... Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned after losing a key referendum vote, while US President-elect Donald Trump criticized China’s currency and trade policies via Twitter. The stock trading l ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has announced that he will resign after suffering a resounding defeat in a referendum over constitutional reform. That leaves the eurozone's third largest economy i ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
... spent his prime years in the US, high school in New York City and undergraduate years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then remained and worked in Boston. He converted to Catholicism a ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-05
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York in November was an important diplomatic event but it was Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, who was the f ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-05
... that his prime minister, Manuel Valls, will throw his hat in the ring to take part in the Socialist primaries in January. "In doing this, I'm facing my responsibilities," Hollande said in his address ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-02
... terms as prime minister, may not have engaged in sufficient outreach to the country’s Sunnis but that is only one reason why Sunni radicalism persists in Iraq. Another is that some elements of Iraq’s ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-01
... e fall of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's government. The United Kingdom has to produce a plan to guide a credible and orderly Brexit process. In France, the far-right National Front's Marine Le Pen wil ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-29
... economy”. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan has said that it would be “meaningless” for the 11 other countries to proceed since the TPP would be “meaningless” without US participation. Indeed, from t ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-28
... In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has also linked his broader reform program to the passage of the TPP. Since the pact requires that, by economic weight, at least 85 percent of the signatories must ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-28
... nother ex-prime minister, Alain Juppe, Reuters reports. "I must now convince the whole country our project is the only one that can lift us up," Fillon said at his campaign headquarters after Juppe co ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-28
... ngapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and this speaks volumes about the state of judicial independence and free speech in the Lion City. The incumbent leader, and his late father Lee Kuan Yew, wag ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-24
... e, former prime minister Francois Fillon has become the conservatives' nominee for the presidential election in that country, facing off with Alain Juppe, another ex-prime minister. Various polls have ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. However, there's something odd about him – he sports Hitler's signature moustache while bowing dejectedly. Behind him is an image commemorating the September 18 i ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
India is grappling with a new challenge after Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the country's larger banknotes withdrawn from circulation. The order, aimed at fighting corruption and tax evasion, h ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
... ngapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, a TPP supporter, is now calling on countries in the region to boost trade by backing the China-led RCEP and other initiatives. “There are still other pathway ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
... sea after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong unveiled an aggressive plan for further reclamation. On the other hand, Hong Kong’s fancy plans for land production off eastern Lantau Island, dubbed “East Lan ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-22
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. With Obama, they noticed that Xi had a wide grin. Xi had a dark face and refused to be photographed with Abe in 2014, reflecting the depth of tensions between thei ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-22
... ger their prime concern when it comes to deciding who to vote for. It is by no means that Hong Kong could be immune to the rise of “post-truth politics”. Thirdly, Trump's victory was also to a certain ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-21
... w Zealand Prime Minister John Key in a round table on Saturday. In parallel, China has been selling an alternate vision for regional trade by promoting the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-21
