departure from Rio Tinto last week was precipitated by substantial write downs in Rio Tinto’s aluminium businesses. Rather than just a case of a badly-timed bet on the... Read more
Report Date 8 Jan 2013 A very British split: the UK Banking Reform Bill This week the UK government has published draft legislation that will restructure British banks on significantly different terms than the rest of Europe and the US, and on terms that... Read more
Report Date 21 Dec 2012 US trade policy and politics in 2013 The granting of the Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to Russia by the US last week is probably the most significant US trade policy development in a year when... Read more